Bill
Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026
lapsed, as at 2025-03-28. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-03-25
- second reading — 2025-03-25
- second reading — 2025-03-27
- other — 2025-03-28
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2025-03-25.
This bill would take money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund to cover the government's day-to-day running costs.
The funding equals about seven-twelfths of the estimated yearly total for 2025-26, plus new budget measures and some extra spending already approved for the current financial year.
A separate bill covers the remaining five-twelfths, ensuring enough cash for the first five months of the next financial year.
- Appropriates money for the ordinary annual services of government.
- Provides seven-twelfths of the estimated 2025-26 annual appropriations plus 2025-26 Budget measures.
- Includes appropriations for spending in the rest of 2024-25 agreed since the 2024-25 Additional Estimates.
The federal government's ordinary annual services.
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