Key points
The purpose of the 3 Appropriation Bills is to release money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the annual services of the Government.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2023–24 seeks to appropriate $146.2 billion for the ordinary services of Government.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2023–24 seeks to appropriate $28.2 billion for other services of Government.
- Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2023–24 seeks to appropriate $314.5 million for the parliamentary departments.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2022–23 seeks to appropriate $5.6 billion for the ordinary services of Government for measures announced since the October 2022–23 Budget that require funding in 2022–23.
- Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2022–23 seeks to appropriate $164.4 million for other services of Government for measures announced since the October 2022–23 Budget that require funding in 2022–23.
- Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2022–23 seeks to appropriate $560,000 for the Department of the House of Representatives to support an IT transition project, which requires funding in 2022–23.
Introductory Info
Date introduced: 9 May 2023
House: House of Representatives
Portfolio: Finance
Commencement: Various dates as set out in the body of this Bills Digest.
Purpose of the Bills
The purpose of Appropriation Bills (the Bills) is to
release money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) for the annual services
of the Government.
Appropriation
Bill (No. 1) 2023–24
The purpose of the Appropriation
Bill (No. 1) 2023–24 (the No. 1 Bill) is to seek an appropriation from the
CRF of $146,174,564,000 ($146.2 billion)[1]
for the ordinary services of Government. Of the appropriation sought in the No.
1 Bill:
- $70,154,828,000
($70.2 billion) is for the departmental activities of government entities[2]
- $76,019,736,000
($76.0 billion) is for the activities that government entities administer on
behalf of the Commonwealth Government.[3]
The No. 1 Bill commences on the later of 1 July 2023 and
Royal Assent.
Appropriation
Bill (No. 2) 2023–24
The purpose of the Appropriation
Bill (No. 2) 2023–24 (the No. 2 Bill) is to seek an appropriation from the
CRF of $28,182,598,000 ($28.2 billion)[4]
for the other services of Government. Of the appropriation sought in the No. 2
Bill:
- $1,031,289,000
($1.0 billion) is for payments to states, territories and local governments[5]
- $27,151,309,000
($27.2 billion) is for non-operating activities.[6]
The No. 2 Bill commences on the later of 1 July 2023 and
Royal Assent.
Appropriation
(Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2023–24
The purpose of the Appropriation
(Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 1) 2023–24 (the Parliamentary
Departments No. 1 Bill) is to seek an appropriation from the CRF of $314,465,000
($314.5 million)[7]
for the parliamentary departments. Of the appropriation sought in the Parliamentary
Departments No. 1 Bill:
- $252,878,000
($252.9 million) is for the departmental activities of parliamentary
departments[8]
- $6,387,000
($6.4 million) is for the administrative functions of parliamentary departments[9]
- $55,200,000
($55.2 million) is for the non-operating expenses of the Department of
Parliamentary Services.[10]
The Parliamentary Departments No. 1 Bill commences on the
later of 1 July 2023 and Royal Assent.
Appropriation
Bill (No. 3) 2022–23
The purpose of the Appropriation
Bill (No. 3) 2022–23 (the No. 3 Bill) is to seek an appropriation from the
CRF of an additional $5,509,802,000 ($5.6 billion)[11]
for the ordinary services of Government in the 2022–23 financial year. Of the
appropriation sought in the No. 3 Bill:
- $2,444,055,000
($2.4 billion) is for the departmental activities of government entities[12]
- $3,065,747,000
($3.1 billion) is for the activities that government entities administer on
behalf of the Commonwealth Government.[13]
These amounts are in addition to amounts appropriated by:
The No. 3 Bill commences on Royal Assent.
Appropriation
Bill (No. 4) 2022–23
The purpose of the Appropriation
Bill (No. 4) 2022–23 (the No. 4 Bill) is to seek an appropriation from the
CRF of an additional $164,348,000 ($164.3 million)[14]
for the other services of Government in the 2022–23 financial year, which is
all for non-operating activities.[15]
These amounts are in addition to
amounts appropriated by:
The No. 4 Bill commences on Royal Assent.
Appropriation
(Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2022–23
The purpose of the Appropriation
(Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2022–23 (the Parliamentary
Departments No. 2 Bill) is to seek an appropriation from the CRF of an
additional $560,000 ($0.6 million)[16]
for the parliamentary departments in the 2022–23 financial year, which is all
departmental funding for the Department of the House of Representatives.[17]
These amounts are in addition to amounts appropriated by:
The Parliamentary Departments No. 2 Bill commences on
Royal Assent.
Structure
of the Bills
Part 1 of each Bill deals with preliminary matters,
including when the Acts commence, and how to interpret the Acts.
Part 2 of each Bill outlines the quantum and types of
appropriation from the CRF.
Part 3 of the No. 1 and No. 2 Bill establish the Advance
to the Finance Minister (AFM) for 2023–24, whereas Part 3 of the Parliamentary
Departments No. 1 Bill establishes the Advance to the responsible Presiding
Officer for 2023–24.
Part 4 of both the No. 1 Bill and the Parliamentary
Departments No. 1 Bill, Part 5 of the No. 2 Bill, and Part 3 of the No. 3, No.
4 and Parliamentary Departments No. 2 Bill deal with technical matters
including crediting amounts to special accounts, the formal appropriation of
moneys from the CRF, and the subsequent automatic repeal of the Acts.
Part 4 of the No. 2 Bill sets the maximum amounts that can
be drawn each year from the CRF for grants that the Commonwealth makes to the
states and territories under the Federal Financial
Relations Act 2009. These limits are known as ‘debit limits’.
Schedule 1 of the No. 2 Bill nominates the Ministers who
are able to impose conditions on grants of financial assistance to the states
and territories proposed in that Bill.
Schedule 1 of the No. 1 Bill, the Parliamentary
Departments No. 1 Bill, the No. 3 Bill, the No. 4 Bill and the Parliamentary
Departments No. 2 Bill and Schedule 2 of the No. 2 Bill contain the details of
the amounts and types of appropriation to be made to each entity.
Background
About
appropriations
An appropriation is the legal release of monies from the
CRF.[18]
Appropriation Acts, however, do not create a source of power for the
Commonwealth to spend money; they merely release that money from the CRF. The
Commonwealth’s power to spend money must be found in other parts of the Constitution.[19]
Under the terms of the Constitution, there are
certain unique requirements that a Bill proposing to appropriate monies from
the CRF must satisfy.
Constitutional
requirements
Section 81 of the Constitution provides:
All revenues or moneys raised or received by the Executive
Government of the Commonwealth shall form one Consolidated Revenue Fund, to be
appropriated for the purposes of the Commonwealth …
Section 83 of the Constitution provides that no
money may be withdrawn from the CRF ‘except under appropriation made by law’.
The effect of these two sections is that all money received by the Commonwealth
must be paid into the CRF, and must not be spent before there is an appropriation
authorising specific expenditure.
There are two main types of Acts containing
appropriations:
- annual
Appropriation Acts are those that provide funding to Commonwealth entities,
such as Departments, to undertake ongoing government activities in a specific
year. These appropriations are limited to the amount set out in the
Appropriation Act[20]
- Acts
that include special appropriations provide authority to spend money for
specific purposes (for example, to finance particular projects or provide
social security payments). The authority and criteria to appropriate are not
set out in the annual appropriation Acts, but rather Acts that authorise
Government to expend money from the CRF for specified purposes, for example,
the Social
Security (Administration) Act 1999.[21]
The Financial Framework
(Supplementary Powers) Act 1997 provides general powers for the
Commonwealth to approve certain types of expenditures, such as grants, or for
the Commonwealth to set up companies.[22]
This provides a general coverage for appropriations in instances where no other
Act provides the authority. A list of programs and entities covered by these
powers are provided in the Financial Framework
(Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997.[23]
Powers of
the House of Representatives to appropriate
Section 53 of the Constitution provides that laws
appropriating money may not originate in the Senate. Further, under section 56
of the Constitution, all proposed laws for the appropriation of money
may only be passed following a recommendation by the Governor-General. By
convention the Governor-General acts only upon the advice of the Executive so,
in practice, section 56 prevents non-government members of the House of
Representatives introducing Bills that would propose to appropriate money from
the CRF.[24]
Powers of
the Senate to amend
The Senate may not amend proposed laws appropriating
revenue or money for the ordinary annual services of the Government. The Senate
may, however, return to the House of Representatives any such proposed laws
requesting, by message, the omission or amendment of any items or provisions.[25]
The Senate may amend proposed laws appropriating revenue
or money for purposes other than for the ordinary annual services of the
Government, as long as it does not ‘increase any proposed charge or burden on
the people’.[26]
Conceivably, the Senate could amend an Appropriation Bill for the other
services of Government to, for example, redirect the proposed appropriation to
another purpose, or reduce the proposed appropriation to nil. The Senate may
also request that, if new measures are included in a Bill for the ‘ordinary
annual services of Government’, the Bill be returned to the House with a
message requesting those new measures be omitted from the Bill.
