Resources are allocated by the Australian Government to the department every year as part of the budget process to enable the department to carry out the work necessary to achieve its purpose. The annual appropriation for each of the financial years covered by this corporate plan is set out in the department’s Portfolio Budget Statements for 2015-16 and summarised in the tables at Appendix 1. The tables in Appendix 1 include an indication of the number of people working in the department on each activity, expressed in terms of full-time equivalent (FTE) staff. Departmental appropriations are expected to remain relatively static in 2015-16 and 2016-17 before declining slightly in 2017-18 and 2018-19.