{"id":"F2018L00133","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 130 (February 2018)","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-130-february-2018","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":96770,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2018L00133-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-02","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Federal Financial Relations (National Pa","sectionType":"part","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 130 (February 2018)","content":"# Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 130 (February 2018)","sortOrder":0},{"sectionNumber":"Name of determination","sectionType":"division","heading":"Name of determination","content":"### Name of determination\n\n    This determination is the Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 130 (February 2018).","sortOrder":1},{"sectionNumber":"Commencement","sectionType":"division","heading":"Commencement","content":"### Commencement\n\n    2. This determination commences on the day on which it is made.","sortOrder":2},{"sectionNumber":"Determination","sectionType":"division","heading":"Determination","content":"### Determination\n\n    3. The amounts specified in the following table are to be paid to the States specified in that table for the purpose of making a grant of financial assistance to:\n    (a) support the delivery by the States of specified outputs or projects specified in Schedule 1;\n    (b) facilitate the reforms by the States specified in Schedule 1; or\n    (c) reward the States for the nationally significant reforms specified in  \n    Schedule 1.","sortOrder":3},{"sectionNumber":"Table 1: National Partnership Payments f","sectionType":"division","heading":"Table 1: National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 February 2018","content":"### Table 1: National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 February 2018\n\n    ![](image.001.png)\n    4. Schedule 1 to this determination provides further information on these payments.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"SChedule 1","sectionType":"part","heading":null,"content":"# SChedule 1\n\n## Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 February 2018 ($)\n\n|                                                        |     | NSW           | VIC           | QLD          | WA           | SA           | TAS          | ACT          | NT         | Total         |\n| ------------------------------------------------------ | --- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ---------- | ------------- |\n| Health                                                 |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Other health payments                                  | x   |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Essential vaccines                                     | x   | 2,746,574.05  | 1,898,719.11  | 2,065,136.35 | 1,096,121.31 | 731,591.63   | 227,326.59   | 143,900.06   | 372,344.28 | 9,281,713.38  |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments             |     | 2,746,574.05  | 1,898,719.11  | 2,065,136.35 | 1,096,121.31 | 731,591.63   | 227,326.59   | 143,900.06   | 372,344.28 | 9,281,713.38  |\n|                                                        |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Education                                              |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| National School Chaplaincy Program                     | x   | -             | 12,614,398.00 | -            | -            | -            | 2,191,557.00 | -            | 483,178.00 | 15,289,133.00 |\n| Total Education National Partnership payments          |     | -             | 12,614,398.00 | -            | -            | -            | 2,191,557.00 | -            | 483,178.00 | 15,289,133.00 |\n|                                                        |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Community Services                                     |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Specialist disability services                         | x   | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00  | 3,653,000.00 | -            | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00   | 2,472,000.00 | 507,000.00 | 29,297,000.00 |\n| Transition to NDIS in WA                               | x   | -             | -             | -            | 5,952,090.00 | -            | -            | -            | -          | 5,952,090.00  |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments |     | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00  | 3,653,000.00 | 5,952,090.00 | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00   | 2,472,000.00 | 507,000.00 | 35,249,090.00 |\n|                                                        |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Affordable Housing                                     |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Homelessness                                           | x   | 2,501,000.00  | 1,899,000.00  | 2,392,000.00 | 1,247,000.00 | 739,000.00   | 233,000.00   | 126,000.00   | 443,000.00 | 9,580,000.00  |\n| Total Affordable Housing National Partnership payments |     | 2,501,000.00  | 1,899,000.00  | 2,392,000.00 | 1,247,000.00 | 739,000.00   | 233,000.00   | 126,000.00   | 443,000.00 | 9,580,000.00  |\n\n  \n\n|                                                                       |     | NSW            | VIC           | QLD            | WA            | SA             | TAS           | ACT          | NT            | Total          |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------------- | ------------- | -------------- | ------------- | -------------- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------------- |\n| Infrastructure                                                        |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program                                     | x   |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Investment Rail                                                       | x   | -              | 250,000.00    | 10,900,000.00  | -             | 105,000,000.00 | -             | -            | -             | 116,150,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road                 | x   | 264,100,000.00 | 24,155,000.00 | 76,336,250.00  | 58,060,000.00 | 44,000,000.00  | 1,719,353.00  | -            | 5,130,000.00  | 473,500,603.