Federal Budget 2025-2026 (Bill No. 3)
Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026
House of Representatives
Senate
Assent
Introduced by: Senator the Hon Katy Gallagher (ALP)
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Effects of this bill
If this bill passes, it means that:
The Debate
What different members said when this bill was debated:
Dr Daniel Mulino ALP
“I move: That this bill be now read a second time. Today, the government introduces the 2025-26 additional estimates appropriation bills. These bills are Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026.”
“After listening to the member for Fairfax, I have one question: what are you going to cut, mate? The member for Fairfax has spoken again and again about the budget. The member for Fairfax has said that those opposite are an alternative government. The member for Fairfax has said that he rejects the economic approach this government is taking and that the budget needs to change.”
Tom French ALP
“I don’t even know where to start after that. I must thank the member for Goldstein. I feel he walked into the wrong meeting. That meeting’s down the docks on a Wednesday night, my friend. He’s forgotten what we were actually here to speak about. I rise to speak in support of Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, Appropriation Bill (No.”
Mary Aldred LIB
“I rise to speak on the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026 and related appropriation bills. Let me be clear from the outset: the coalition won’t oppose or delay the passage of these bills. While we don’t support all of the policies and programs funded in this budget, these appropriation bills are necessary legislative mechanisms to fund decisions that the government has already made.”
“I rise today to speak in support of the 2025-26 additional estimates appropriation bills: Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026. Before making my remarks, I acknowledge I am making these remarks on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people.”
Alison Penfold NAT
“I appreciate the opportunity to speak on these bills, which provide for the legislative mechanism to additional measures in the government’s 2025-26 budget. Commonwealth expenditure is a significant issue for the Lyne electorate and more so than ever, with a lack of funding flowing to regional Australia, including the Mid North Coast of New South Wales.”
Julian Hill ALP
“I’m going to start with three good things. Firstly, this week we’ve seen new data which confirms the biggest jump in quarterly bulk-billing statistics in over 20 years. In just the last three months we’ve seen a recovery of the bulk-billing rate—GP visits that are bulk-billed—to 81.4 per cent. There are now more than 3,400 bulk-billing practices in Australia—and that’s growing every week.”
“The opposition does not, as you would expect, support all of the policies and programs in the federal budget. However, the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, the Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026 do provide the legislative mechanism by which the policies and programs of the government’s 2025-26 budget need to be funded.”
Dr Andrew Leigh ALP
“In the 1950s a significant change took place in medicine. The advent of evidence based medicine saw that field move from an approach which had previously prized grey-bearded experts towards a more scientific and critical approach, which looked to test new treatments. Streptomycin, the polio vaccine and other treatments were evaluated using randomised trials.”
Michelle Landry LNP
“by leave—One of the most damaging examples is Labor’s decision to slash NDIS provider travel reimbursements by half. Under these changes, providers’ capacities to travel to clients in regional and remote areas have been severely reduced, regardless of distance. For communities spread across vast geographic areas, like my electorate of Capricornia, this is not a minor budget adjustment.”
Rowan Holzberger ALP
“I feel an affinity for the member for Capricornia, myself coming from the country originally. I’m a Broken Hill boy; it’s where I spent many years. The member representing the great city of Broken Hill is here as well.”
Anne Webster NAT
“It was very refreshing to hear the member the Forde and his arguments throughout that discourse, particularly that he sees reward for effort as a noble and good thing and that energy is the economy. Those are just two pieces that I took out of his speech.”
Anne Urquhart ALP
“I rise today to speak in support of this package of appropriation bills: the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026 and related bills. These bills give effect to decisions outlined in the 2025-26 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, which the Albanese Labor government delivered at the end of last year.”
Jamie Chaffey NAT
“Today we’re here in this place once again to talk about adding yet more money to a budget that is already weighing our nation down like a lead anchor. This isn’t 20 bucks in a jar to put towards a bit of home maintenance; this is $12.7 billion that our nation can ill afford.”
