Specialisation

Indigenous services — the open-data ledger

Every card links back to the source dataset on data.gov.au. The Productivity Commission's Indigenous Expenditure Report is the last comprehensive all-government aggregation; it was published in 2017 for 2015-16 and has not been updated. Current Commonwealth program spending is tracked year-by-year from published Portfolio Budget Statements.

Total direct Indigenous expenditure (all governments)
$33.4B
2015-16 (last published; report discontinued) · Productivity Commission — Indigenous Expenditure Report 2017
Commonwealth Indigenous programs (selected portfolios)
$4.9B
Includes NIAA, Health First Nations Health, Indigenous Business Australia, Indigenous Land and Sea Corporation, Aboriginal Hostels, AIATSIS and Torres Strait Regional Authority.
Commonwealth Indigenous programs (selected portfolios)
$4.9B
Year-on-year change: +$83.5M (1.7%).
Commonwealth major Indigenous programs since 2020
2019-20
$4.1B
estimate
2020-21
$4.3B
estimate
2021-22
$4.6B
estimate
2022-23
$4.9B
estimate
2023-24
$4.7B
estimate
2024-25
$4.9B
2025-26
$4.9B
Claim check

Does Indigenous services spending really reach $40 billion a year?

No published dataset supports a $40B/yr figure. The closest sourced numbers, from smallest to largest scope:

$4.94B
2025-26 — Commonwealth Indigenous portfolios (NIAA, First Nations Health, IBA, ILSC, AHL, AIATSIS, TSRA)
~$4.4B
NIAA administered funding (not "$30B" — that claim was fact-checked false)
$33.4B
2015-16 — total all-government expenditure on Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Australians (direct + indirect share of mainstream services). Last edition; the PC report was discontinued.
$39.5B ✗
2023 Voice-referendum claim of "direct support each year". Rated misleading: it inflates the 2015-16 PC total and mislabels indirect/mainstream spend as "direct".

Bottom line: the only figure that gets near $40B is the ~$33.4B all-government total (direct + indirect) from 2015-16, inflation-adjusted. There is no current, published dataset showing $40B/yr in direct Indigenous services spending. If the PC report were re-run today it would plausibly land in the $35–45B range on the same methodology — but that number does not officially exist.

Expenditure datasets
721
Closing the Gap
1,346
Programme datasets
1,863
Total (this page)
3,930

Indigenous expenditure

Australian Ocean Data Network

The Marine chapter of the 2021 State of the Environment (SoE) report incorporates multiple expert templates developed from streams of marine data. This metadata record describes the Expert Assessment "Pressures on the marine environment - recreational fishing". <strong><em>A PDF of the full Expert Assessment, including figures and tables (where provided) is downloadable in the "On-line Resources"

Updated 21/12/2025· notspecified
Australian Ocean Data Network

The Marine chapter of the 2021 State of the Environment (SoE) report incorporates multiple expert templates developed from streams of marine data. This metadata record describes the Expert Assessment "Effectiveness of Management – Recreational fishing". <strong><em>A PDF of the full Expert Assessment, including figures and tables (where provided) is downloadable in the "On-line Resources" section

Updated 20/12/2025· notspecified
NSW Government

The New South Wales Government Gazette is the official channel for the circulation of Proclamations, Regulations, Government Notices, Private Legal Advertisements and other matters required to be published in the Government Gazette under the Statutes of New South Wales Government. <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been ret

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Attorney General's Department [III]</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Health Care Complaints Commission</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>New South Wales Ombudsman</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Ausgrid</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

Annual Report of the New South Wales Skills Board <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>NSW Skills Board</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Department of Education and Communities</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>South Western Sydney Area Health Service</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Landcom</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

Report on the 2008 Local Government Elections - Lachlan Shire Council <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>New South Wales Electoral Commission</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

Auditor-General's Report to Parliament Volume Two 2012, Financial Audit Branch <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Audit Office of New South Wales</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

NSW Ombudsman Annual Report 2013-2014 <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>New South Wales Ombudsman</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Department of Premier and Cabinet</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Sydney Opera House Trust</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

Responsible Gambling Fund Annual Report 2014/15 <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Responsible Gambling Fund</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba
NSW Government

No notes provided <strong>Note:</strong> This resource was originally published on opengov.nsw.gov.au. The OpenGov website has been retired. If you have any questions, please contact the Agency Services team at transfer@mhnsw.au <strong>Agency</strong> <ul> <li>Hunter-Central Rivers Catchment Management Authority</li> </ul>