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States                          | x   | 895,046.00     | -             | 3,000,000.00   | -             | -              | 350,000.00    | -            | -             | 4,245,046.00   |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments                               | x   | 1,513,000.00   | 25,000.00     | -              | -             | -              | -             | -            | -             | 1,538,000.00   |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States                                      | x   | -              | 612,000.00    | 3,814,000.00   | 93,000.00     | -              | -             | -            | 1,375,000.00  | 5,894,000.00   |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package                                         | x   |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| ARF - IIP - National Highway Upgrade Programme                        | x   | -              | 400,000.00    | -              | -             | -              | -             | -            | -             | 400,000.00     |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package - New Investments                       | x   |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| ARF - IIP - New Investments (unallocated)                             | x   | -              | -             | 50,603,500.00  | -             | -              | -             | -            | 2,000,000.00  | 52,603,500.00  |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments                    |     | 266,508,046.00 | 25,442,000.00 | 144,653,750.00 | 58,153,000.00 | 149,000,000.00 | 2,069,353.00  | -            | 8,505,000.00  | 654,331,149.00 |\n|                                                                       |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Environment                                                           |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Water for the Future - Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure | x   | -              | -             | 1,666,960.00   | -             | -              | 5,191,456.00  | -            | -             | 6,858,416.00   |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments                       |     | -              | -             | 1,666,960.00   | -             | -              | 5,191,456.00  | -            | -             | 6,858,416.00   |\n|                                                                       |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Other                                                                 |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Developing Demand-Driver Infrastructure for the Tourism Industry      | x   | -              | -             | -              | -             | -              | -             | -            | 260,000.00    | 260,000.00     |\n| Total Other National Partnership payments                             |     | -              | -             | -              | -             | -              | -             | -            | 260,000.00    | 260,000.00     |\n|                                                                       |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Total National Partnership Payments                                   |     | 284,568,620.05 | 48,022,117.11 | 154,430,846.35 | 66,448,211.31 | 153,166,591.63 | 10,900,692.59 | 2,741,900.06 | 10,570,522.28 | 730,849,501.38 |","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments","sectionType":"part","heading":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 February 2018 ($)","content":"## Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 7 February 2018 ($)\n\n|                                                        |     | NSW           | VIC           | QLD          | WA           | SA           | TAS          | ACT          | NT         | Total         |\n| ------------------------------------------------------ | --- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ---------- | ------------- |\n| Health                                                 |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Other health payments                                  | x   |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Essential vaccines                                     | x   | 2,746,574.05  | 1,898,719.11  | 2,065,136.35 | 1,096,121.31 | 731,591.63   | 227,326.59   | 143,900.06   | 372,344.28 | 9,281,713.38  |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments             |     | 2,746,574.05  | 1,898,719.11  | 2,065,136.35 | 1,096,121.31 | 731,591.63   | 227,326.59   | 143,900.06   | 372,344.28 | 9,281,713.38  |\n|                                                        |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Education                                              |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| National School Chaplaincy Program                     | x   | -             | 12,614,398.00 | -            | -            | -            | 2,191,557.00 | -            | 483,178.00 | 15,289,133.00 |\n| Total Education National Partnership payments          |     | -             | 12,614,398.00 | -            | -            | -            | 2,191,557.00 | -            | 483,178.00 | 15,289,133.00 |\n|                                                        |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Community Services                                     |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Specialist disability services                         | x   | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00  | 3,653,000.00 | -            | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00   | 2,472,000.00 | 507,000.00 | 29,297,000.00 |\n| Transition to NDIS in WA                               | x   | -             | -             | -            | 5,952,090.00 | -            | -            | -            | -          | 5,952,090.00  |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments |     | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00  | 3,653,000.00 | 5,952,090.00 | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00   | 2,472,000.00 | 507,000.00 | 35,249,090.00 |\n|                                                        |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Affordable Housing                                     |     |               |               |              |              |              |              |              |            |               |\n| Homelessness                                           | x   | 2,501,000.00  | 1,899,000.00  | 2,392,000.00 | 1,247,000.00 | 739,000.00   | 233,000.00   | 126,000.00   | 443,000.00 | 9,580,000.00  |\n| Total Affordable Housing National Partnership payments |     | 2,501,000.00  | 1,899,000.00  | 2,392,000.00 | 1,247,000.00 | 739,000.00   | 233,000.00   | 126,000.00   | 443,000.00 | 9,580,000.00  |\n\n  \n\n|                                                                       |     | NSW            | VIC           | QLD            | WA            | SA             | TAS           | ACT          | NT            | Total          |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------------- | ------------- | -------------- | ------------- | -------------- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------- | -------------- |\n| Infrastructure                                                        |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program                                     | x   |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Investment Rail                                                       | x   | -              | 250,000.00    | 10,900,000.00  | -             | 105,000,000.00 | -             | -            | -             | 116,150,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road                 | x   | 264,100,000.00 | 24,155,000.00 | 76,336,250.00  | 58,060,000.00 | 44,000,000.00  | 1,719,353.00  | -            | 5,130,000.00  | 473,500,603.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States                          | x   | 895,046.00     | -             | 3,000,000.00   | -             | -              | 350,000.00    | -            | -             | 4,245,046.00   |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments                               | x   | 1,513,000.00   | 25,000.00     | -              | -             | -              | -             | -            | -             | 1,538,000.00   |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States                                      | x   | -              | 612,000.00    | 3,814,000.00   | 93,000.00     | -              | -             | -            | 1,375,000.00  | 5,894,000.00   |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package                                         | x   |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| ARF - IIP - National Highway Upgrade Programme                        | x   | -              | 400,000.00    | -              | -             | -              | -             | -            | -             | 400,000.00     |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package - New Investments                       | x   |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| ARF - IIP - New Investments (unallocated)                             | x   | -              | -             | 50,603,500.00  | -             | -              | -             | -            | 2,000,000.00  | 52,603,500.00  |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments                    |     | 266,508,046.00 | 25,442,000.00 | 144,653,750.00 | 58,153,000.00 | 149,000,000.00 | 2,069,353.00  | -            | 8,505,000.00  | 654,331,149.00 |\n|                                                                       |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Environment                                                           |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Water for the Future - Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure | x   | -              | -             | 1,666,960.00   | -             | -              | 5,191,456.00  | -            | -             | 6,858,416.00   |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments                       |     | -              | -             | 1,666,960.00   | -             | -              | 5,191,456.00  | -            | -             | 6,858,416.00   |\n|                                                                       |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Other                                                                 |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Developing Demand-Driver Infrastructure for the Tourism Industry      | x   | -              | -             | -              | -             | -              | -             | -            | 260,000.00    | 260,000.00     |\n| Total Other National Partnership payments                             |     | -              | -             | -              | -             | -              | -             | -            | 260,000.00    | 260,000.00     |\n|                                                                       |     |                |               |                |               |                |               |              |               |                |\n| Total National Partnership Payments                                   |     | 284,568,620.05 | 48,022,117.11 | 154,430,846.35 | 66,448,211.31 | 153,166,591.63 | 10,900,692.59 | 2,741,900.06 | 10,570,522.28 | 730,849,501.38 |","sortOrder":6}],"analysis":{"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination performs exactly the function intended by the Federal Financial Relations framework: authorising specific grant payments to states for agreed outputs, reforms, and projects. The scope remains tightly focused on the single payment event of 7 February 2018."},"complexity_factors":["Very short document (4 operative clauses plus schedule)","No defined terms section","No cross-references to other legislation beyond implicit authority under the Federal Financial Relations Act","Simple tabular structure showing payment allocations","Straightforward conditional logic: 'amounts specified... are to be paid'","Minimal legal machinery—essentially a payment instruction with a schedule"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises the Australian Government to pay over $730 million to states and territories (on 7 Feb 2018) to fund nationally‑agreed programs the states deliver. Funds target vaccines, school chaplaincy, disability and homelessness services, water and environment work, and—predominantly—infrastructure (roads, rail, bridges, heavy‑vehicle safety).\n\nIt matters because it’s how Commonwealth revenue is redistributed to states to deliver shared services and large projects."},"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"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":4,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination fits the established function of Federal Financial Relations national partnership determinations: it allocates Commonwealth funds to States/Territories for specified programs and records amounts and recipients. It does not expand the statutory framework or introduce new subject‑matter beyond the ordinary purpose of making national partnership payments; it is a routine scheduling of payments rather than a change in scope of the national partnership payment scheme."