The
‘ordinary annual services of government’ versus the ‘other services of
government’
Section 54 of the Constitution requires a separate
law appropriating funds for the ‘ordinary annual services of government’, and
that other matters must not be dealt with in the same Bill. However, what
constitutes the ‘ordinary annual services of the Government’ and ‘other’
services of the Government is not defined in the Constitution.
A working distinction between ordinary and other annual
services was agreed in a ‘Compact’ between the Senate and the Government in
1965.[27]
Several amendments have been made to the Compact since 1965 and, in 2010, the
Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations and Staffing recommended the Senate
restate the Compact in a consolidated form.[28]
On 22 June 2010, the Senate resolved as follows:
(1) To
reaffirm its constitutional right to amend proposed laws appropriating revenue
or moneys for expenditure on all matters not involving the ordinary annual
services of the Government.
(2) That
appropriations for expenditure on:
(a) the
construction of public works and buildings;
(b) the
acquisition of sites and buildings;
(c) items of
plant and equipment which are clearly definable as capital expenditure (but not
including the acquisition of computers or the fitting out of buildings);
(d) grants to
the states under section 96 of the Constitution;
(e) new
policies not previously authorised by special legislation;
(f) items
regarded as equity injections and loans; and
(g) existing
asset replacement (which is to be regarded as depreciation),
are not appropriations for the ordinary annual services of
the Government and that proposed laws for the appropriation of revenue or
moneys for expenditure on the said matters shall be presented to the Senate in
a separate appropriation bill subject to amendment by the Senate.
(3) That, in
respect of payments to international organisations:
(a) the
initial payment in effect represents a new policy decision and therefore should
be in Appropriation Bill (No. 2); and
(b) subsequent
payments represent a continuing government activity of supporting the international
organisation and therefore represent an ordinary annual service and should be in
Appropriation Bill (No. 1).
(4) That all appropriation items for continuing activities
for which appropriations have been made in the past be regarded as part of
ordinary annual services.[29]
Adherence to the Compact has not always been strict, and
the High Court of Australia has held that any disagreements between the Houses
on such Bills are not justiciable.[30]
Any disputes are to be determined between the Houses themselves.
Departmental
and administered expenses
Australian Accounting Standard 1050 Administered Items
requires that government agencies distinguish between revenues and expenses
that they administer for the Government, and those over which they have some
control.[31]
Generally, administered expenses are the costs of programs that agencies run
for the Government, while departmental expenses are the costs incurred in
running agencies.[32]
Appropriation Bills, therefore, distinguish between
‘administered’ expenses and ‘departmental’ expenses. An administered
appropriation may be used only for the program or outcome that it is
appropriated for, while a departmental appropriation may be moved between
different departmental activities.[33]
Outcomes
and programs
While the level of detail necessary for an Appropriation
Act to be valid is generally low,[34]
in the Pharmaceutical Benefits case the High Court held:
… there cannot be appropriations in blank, appropriations for
no designated purpose, merely authorising expenditure ...[35]
The Appropriation Bills must, therefore, also describe—in
general terms—what the moneys are to be utilised for. The Bills use four
methods for describing the purposes of the proposed appropriations.