Ms RYAN
“This government is focused on one thing, and that is helping with the cost of living, because we know every little bit helps. We’ve delivered tax cuts for every Australian taxpayer, we’ve created more jobs and we’ve lifted pay. These tax cuts are about easing pressure and helping households get ahead.”
Kate Chaney IND
“I rise to speak on Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026 and its companion bills. These appropriations give effect to the government’s expenditure decisions since the 2025-26 budget, including measures announced in the 2025-26 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, or MYEFO.”
Ash Ambihaipahar ALP
“I rise to speak on the appropriation bills before the House and, in doing so, I want to celebrate the priorities of this Albanese government. Now, budgets aren’t just about numbers; they are also about values. Every appropriation bill tells a story about the country we are trying to build together.”
Leon Rebello LNP
“I rise to speak today on the appropriation bills 2025-2026. For those watching from home, these bills provide legislative authority for additional funding from the Consolidated Revenue Fund for decisions taken since the 2025-2026 budget, and that includes decisions announced in the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook. The government is today seeking approval for $12.”
Matt Burnell ALP
“Appropriation bills may not always attract the attention of this House or get the front-page headlines in the morning paper but they sit at the very heart of our parliamentary democracy. They are how parliament exercised one of its oldest and most important responsibilities—control and release of public expenditure.”
Aaron Violi LIB
“I rise today to raise my community’s voice in our nation’s parliament, and I have the honour to serve my community, the community my family has lived in since 1953, and to ensure that I am a strong local voice fighting for our region, from the suburbs to the valley, the hills and all of the outer east.”
Steve Georganas ALP
“It gives me great pleasure to stand here today and talk on the appropriation bills: Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026.”
Jo Briskey ALP
“I rise today with a profound sense of purpose, because what we are delivering as a Labor government is not an abstraction; it’s a statement of values, a declaration of the kind of country we are choosing to build and a reflection of who we are as a people.”
Andrew Willcox LNP
“An appropriations bill is about where government spends the money, and let me tell you from the outset that they’re not spending it very wisely. This government’s priorities are all wrong. The No. 1 priority for any government should be to keep the people safe and their border secure. Well, clearly the Albanese Labor government is failing on that. But let’s move on to the No.”
Patrick Gorman ALP
“I am proudly the member for Perth and proudly a Western Australian. I am proudly a federationist. I believe that secession is false hope. It is a fringe idea with real-world costs. And, as we read in the Australian this week, we are seeing in Western Australia a new generation of secessionists launching a 400-page, 15-chapter book entitled Secession by Western Australia.”
Sam Birrell NAT
“These are appropriation bills, and I think it’s interesting to think about one of the things I think we all enjoy in parliament, and that’s when the grade 6s come from our electorates. They come here to the home of democracy in Australia and they ask us what we do, and we talk about what we do. It’s good to talk to the grade 6s because you can distil what we’re here for.”
Renee Coffey ALP
“While we can discuss appropriation bills in terms of numbers, line items and balance sheets, at the heart they’re about our national priorities. They tell us what we value, what we are prepared to build and what kind of country we want to be. For me, one of the clearest tests of any spending is whether it strengthens the foundations of our democracy. Democracy itself is not self-sustaining.”
Pat Conaghan NAT
“I’m very pleased to rise to speak on the appropriation bill. For those who are listening or watching, this is an opportunity for us to talk about how the government is spending your money—not its money, your money—where it’s spending it and whether it’s being spent properly. It’s also about where it’s not being spent, which most of my speech will be about.”
“I rise to speak on Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026, brought forward by the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, and I commend him for doing so.”
Tom Venning LIB
“I rise to speak on the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, the Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026. The Albanese government has made history as the highest spending government outside of the pandemic in 40 years. In coming years, it is projected, they will break their own record.”
Madonna Jarrett ALP
“I rise in support of the appropriations bills for 2025-26. Just under a year ago, the Albanese government took to the voters of Australia an ambitious plan to ease cost-of-living pressures and to rebuild the economy.”
Susan Templeman ALP
“The appropriation bills provide a great opportunity to step back and take a look at how this government, the Albanese government, is delivering on the commitments we’ve made across vital portfolios—health, education, social services, climate change and energy—and the cost-of-living assistance that we have been able to deliver.”