},"complexity_factors":["3 short operative clauses in the instrument (name, commencement, determination) plus reference to Schedule 1","Schedule 1 contains a detailed allocation table across 8 jurisdictions and multiple program categories","Approximately 40+ distinct payment line items (multiple programs with per‑jurisdiction entries and totals)","Single payment date specified (7 February 2018) which concentrates timing complexity","No definitions or performance conditions included in the determination text — detail is delegated to Schedule 1 or external agreements","Some entries are marked unallocated or aggregate program headings, producing interpretive choices about internal allocation","Limited cross‑references within the instrument (mainly to Schedule 1), so legal logic is simple but operational mapping requires consulting external program agreements"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this instrument does (mechanically)\n\n- This is a Commonwealth determination that directs a one‑off set of national partnership payments to the States and Territories. It names the instrument (section 1), starts on the day it is made (section 2) and, in section 3, authorises the Commonwealth to pay the amounts listed in Schedule 1.\n- Schedule 1 (Table 1) lists the dollar amounts, by program category and by State/Territory, for payment on 7 February 2018. The table groups payments under headings such as Health, Education, Community Services, Affordable Housing, Infrastructure, Environment and Other, and shows a total per jurisdiction and a national total.\n\nWho it affects\n\n- The direct recipients are the States and Territories (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory). The payments are federal grants to those jurisdictions (see section 3 and Schedule 1).\n- Indirectly affected parties include program administrators in those States/Territories (who will spend the money on the listed outputs/projects), the end users of those programs (for example, users of health or homelessness services), and the Commonwealth’s budget/taxpayers (because the Commonwealth funds the payments).\n\nWhy it matters (claimed purpose and how it operates)\n\n- The instrument says these payments are for three purposes: to support delivery of specified outputs or projects, to facilitate specified State reforms, or to reward States for nationally significant reforms (section 3). The Schedule identifies the specific programs and dollar amounts that implement that claim.\n- Mechanically, the Commonwealth decides (by making this determination) the recipients and amounts; the payments are then made to State/Territory treasuries/agencies in accordance with the Schedule. The instrument is a funding allocation rather than new primary legislation.\n\nTesting the claimed purpose against practical trade‑offs, incentives and implementation points\n\n- Who pays and who benefits: The Commonwealth pays the amounts in Schedule 1; States/Territories receive the funds and decide operational delivery of the listed outputs or projects. This reallocates fiscal resources from the federal level to jurisdictions named in the table (see section 3 and Schedule 1).\n- Concentrated benefits and distribution: The Schedule shows substantial variation by jurisdiction and program. For example, large infrastructure payments are concentrated in particular jurisdictions (see Infrastructure rows in Schedule 1). Those concentrated payments create concentrated benefits (specific State projects) and dispersed costs (borne by the Commonwealth budget/taxbase).\n- Incentives for State behaviour: Because payments are labelled to support delivery, facilitate reforms, or reward reforms (section 3), States receive financial incentives tied to program categories. That can encourage States to pursue the specified projects/reforms, but the instrument itself sets only amounts and program labels; it does not, in the text provided, specify performance conditions or reporting requirements within the determination (Schedule 1 gives program names and amounts; any conditions would be found in associated agreements or program rules outside this instrument).\n- Compliance and administrative burden: The determination is an allocation schedule. It refers to Schedule 1 for further information (section 4). If program‑level conditions, milestones, acquittals or reporting exist, they will typically appear in the underlying national partnership agreements or program guidelines rather than in this determination. That means administrative requirements for States may exist, but they are not detailed here.\n- Implementation risk and timing: The payments are tied to a single payment date (7 February 2018). If delivery requires staged funding or ongoing payments, this one‑date allocation could require States to manage cash flow and match funding or wait for further determinations.\n- Opportunity costs and substitution effects: States might use these Commonwealth funds to expand or accelerate the named programs, or they might substitute Commonwealth funds for their own budgets and reallocate their prior spending elsewhere. The determination does not itself lock in how States must adjust their broader budgets.\n- Unallocated or flexible items: The Schedule includes some items marked as unallocated or as program categories where amounts are directed to the States generally (for example some Infrastructure entries). Such entries create discretionary choice about how funds are used within the program scope.\n\nKey legal references in the instrument\n\n- Instrument name: section 1.  Commencement: section 2 (day made).  Operative direction to pay the amounts and purposes: section 3.  Location of the detailed allocations and program descriptions: Schedule 1 and the Table in Schedule 1 (see section 4).\n\nBottom line\n\n- This determination is a routine Commonwealth funding instrument that specifies who receives federal national partnership payments, how much each jurisdiction receives by program, and the stated program purposes. The legal text sets out amounts and recipients; program conditions, performance requirements and administrative detail (if any) are typically handled in separate national partnership agreements or program rules rather than in the short operative clauses of this determination (see section 3 and Schedule 1)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-130-february-2018","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-130-february-2018/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-130-february-2018/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-130-february-2018/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-130-february-2018/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-130-february-2018/documents"}}