Updated 19/12/2025· lsba

Closing the Gap

Parks Australia

James Cook University was commissioned by Parks Australia to assess: the latest condition of benthic, fish and invertebrate communities within the Coral Sea Marine Park any ongoing impacts of the back-to-back (2020 and 2021) bleaching events on benthic, fish and invertebrate communities, and gain some understanding of the resilience and biodiversity of the Coral Sea Marine Park ‘bright spot’ re

Updated 21/09/2026· Other
Parks Australia

The Solitary Islands Marine Park (Commonwealth waters) surrounds the Solitary Islands Marine Park (NSW state waters) and stretches from Sandon in the north to Coffs Harbour in the south. Occupying the Sea Country of the Gumbaynggirr People and Yaegl People First Nations communities, both marine parks protect submerged landscapes and a range of inherent cultural values. Both parks are located wh

Updated 21/09/2026· Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Parks Australia

Researchers from the University of WA interviewed 36 key knowledge holders in Western Australia’s professional fishing industry to discuss the knowledge fishers hold and their views on how it should be incorporated into management. The knowledge of these fishers reflects experiences and observations made in 17 different fisheries across 3,500km of coastline across multi-decade careers as skippe

Updated 21/09/2026· Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Parks Australia

This report outlines the findings of the 2022-2023 turtle count conducted within the Coral Sea Marine Park. For the purpose of this survey, an aircraft was used as the primary means of observation, and track counting occurred on the low tide the morning after a midnight high tide. The capture window was at the peak of the bell curve for the laying season (based on research by Dr Ian Bell). T

Updated 21/09/2026· Other
Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Most of our knowledge of marine biodiversity of Australia’s Indian Ocean Territories (IOT) is restricted to coastal waters around Christmas and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. However, we do know that the vast majority of the marine realm across the two territories is deep-sea, with seafloor consisting of seamounts and ridges, abyssal and hadal plains. These deeper habitats around Christmas Island wer

Updated 21/09/2026· Other
Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, (CMAR) in collaboration with Geoscience Australia (GA), was asked to provide a succinct summary of the available and relevant information describing the conservation values of the marine environment under Commonwealth jurisdiction surrounding Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. The conservation values were identified using a systems approach

Updated 21/09/2026· Other
Parks Australia

James Cook University was awarded funding through an Our Marine Parks Round 2 grant to explore and document the deep (>30m) reef habitats of the Coral Sea Marine Park using remotely operated vehicles (ROV) and acoustic tracking. These deep habitats support diverse benthic and fish assemblages. The coral cover ranged from 8% to 32% in depth 0-100m. There were four deep ‘bright spots’ (Herald’

Updated 21/09/2026· Other
Parks Australia

Scientific research within the Australian Marine Parks (AMPs) is critical to support the aims of the management plans, including improving knowledge, understanding of conservation values and the pressures on those values. In order to help Parks Australia consider the impacts and risks of different types of scientific sampling within Australian Marine Parks, a project team at CSIRO created a col

Updated 21/09/2026· Other
Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

The Coral Sea is a critically important and significant ecosystem, which (like coral reefs globally) is increasingly threatened by changing environmental conditions, particularly ocean warming. Previous surveys conducted in 2020 and 2021 showed shallow reef habitats across the Coral Sea Marine Park (CSMP) experienced severe and widespread bleaching in early 2020, with almost two-thirds of all c

Updated 21/09/2026· Other
Parks Australia

The Tasman Fracture Marine Park (TFMP) is the southernmost Australian Marine Park that includes a no-take national park zone (NPZ). It is the only park within the South-east Marine Park Network (South-east Network) that has a NPZ on the continental shelf -a zone which prohibits all fishing activities. In 2014/15 initial baselines for rocky reef demersal fishes, rock lobster and sessile benthic

Updated 21/09/2026· Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Parks Australia

Parks Australia commissioned the CSIRO to undertake a survey of selected marine and terrestrial environmental values at Ashmore Reef Marine Park. The field work was undertaken on two trips, 1– 6 May and 14- 22 June 2019. This report presents the findings of that work. For the terrestrial component, the required elements were to quantify the diversity and abundance of native and non-native plant

