Brief prepared by Government and Defence Division for 2025-26 Supplementary Budget Estimates

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This released document is an estimates brief from the Government and Defence Division of the Department of Finance, prepared for the October 2025 Supplementary Budget Estimates. It sets out Defence funding, with the Government committing $262.6 billion over four years from 2025-26, and departmental Defence funding of $59.0 billion in 2025-26, growing at an average of 7.5 per cent a year. Tables show Defence Integrated Investment Program planned expenditure of $37.6 billion in 2025-26 and total Defence spending at about 2 per cent of GDP, or roughly 2.8 per cent under the NATO methodology. Key recent announcements include a $12 billion down payment on a Henderson Defence Precinct, a $10 billion drone capability package, and a PNG mutual defence treaty whose funding remains unconfirmed. Parts of the GDP-methodology commentary are redacted under section 33.