Carol Berry ALP
“I rise to speak in support of the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026 and the related bills because I am proud to be part of the Albanese Labor government, which is delivering on its commitments across the country, including in my electorate of Whitlam. I am proud because our government is focused on delivering real outcomes for the Australian community. We aren’t a government of empty promises.”
Matt Keogh ALP
“In communities right across Perth’s south-eastern suburbs, families are working hard every day to give their kids the best possible start in life. The Albanese government’s No. 1 priority is delivering cost-of-living relief to communities like ours. We’re working to set Australia up for the long-term. We’re strengthening Medicare, investing in education and helping people get into their own homes.”
Ed Husic ALP
“Appropriation bills, like the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026 and the related bills, are also about the investment choices that we make as a nation. They tell Australians what we value and the type of future we intend to create. They fund the essential services people rely on. They also shape the way the government participates in and influences the economy through its decisions.”
Tania Lawrence ALP
“Appropriation bills are about priorities. They are about what we value as a nation and whether we are prepared to back those values with sustained investment and service delivery.”
Amanda Rishworth ALP
“I rise to speak on the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026 and related bills. It gives me great pleasure to be speaking on this bill, because this bill is the next bill to actually focus on our government’s agenda of delivery. Our government has been delivering and delivering, and I’m really very proud of that.”
Tony Zappia ALP
“Greek philosopher Aristotle is credited with saying that true democracy requires citizens to care about injustice to others. As a general observation, Australia could be considered a democratic country, and it prides itself on being so. The very simple Australian citizenship pledge specifically states, ’whose democratic beliefs I share’. Yet even Australian democracy is far from perfect.”
Lisa Chesters ALP
“The bills before us, as other speakers have established, are Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026. These bills underpin the government’s expenditure decisions that have been made since the last budget.”
Ali France ALP
“I rise to speak on the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, the Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and the Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026. Australia, like most of the world, continues to experience persistent inflationary pressures, but we know that inflation is much lower than when we came to government.”
Anne Stanley ALP
“The Albanese Labor government is now into its second term after having been elected in May 2022 and re-elected in May last year. In that time, there has been no shortage of challenges both domestically and internationally. Notwithstanding that, on every occasion our government has risen to the occasion.”
Sharon Claydon ALP
“I’m incredibly proud to be part of a government that is delivering for my community of Newcastle—delivering real projects, delivering real investment and delivering real opportunity because that is what Labor governments do: we build, we invest and we back communities for the long term, not just election cycles.”
Luke Gosling ALP
“I rise to speak on Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026. High-performing governments invest money efficiently and in line with their priorities. It takes hard work, careful diligence, running the numbers and then running the numbers again and again.”
Emma McBride ALP
“I rise to speak on the Appropriation Bill (No.3) 2025-2026. Since coming to office, the Albanese Labor government has been focused on strengthening Medicare and delivering more accessible and affordable health care for all Australians.”
David Moncrieff ALP
“The communities of southern Sydney that make up Hughes are truly special ones. It is such a great honour to be able to serve them in this place as the member for Hughes. One of the key ways that this parliament serves the communities we represent is in allocation of resources through bills, such as these appropriations bills which are before us today.”
Dan Repacholi ALP
“I rise to speak on Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026, Appropriation Bill (No. 4) 2025-2026 and Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill (No. 2) 2025-2026. These bills represent the continuation of our government’s responsible and fair economic management.”
Gabriel Ng ALP
“This bill is all about delivery of the commitments we took to the last election.”
Zali Steggall IND
“Australia’s budget is too exposed to global fossil fuel shocks and too soft on capturing a fair return from our own natural resources. The war involving Iran and disruption around the Strait of Hormuz is a brutal reminder that energy security is national security and that price shocks overseas hit Australian households, freight, food and inflation at home.”
Matt Gregg ALP
“I rise to speak on the Appropriation Bill (No. 3) 2025-2026 and related bills. Like every appropriation bill, it is about priorities—the choices we’re making as a government to tackle the big challenges and seize the opportunities before us as a country.”