Appropriations
for ‘outcomes’ of non-corporate Commonwealth entities
For non-corporate Commonwealth entities, the purposes of
operating appropriations (both departmental and administered) are specified
with reference to the ‘outcomes’ of those entities. The Department of Finance
explains ‘outcome statements’ in the following terms:
An outcome statement articulates the intended results,
activities and target group of an Australian Government entity. An outcome
statement serves three main purposes within the financial framework:
- to explain and control the
purposes for which annual appropriations are approved by the Parliament for use
by entities
- to provide a basis for annual
budgeting, including (financial) reporting against the use of appropriated
funds
- to measure and assess entity and
program non-financial performance in contributing to Government policy
objectives.[36]
Appropriations
for corporate Commonwealth entities
As corporate Commonwealth entities are legally distinct
from the Commonwealth itself, money cannot be appropriated directly to those
entities.[37]
Instead, amounts are appropriated to relevant Departments for on-payment to
corporate Commonwealth entities within Departments’ portfolios.
Non-operating
appropriations
Non-operating appropriations are amounts designated for
the capital needs of entities. Typically, these amounts are equity injections
into entities, or money for the purchase or development of the assets of
entities. Under the Compact, they can only ever be proposed in a Bill dealing
with the ‘other’ annual services of Government.
Appropriations
for payments to the states
Under section 96 of the Constitution, the
Commonwealth may make payments to the states with or without conditions, and
amounts intended for payments to the states are identified separately. Again,
because of the Compact, amounts to the states can only ever be proposed in a
Bill dealing with the ‘other’ annual services of Government. Amounts to the
Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory are also included with
the amounts for the states.
Advances to
the Finance Minister and the Presiding Officers
The Advance to the Finance Minister is an appropriation of
money without any particular outcome or purpose specified.
The Finance Minister may use the amount appropriated as an
advance to modify the schedule to the Appropriation Act, but only where:
… the Finance Minister is satisfied that there is an urgent
need for expenditure, in the current year, that is not provided for, or is
insufficiently provided for, […]:
(a) because of
an erroneous omission or understatement; or
(b) because
the expenditure was unforeseen until after the last day on which it was
practicable to provide for it in the Bill for this Act before that Bill was
introduced into the House of Representatives.[38]
The amount of appropriation allocated to the Advance to
the Finance Minister in the No. 1 Bill is $400 million.[39]
A further amount of appropriation allocated to the Advance
to the Finance Minister in the No.2 Bill is $600 million.[40]
The amount of appropriation allocated to the Advance to
the responsible Presiding Officer in the Parliamentary Departments No. 1 Bill
is:
- $300,000
for the Department of the Senate
- $300,000
for the Department of the House of Representatives
- $1
million for the Department of Parliamentary Services
- $300,000
for the Parliamentary Budget Office.[41]
There are no amounts of appropriation for Advances to the
Finance Minister in the No. 3 and No. 4 Bills, nor Advances to the
responsible Presiding Officer in the Parliamentary Departments No. 2 Bill.
Debit
limits
In addition to appropriating moneys for the other annual
services of the Government, Part 4 of the No. 2 Bill also sets a
maximum amount—known as a ‘debit limit’—that may be provided to the states and
territories under grant programs specified in this Part. In this case, clause
13 specifies ‘general purpose financial assistance’ under section 9 and ‘national
partnership payments’ under section 16 of the Federal Financial
Relations Act 2009.
The legal appropriation for a grant program is provided by
the special appropriation in section 80 of the Public Governance,
Performance and Accountability Act 2013 (PGPA Act), which
provides a standing appropriation for debits from special accounts. However,
subsections 9(3) and 16(3) of the Federal Financial Relations Act allows
an annual appropriation Bill to set a maximum amount that may be debited from
the COAG Reform Fund for that financial year in relation to general purpose
financial assistance or national partnership payments, respectively.[42]
If no debit limit is specified, no amounts may be credited to or debited from
the COAG Reform Fund for that financial year in relation to general purpose
financial assistance or national partnership payments.[43]
Because the Compact prevents the No. 1 Bill from dealing
with grants to the states and territories, the debit limits are set in the No.
2 Bill.
Committee
consideration
Senate
Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills
At the time of writing the Senate Standing Committee for
the Scrutiny of Bills (the Scrutiny Committee) had not considered these six
Appropriation Bills.
Usually, if the Committee makes comments, these largely
deal with new measures that are inappropriately classified as ordinary annual
services of Government. The reason for this, as previously explained, is that
section 53 of the Constitution only allows the Senate to amend proposed laws
appropriating revenue for purposes other than for the ordinary annual services
of the Government, as long as it does not ‘increase any proposed charge or
burden on the people’.
Statement of Compatibility with Human Rights
As required under Part 3 of the Human Rights
(Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011 (Cth), the Government has assessed
the Bills’ compatibility with the human rights and freedoms recognised or
declared in the international instruments listed in section 3 of that Act. The
Government considers that the Bills are compatible.[44]
Parliamentary
Joint Committee on Human Rights
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (PJCHR)
normally considers the Appropriation Bills in its Scrutiny Digest,
however, at the time of writing the Committee had not considered these
Appropriation Bills.
However, the PJCHR has repeatedly raised concerns about
whether or not the allocation of funding proposed in Appropriation Bills might
engage human rights considerations; particularly given the capacity for
Appropriation Bills to give effect to a reduction in funding for programs that
might be aimed at the realisation of human rights.[45]
The PJCHR has previously recommended that statements of
compatibility for Appropriation Bills should contain an assessment of overall
trends in the realisation of economic, social, and cultural rights including
any retrogressive measures, the impact of Budget measures on vulnerable groups
and key individual Budget measures which engage human rights, including a brief
assessment of their human rights compatibility.[46]
Key issues
and provisions
No. 1 Bill
Clauses 6–9 of the No. 1 Bill outline the quantum
and types of appropriation from the CRF.
Clause 10 of the No. 1 Bill establishes the Advance
to the Finance Minister of $400 million for 2023–24.
Clauses 11–13 of the No. 1 Bill provide for several
technical matters, including details relating to special accounts and formally
appropriating the amounts required from the CRF.
Schedule 1 of the No. 1 Bill provides details about
the appropriations to both non-corporate entities and to corporate entities as
defined by the PGPA Act.
Table 1 below sets out in summary form the amount of
appropriations in Schedule 1 of the No. 1 Bill. These amounts
are compared to the actual available appropriation in 2022–23.
Table 1 Total
Appropriation for 2023–24 (No. 1 Bill)
| Portfolio |
Appropriation in No. 1 Bill for 2023–24
$’000 |
Actual Available Appropriation in 2022–23
$’000 |
| Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
1,003,409 |
999,600 |
| Attorney-General’s |
3,464,557 |
3,265,813 |
| Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |
4,064,404 |
3,491,624 |
| Defence |
40,420,571 |
36,354,833 |
| Education |
1,521,988 |
1,415,580 |
| Employment and Workplace Relations |
5,059,140 |
6,177,130 |
| Finance |
1,510,650 |
1,059,492 |
| Foreign Affairs and Trade |
7,622,439 |
7,240,855 |
| Health and Aged Care |
19,240,983 |
21,569,028 |
| Home Affairs |
6,088,422 |
5,867,949 |
| Industry, Science and Resources |
3,831,821 |
4,354,672 |
| Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development,
Communications and the Arts |
5,400,184 |
5,116,325 |
| Prime Minister and Cabinet |
2,931,856 |
2,847,172 |
| Social Services |
38,035,132 |
32,642,227 |
| Treasury |
5,979,008 |
5,745,849 |
| Total |
146,174,564 |
138,148,149 |
No. 2 Bill
Clauses 6–11 of the No. 2 Bill outline the quantum
and types of appropriation from the consolidated revenue fund.
Clause 12 of the No. 2 Bill establishes the Advance
to the Finance Minister of $600 million for 2023–24.
The money in the No. 2 Bill is appropriated to incorporated
and non-incorporated Government entities according to Schedule 2 of that
Bill as either:
- grants
to the states, territories and local governments (see also clause 16 below)
- new
administered programs or
- non-operating
(or ‘capital’) appropriations.
These three types of appropriations cannot be included in
the No. 1 Bill as they do not relate to the ‘ordinary annual services of
Government’.
Clause 13 of the No. 2 Bill sets appropriation
limits for provisions of the Federal Financial Relations Act. For
2023–24 these debit limits are:
- for general purpose assistance to the states and territories:
$5,000,000,000 and
- for national partnership payments: $35,000,000,000.
Clause 14 provides that the debit limits set under
clause 13 are adjusted to take into account any GST liability that may arise in
relation to particular payments.
Clauses 15–17 of the No. 2 Bill provide for several
technical matters.
Table 2 below sets out in summary form, the amount of
appropriations in Schedule 2 to the No. 2 Bill. These amounts are compared to
the actual available appropriation in 2022–23.
Table 2 Total
Appropriation for 2023–24 (No. 2 Bill)
| Portfolio |
Appropriation in No. 2 Bill for 2023–24
$’000 |
Actual Available Appropriation in 2022–23
$’000 |
| Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
274,671 |
274,553 |
| Attorney-General’s |
137,956 |
96,969 |
| Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |
8,948,612 |
2,534,065 |
| Defence |
12,949,631 |
13,405,128 |
| Education |
197,777 |
472,163 |
| Employment and Workplace Relations |
30,531 |
50,111 |
| Finance |
556,472 |
9,117 |
| Foreign Affairs and Trade |
179,789 |
92,691 |
| Health and Aged Care |
171,213 |
1,208,202 |
| Home Affairs |
100,240 |
146,590 |
| Industry, Science and Resources |
241,859 |
181,820 |
| Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications
and the Arts |
4,264,290 |
5,072,356 |
| Prime Minister and Cabinet |
37,952 |
64,066 |
| Social Services |
54,916 |
177,067 |
| Treasury |
36,689 |
217,046 |
| Total |
28,182,598 |
24,001,944 |
Parliamentary
Departments No. 1 Bill
Clause 3 of the Parliamentary Departments No. 1 Bill
defines the term responsible presiding officer as being:
(a) in relation to
the Department of the Senate—the President of the Senate
(b) in relation to the
Department of the House of Representatives—the Speaker of that House
(c) in relation to
the Department of Parliamentary Services—the President and the Speaker together
or
(d) in relation to the
Parliamentary Budget Office—the President and the Speaker together.
Clauses 6–10 of the Parliamentary Departments No. 1
Bill outline the quantum and types of appropriation from the consolidated
revenue fund.
Clause 11 establishes the Advance to the
responsible Presiding Officer for 2023–24. The amount of appropriation is
limited as follows:
- for the Department of the
Senate—$300,000
- for the Department of the
House of Representatives—$300,000
- for the Department of
Parliamentary Services—$1 million
- for the Parliamentary
Budget Office—$300,000.
Clauses 12–14 of the Parliamentary Departments No.
1 Bill provide for several technical matters, including details relating to
special accounts, formally appropriating the amounts required from the CRF, and
the future repeal of the Act on 1 July 2026.
Table 3 below sets out, in summary form, the amount of
appropriations in Schedule 1 to the Parliamentary Departments No. 1 Bill.
These amounts are compared to the actual available appropriation in 2022–23.
Table 3 Total
Appropriation for 2023–24 (Parliamentary Departments Bill)
| Portfolio |
Appropriation in Parliamentary Departments No. 1 Bill
for 2023–24
$’000 |
Actual Available Appropriation in 2022–23
$’000 |
| Department of the Senate |
27,265 |
24,202 |
| Department of the House of Representatives |
27,276 |
25,426 |
| Department of Parliamentary Services |
250,787 |
229,383 |
| Parliamentary Budget Office |
9,137 |
8,823 |
| Total |
314,465 |
287,834 |
No. 3 Bill
Clauses 6–9 of the No. 3 Bill outline the quantum
and types of appropriation from the CRF.
Clauses 10–12 of the No. 3 Bill provide for several
technical matters, including details relating to special accounts and formally
appropriating the amounts required from the CRF.
Schedule 1 of the No. 3 Bill provides details about
the appropriations to both non-corporate entities and to corporate entities as
defined by the PGPA Act.
Table 4 below sets out in summary form the amount of
appropriations in Schedule 1 of the No. 3 Bill. These amounts
are compared to the Budget appropriation in 2022–23.
