{"id":"F2025L00854","name":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2025-26 Payment No. 1) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-1-determination-","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":442897,"registerId":"F2025L00854-fast-fetch-1775957813587","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2025-26 Payment No. 1) Determination 2025","content":"---\nmeta-content-style-type: text/css\nmeta-content-type: application/xhtml+xml; charset=utf-8\n---\n\n![Commonwealth Coat of Arms of Australia](image.001.jpeg)\n\n \n\nFederal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2025-26 Payment No. 1) Determination 2025\n\nI, Daniel Mulino, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services, make the following determination.\n\nDated     14 July 2025\n\n \n\nDr Daniel Mulino  Assistant Treasurer  Minister for Financial Services\n\n \n\n\n\n\nContents\n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n1  Name \n\n2  Commencement\n\n3  Authority\n\n4  Definitions\n\nPart 2—Determination of general purpose financial assistance 2\n\n5  Determination of general purpose financial assistance\n\n \n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (General Purpose Financial Assistance—2025-26 Payment No. 1) Determination 2025.\n\n2  Commencement\n\n (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.\n\n \n\n- Commencement information\n- Column 1 Column 2 Column 3\n- Provisions Commencement Date/Details\n- 1. The whole of this instrument Immediately after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.\n\n (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.\n\n3  Authority\n\n  This instrument is made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.\n\n4  Definitions\n\nNote: Paragraph 13(1)(b) of the Legislation Act 2003 has the effect that expressions have the same meaning in this instrument as in the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 as in force from time to time.\n\n  In this instrument:\n\nthe Act means the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009.\n\nPart 2—Determination of general purpose financial assistance\n\n \n\nNote 1: A determination in this Part is made under subsection 9(1) of the Act.\n\nNote 2: A payment of the amounts determined in this Part is proposed to be made in July 2025.\n\n5  Determination of general purpose financial assistance\n\n  Each item of the following table specifies an amount to be paid to the State mentioned in that item for the purpose of making a grant of general purpose financial assistance to that State.\n\n \n\n| Item | State | Determined amount of general purpose financial assistance |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | New South Wales | $- |\n| 2 | Victoria | $- |\n| 3 | Queensland | $- |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $40,144,208.89 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $- |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $- |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $3,861,646.03 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $- |\n| 9 | Total | $44,005,854.92 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. Add credits at https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%7E%2Fai%3Fmodal%3Dtop-up to continue.","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the function intended by the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 — making determinations of general purpose financial assistance amounts. It is a routine annual payment determination with no expansion beyond the original statutory purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short instrument (only 5 substantive provisions)","Only 1 defined term ('the Act')","Single operative provision (section 5) containing a simple table of amounts","No conditional logic, exceptions, or cross-references beyond basic authority citation","Straightforward tabular format for financial allocations","No substantive legal tests or thresholds to apply"],"plain_english_summary":"This decision authorises the Commonwealth’s first 2025–26 general purpose payments to states and territories, totalling about $44 million. Only Western Australia ($40.1m) and the Australian Capital Territory ($3.9m) receive cash in this round; other jurisdictions receive nothing here. These flexible payments affect state and territory budgets and are funded by taxpayers, allowing recipients to spend the money on any priorities such as schools, health or policing."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument does not alter the legal scope of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009; it implements that Act by specifying the amounts to be paid to particular States and Territories for a single payment round (s3, s5). It therefore carries out an existing payment function rather than changing who is eligible or the statutory scheme."},"complexity_factors":["Single, focused legal action: the instrument's sole operative effect is to specify payment amounts in a table (s5).","Statutory authority clear: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 (s3), reducing interpretive ambiguity.","Short form and immediate commencement: the whole instrument commences on registration (s2), so no staged implementation complexity.","Precise numeric allocations limited to two recipients and a stated total, lowering administrative calculation complexity (s5 table).","Timing note: payment is proposed for July 2025 (Note 2), creating a narrow operational deadline for Treasury/State payment processing.","Low discretionary content: no new criteria, conditions, or obligations on recipients are created, limiting compliance or enforcement tasks.","Administrative tasks remain: Commonwealth must process transfers and States must reconcile receipts—routine but operationally necessary (s5, Note 2)."],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument sets Commonwealth general-purpose financial assistance payments for 2025–26 by naming the amounts to be paid to states and territories. It mechanically authorises specific transfers: $40,144,208.89 to Western Australia and $3,861,646.03 to the Australian Capital Territory (total $44,005,854.92). The Assistant Treasurer makes the determination under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009, and the payments are proposed to be made in July 2025."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-1-determination-","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-1-determination-/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-1-determination-/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-1-determination-/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-1-determination-/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-general-purpose-financial-assistance-2025-26-payment-no-1-determination-/documents"}}