Bill
Appropriation Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026
passed, as at 2025-10-29. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-07-30
- second reading — 2025-07-30
- second reading — 2025-09-01
- second reading — 2025-09-02
- second reading — 2025-09-03
- other — 2025-09-04
- second reading — 2025-09-04
- other — 2025-09-04
- other — 2025-10-07
- second reading — 2025-10-09
- other — 2025-10-09
- third reading — 2025-10-09
- introduced — 2025-10-27
- second reading — 2025-10-27
- second reading — 2025-10-27
- second reading — 2025-10-28
- third reading — 2025-10-28
- passed — 2025-10-28
- royal assent — 2025-10-29
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 2025-07-30.
The bill would authorise spending from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for government services that are not part of its ordinary annual operations.
It would provide the final seven-twelfths of estimated annual appropriations for the 2025-26 financial year, covering government expenditure from December 2025 to June 2026.
The bill includes direct funding for two new federal bodies: the Defence and Veterans’ Services Commission and the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulator.
- Authorises spending for non-ordinary annual government services.
- Provides the remaining seven-twelfths of annual appropriations for 2025-26.
- Funds two new non-corporate Commonwealth entities.
- Reflects government decisions, election commitments, and savings measures.
- Updates appropriation numbers from the lapsed bills to reflect current estimates.
The federal government and its agencies, including two new entities: the Defence and Veterans’ Services Commission and the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulator.
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