Table 4 Total
Appropriation for 2022–23 (No. 3 Bill)
| Portfolio |
Appropriation in No. 3 Bill for 2022–23
$’000 |
Budget Appropriation in 2022–23
$’000 |
| Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
129,209 |
999,600 |
| Attorney-General’s |
26,122 |
3,265,813 |
| Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |
- |
3,491,624 |
| Defence |
1,849,992 |
36,354,833 |
| Education |
28,649 |
1,415,580 |
| Employment and Workplace Relations |
982,724 |
6,177,130 |
| Finance |
24,463 |
1,059,492 |
| Foreign Affairs and Trade |
248,161 |
7,240,855 |
| Health and Aged Care |
886,879 |
21,569,028 |
| Home Affairs |
231,383 |
5,867,949 |
| Industry, Science and Resources |
- |
4,354,672 |
| Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development,
Communications and the Arts |
30,833 |
5,116,325 |
| Prime Minister and Cabinet |
24,841 |
2,847,172 |
| Social Services |
1,025,676 |
32,642,227 |
| Treasury |
20,870 |
5,745,849 |
| Total |
5,509,802 |
138,148,149 |
- indicates nil
No. 4 Bill
Clauses 6–11 of the No. 4 Bill outline the quantum
and types of appropriation from the CRF.
Clauses 12–14 of the No. 4 Bill provide for several
technical matters, including details relating to special accounts and formally
appropriating the amounts required from the CRF.
The money in the No. 4 Bill is appropriated to incorporated
and non-incorporated Government entities according to Schedule 1 of that
Bill as either:
- grants to the states,
territories and local governments (see also clause 16 below)
- new administered programs
or
- non-operating (or
‘capital’) appropriations.
These three types of appropriations cannot be included in
the No. 3 Bill as they do not relate to the ‘ordinary annual services of
Government’.
Table 5 below sets out in summary form the amount of
appropriations in Schedule 1 of the No. 4 Bill. These amounts
are compared to the Budget appropriation in 2022–23.
Table 5 Total
Appropriation for 2022–23 (No. 4 Bill)
| Portfolio |
Appropriation in No. 4 Bill for 2022–23
$’000 |
Budget Appropriation in 2022–23
$’000 |
| Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
- |
274,553 |
| Attorney-General’s |
10,603 |
96,969 |
| Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |
- |
2,534,065 |
| Defence |
137,458 |
13,405,128 |
| Education |
1,838 |
472,163 |
| Employment and Workplace Relations |
- |
50,111 |
| Finance |
- |
9,117 |
| Foreign Affairs and Trade |
- |
92,691 |
| Health and Aged Care |
10,380 |
1,208,202 |
| Home Affairs |
1,750 |
146,590 |
| Industry, Science and Resources |
- |
181,820 |
| Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development,
Communications and the Arts |
- |
5,072,356 |
| Prime Minister and Cabinet |
- |
64,066 |
| Social Services |
2,319 |
177,067 |
| Treasury |
- |
217,046 |
| Total |
164,348 |
24,001,944 |
Parliamentary
Departments No. 2 Bill
Clauses 6–10 of the Parliamentary Departments No. 2
Bill outline the quantum and types of appropriation from the consolidated
revenue fund.
Clauses 11–13 of the Parliamentary Departments No.
2 Bill provide for several technical matters, including details relating to
special accounts, formally appropriating the amounts required from the CRF, and
the future repeal of the Act on 1 July 2025.
Table 6 below sets out, in summary form, the amount of
appropriations in Schedule 1 to the Parliamentary Departments No. 2 Bill.
These amounts are compared to the Budget appropriation in 2022–23.
Table 6 Total
Appropriation for 2022–23 (Parliamentary Departments No. 2 Bill)
| Portfolio |
Appropriation in Parliamentary Departments No. 2 Bill
for 2022–23
$’000 |
Budget Appropriation in 2022–23
$’000 |
| Department of the Senate |
- |
24,202 |
| Department of the House of Representatives |
560 |
25,426 |
| Department of Parliamentary Services |
- |
229,383 |
| Parliamentary Budget Office |
- |
8,823 |
| Total |
560 |
287,834 |