{"id":"F2025L01355","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2025-26 Payment No. 5) Determination 2025","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-5-determination-2025","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":443035,"registerId":"F2025L01355-fast-fetch-1775957945972","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-12","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"1","sectionType":"section","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2025-26 Payment No. 5) 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 (National Partnership Payments—2025-26 Payment No. 5) Determination 2025\n\nI, Andrew Leigh, Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury, make the following determination.\n\nDated     3 November 2025\n\n \n\nDr Andrew Leigh  Assistant Minister for Productivity, Competition, Charities and Treasury\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 national partnership payments 2\n\n5  Determination of national partnership payments\n\n \n\nPart 1—Preliminary\n\n \n\n1  Name\n\n  This instrument is the Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments—2025-26 Payment No. 5) 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after this instrument is registered.\n\n\nNote: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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 national partnership payments\n\n \n\nNote 1: A determination in this Part is made under subsection 16(1) of the Act.\n\nNote 2: A payment of the amounts determined in this Part is proposed to be made in November 2025.\n\n5  Determination of national partnership payments\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 financial assistance to that State as specified in subsection 16(1) of the Act.\n\n \n\n| Item | State | Determined amount of national partnership payments |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | New South Wales | $633,766,203.20 |\n| 2 | Victoria | $55,535,986.09 |\n| 3 | Queensland | $272,008,449.38 |\n| 4 | Western Australia | $157,235,454.28 |\n| 5 | South Australia | $74,330,149.66 |\n| 6 | Tasmania | $72,634,383.78 |\n| 7 | Australian Capital Territory | $20,629,885.55 |\n| 8 | Northern Territory | $4,565,648.67 |\n| 9 | Total | $1,290,706,160.61 |\n\n\n \n","sortOrder":0}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument does not change the statutory scope of federal financial relations. It exercises the existing power in subsection 16(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 to determine amounts and timing for grants to States and Territories (Part 2, Note 1; s 5). It does not introduce new payment categories, eligibility rules, or conditions within the instrument."},"complexity_factors":["Simple legal form: single instrument that specifies fixed dollar amounts in a table (Part 2, s 5).","Clear statutory authority: made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009 and specifically notes subsection 16(1) as the power used (Part 2, Note 1).","Limited operational content: the instrument only sets amounts and commencement timing; it contains no eligibility rules, performance conditions or administrative detail (Part 2, s 5; Commencement s 2).","Multiple recipients: payments allocated across eight jurisdictions plus a total line requires administrative distribution but does not alter allocation mechanics (s 5 table).","Timing/formality aspects: immediate commencement upon registration and a specified proposed payment month (s 2; Part 2, Note 2) create straightforward but fixed fiscal timing obligations."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination sets fixed national partnership payment amounts to each State and Territory for the 2025–26 Payment No. 5, totalling $1,290,706,160.61 and proposed to be paid in November 2025. It operates under subsection 16(1) of the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009: the Commonwealth will grant these specified sums to the listed States and Territories, affecting their budgets by allocating the amounts and specifying commencement but not imposing conditions within this instrument."},"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"Unauthenticated. Configure AI_GATEWAY_API_KEY or use a provider module. Learn more: https://ai-sdk.dev/unauthenticated-ai-gateway","source":"analysis-cron"},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":1,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This instrument performs exactly the function intended by the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009: making specific determinations of payment amounts to states and territories. There is no scope creep or expansion beyond the original statutory purpose."},"complexity_factors":["Extremely short: only 5 substantive provisions across 2 Parts","Zero defined terms in the instrument itself (relies entirely on definitions from the parent Act)","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling Act","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","Single operative provision (section 5) consisting of a basic table with 8 data rows","Essentially a data entry instrument with minimal legal machinery"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises just over $1.29 billion in national partnership payments — federal grants for jointly agreed projects and services — to Australia’s states and territories, payable November 2025. New South Wales receives the largest share (about $633.8m), with significant allocations to Queensland ($272m), Western Australia ($157.2m) and smaller amounts to Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT and the Northern Territory. It’s a routine Federal Financial Relations Act decision to enable agreed Commonwealth–state funding."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-5-determination-2025","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-5-determination-2025/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-5-determination-2025/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-5-determination-2025/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-5-determination-2025/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-2025-26-payment-no-5-determination-2025/documents"}}