Updated 21/09/2026· Other
Parks Australia

The Coral Sea Marine Park is potentially well-connected to adjacent biogeographical provinces owing to westward flowing jets of the Southern Equatorial Current, more specifically, the north Vanuatu jet and the New Caledonia jet. However, patterns of connectivity for the Coral Sea are poorly understood due to the lack of long-term measurements of water circulation and oceanographic conditions an

Updated 21/09/2026· Other

First Nations programmes

Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

Historically, low-lying land adjacent to rivers and coastlines has been favoured for settlement as they provided sources of fresh water, food, transportation and waste disposal. These areas become affected by flooding during sufficiently heavy or prolonged rainfall, high tides or storm surges and cyclones. In the north-west of the State flooding is most likely to be caused by the summer monsoon or

Updated 23/09/2026· custom_active_acceptance
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation produces floodplain mapping of rivers and major watercourses and provides floodplain development advice to ensure that proposed floodplain development has adequate flood protection and does not impact on the existing flood regime of the area. This advice is related to major river flooding only and other issues, such as stormwater drainage and

Updated 23/09/2026· custom_active_acceptance
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation produces floodplain mapping of rivers and major watercourses and provides floodplain development advice to ensure that proposed floodplain development has adequate flood protection and does not impact on the existing flood regime of the area. This advice is related to major river flooding only. Other issues, such as stormwater drainage and envi

Updated 23/09/2026· custom_active_acceptance
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation produces floodplain mapping of rivers and major watercourses and provides floodplain development advice to ensure that proposed floodplain development has adequate flood protection and does not impact on the existing flood regime of the area. This advice is related to major river flooding only. Other issues, such as stormwater drainage and envi

Updated 23/09/2026· custom_active_acceptance
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation produces floodplain mapping of rivers and major watercourses and provides floodplain development advice to ensure that proposed floodplain development has adequate flood protection and does not impact on the existing flood regime of the area. This advice is related to major river flooding only. Other issues, such as stormwater drainage and envi

Updated 23/09/2026· custom_active_acceptance
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

Historically, low-lying land adjacent to rivers and coastlines has been favoured for settlement as they provided sources of fresh water, food, transportation and waste disposal. These areas become affected by flooding during sufficiently heavy or prolonged rainfall, high tides or storm surges and cyclones. In the north-west of the State flooding is most likely to be caused by the summer monsoon or

Updated 23/09/2026· custom_active_acceptance
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

Historically, low-lying land adjacent to rivers and coastlines has been favoured for settlement as they provided sources of fresh water, food, transportation and waste disposal. These areas become affected by flooding during sufficiently heavy or prolonged rainfall, high tides or storm surges and cyclones. In the north-west of the State flooding is most likely to be caused by the summer monsoon or

Updated 23/09/2026· custom_active_acceptance
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation produces floodplain mapping of rivers and major watercourses and provides floodplain development advice to ensure that proposed floodplain development has adequate flood protection and does not impact on the existing flood regime of the area. This advice is related to major river flooding only. Other issues, such as stormwater drainage and envi

Updated 23/09/2026· custom_active_acceptance
Department of Water and Environmental Regulation

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation produces floodplain mapping of rivers and major watercourses and provides floodplain development advice to ensure that proposed floodplain development has adequate flood protection and does not impact on the existing flood regime of the area. This advice is related to major river flooding only. Other issues, such as stormwater drainage and envi

Updated 23/09/2026· custom_active_acceptance
Australian Communications and Media Authority

Under section 84 of the _Telecommunications Act 1997_, the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is required to maintain a register which includes: * all nominated carrier declarations currently in force * all carrier licences currently in force and * all conditions of such licences. The register document can be found on the [ACMA's website here](https://www.acma.gov.au/regi

Updated 23/09/2026· Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia
Parks Australia

James Cook University was commissioned by Parks Australia to assess: the latest condition of benthic, fish and invertebrate communities within the Coral Sea Marine Park any ongoing impacts of the back-to-back (2020 and 2021) bleaching events on benthic, fish and invertebrate communities, and gain some understanding of the resilience and biodiversity of the Coral Sea Marine Park ‘bright spot’ re

Updated 21/09/2026· Other
Parks Australia

Researchers from the University of WA interviewed 36 key knowledge holders in Western Australia’s professional fishing industry to discuss the knowledge fishers hold and their views on how it should be incorporated into management. The knowledge of these fishers reflects experiences and observations made in 17 different fisheries across 3,500km of coastline across multi-decade careers as skippe

Updated 21/09/2026· Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia