PAES: Australian Government Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements

The 2024-25 and 2025-26 Portfolio Additional Estimates Statements (PAES) detail changes to the Australian Government's proposed resource allocation after the initial budget. These documents inform Parliament and provide line-item financial data, including appropriations by portfolio, agency, outcome, and program. The data is structured to support analysis of funding adjustments for entities seeking additional resources through supplementary appropriation bills.

Use Cases

• Tracking changes in departmental funding based on the 'Appropriation type' and 'Expense type' columns.
• Analyzing multi-year budget forecasts for specific programs using the fiscal year columns (e.g., 2024-25 to 2028-29).
• Comparing resource allocation across government portfolios and agencies listed in the 'Portfolio' and 'Agency Name' fields.

Strengths

• Provides official government data under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Includes a multi-year forecast horizon, with columns for five fiscal years from 2024-25 to 2028-29.
• Structured as a line-item CSV with detailed dimensions like Portfolio, Agency, Outcome, and Program.

Limitations

• Column names and structure are only described for the 2025-26 data; the 2024-25 data's schema is unspecified.
• The dataset does not include sub-totals and totals present in the original source documents, requiring programmatic calculation.
• Metadata for size and row counts is consistently missing across all platform entries.

Provenance

Source

Australian Government Department of Finance.

Collection Method

Published as part of the official budget process and tabled in Parliament.

Time Range

2024-25 to 2028-29 (forecast periods).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18.

Geography

Australia.