Department of Home Affairs

Scrutiny of Commonwealth expenditure

The below table shows instruments registered between 21 November 2019 and 26 March 2020 specifying Commonwealth expenditure within the portfolio of Home Affairs.

Please note that instruments will only appear on this page once they have been considered and reported on by the committee.

Instrument	Grant/Program	Amount	Description	Portfolio committee
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 [F2019L01632]	Community Languages Multicultural Grants Program	$12.6 million over three years from 2019-20.	The Community Languages Multicultural Grants Program will support not-for-profit community language schools through capacity grants (to help cover operating costs such as teaching materials, staff wages and new educational equipment), and project grants (to develop teaching materials or to run training activities to benefit community language schools).	Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 1) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00032]	Support to communities affected by bushfires—payments for children	$10 million in 2019-20 (uncapped)	Funding will be provided for supplementary one-off payments under the Australian Government Disaster Recover Payment to eligible families who have been adversely affected by the recent bushfires. The payments are intended to provide one-off financial assistance to help families meet the costs associated with supporting their child or children to commence or return to school, such as for uniforms, books and stationery.	Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee
Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 2) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00104]	Support services for post‑traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses—emergency services workers involved in the 2019-2020 bushfire season Support and mental health literacy network for emergency services workers—pilot program	$11.5 million over three years from 2019-20	Funding will be provided to: support services for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses for emergency service workers who responded to the 2019-20 Australian bushfires, and their immediate family members; and establish a support and mental health literacy network to provide support to emergency service workers (including volunteers and former emergency service workers) and their families.	Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee

Instrument

Grant/Program

Amount

Description

Portfolio committee

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 1) Regulations 2019 [F2019L01632]

Community Languages Multicultural Grants Program

$12.6 million over three years from 2019-20.

The Community Languages Multicultural Grants Program will support not-for-profit community language schools through capacity grants (to help cover operating costs such as teaching materials, staff wages and new educational equipment), and project grants (to develop teaching materials or to run training activities to benefit community language schools).

Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 1) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00032]

Support to communities affected by bushfires—payments for children

$10 million in 2019-20 (uncapped)

Funding will be provided for supplementary one-off payments under the Australian Government Disaster Recover Payment to eligible families who have been adversely affected by the recent bushfires. The payments are intended to provide one-off financial assistance to help families meet the costs associated with supporting their child or children to commence or return to school, such as for uniforms, books and stationery.

Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Home Affairs Measures No. 2) Regulations 2020 [F2020L00104]

Support services for post‑traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses—emergency services workers involved in the 2019-2020 bushfire season

Support and mental health literacy network for emergency services workers—pilot program

$11.5 million over three years from 2019-20

Funding will be provided to:

support services for post-traumatic stress disorder and other mental illnesses for emergency service workers who responded to the 2019-20 Australian bushfires, and their immediate family members; and
establish a support and mental health literacy network to provide support to emergency service workers (including volunteers and former emergency service workers) and their families.

Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee