Bill
Appropriation Bill (No. 1) 2025-2026
passed, as at 2025-10-29. Finance portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Finance
Recorded stages
- 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
- second reading — 2025-10-07
- other — 2025-10-07
- committee — 2025-10-07
- committee — 2025-10-08
- committee — 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 the remaining 7/12ths of the estimated 2025-26 annual government spending from the Consolidated Revenue Fund.
It would provide funding for the final seven months of 2025-26, including for Budget measures, and replaces bills that lapsed when Parliament was dissolved.
The reintroduced bill is substantially the same as the lapsed version but includes changes from the 2025 Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook, election commitments, and new entities like the Defence and Veterans' Services Commission.
- Authorises the remaining 7/12ths of estimated 2025-26 annual appropriations.
- Provides funding for the 2025-26 Budget measures and selected election commitments.
- Includes direct appropriations for two new non-corporate Commonwealth entities.
The government and its agencies, including new entities such as the Defence and Veterans' Services Commission and the Australian Naval Nuclear Power Safety Regulator.
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