{"id":"F2018L00521","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 132 (April 2018)","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-132-april-2018","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":100018,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2018L00521-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. 132 (April 2018)","content":"# Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 132 (April 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. 132 (April 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 9 April 2018","content":"### Table 1: National Partnership Payments for payment on 9 April 2018\n\n```html\n

State

Amount of National Partnership Payments

New South Wales

$236,602,417.00

Victoria

$117,146,341.00

Queensland

$121,994,512.00

Western Australia

$110,594,792.78

South Australia

$86,442,683.00

Tasmania

$35,080,175.00

Australian Capital Territory

$635,334.00

Northern Territory

$14,064,918.00

Total

$722,561,172.78

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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 9 April 2018 ($)\n\n| | | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | ACT | NT | Total |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ------------- | -------------- |\n| Health | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Other health payments | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Encourage more Clinical Trials | x | - | - | - | - | - | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 150,000.00 |\n| Adult Public Dental Services | x | 25,793,041.00 | - | - | - | - | 2,542,984.00 | - | - | 28,336,025.00 |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments | | 25,793,041.00 | - | - | - | - | 2,542,984.00 | - | - | 28,486,025.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Education | | | | | | | | | | |\n| National quality agenda for early childhood education and care | x | 6,939,376.00 | 5,439,341.00 | 3,792,593.00 | 1,517,860.00 | 1,580,933.00 | 304,395.00 | 459,334.00 | 296,168.00 | 20,330,000.00 |\n| Online Safety programmes in school (non-government schools) | x | - | - | - | 119,370.81 | - | - | - | - | 119,370.81 |\n| Online Safety programmes in school (government schools) | x | - | - | - | 306,611.31 | - | - | - | - | 306,611.31 |\n| Total Education National Partnership payments | | 6,939,376.00 | 5,439,341.00 | 3,792,593.00 | 1,943,842.12 | 1,580,933.00 | 304,395.00 | 459,334.00 | 296,168.00 | 20,755,982.12 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Skills | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | X | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total Skills National Partnership payments | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Community Services | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Home and community care | x | - | - | - | 33,029,891.66 | - | - | - | - | 33,029,891.66 |\n| Specialist disability services | x | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00 | 3,653,000.00 | - | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00 | - | 507,000.00 | 26,825,000.00 |\n| Women's Safety Package - Technology Trials | x | - | - | 170,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 170,000.00 |\n| Transition to NDIS in WA | x | - | - | - | 6,574,059.00 | - | - | - | - | 6,574,059.00 |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments | | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00 | 3,823,000.00 | 39,603,950.66 | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00 | - | 507,000.00 | 66,598,950.66 |\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| Infrastructure | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Investment Rail | x | - | - | - | - | - | 4,450,000.00 | - | - | 4,450,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road | x | 154,030,000.00 | 99,790,000.00 | 81,340,000.00 | 67,800,000.00 | 21,111,250.00 | 23,882,908.00 | - | 12,768,750.00 | 460,722,908.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States | x | 456,000.00 | 1,350,000.00 | 3,799,244.00 | - | 115,500.00 | 600,000.00 | - | - | 6,320,744.00 |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments | x | - | 200,000.00 | 147,675.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 347,675.00 |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States | x | - | 300,000.00 | 4,000,000.00 | - | 200,000.00 | - | - | - | 4,500,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - National Highway Upgrade Programme | x | - | 2,000,000.00 | 2,700,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 4,700,000.00 |\n| ARF - IIP - Western Sydney Roads | x | 34,070,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 34,070,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package - New Investments | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - New Investments (unallocated) | x | - | - | - | - | 60,000,000.00 | - | - | - | 60,000,000.00 |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments | | 188,556,000.00 | 103,640,000.00 | 91,986,919.00 | 67,800,000.00 | 81,426,750.00 | 28,932,908.00 | - | 12,768,750.00 | 575,111,327.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Environment | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Water for the Future - Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure | x | - | - | - | - | - | 2,028,888.00 | - | - | 2,028,888.00 |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments | | - | - | - | - | - | 2,028,888.00 | - | - | 2,028,888.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Other | | | | | | | | | | |\n| North Queensland Stadium | x | - | - | 20,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 20,000,000.00 |\n| Total Other National Partnership payments | | - | - | 20,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 20,000,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Contingent Payments | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total Contingent Payments National Partnership payments | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| General Revenue Assistance | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total General Revenue Assistance | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Not Attributed | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total National Partnership Payments | | 236,602,417.00 | 117,146,341.00 | 121,994,512.00 | 110,594,792.78 | 86,442,683.00 | 35,080,175.00 | 635,334.00 | 14,064,918.00 | 722,561,172.78 |","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments","sectionType":"part","heading":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 9 April 2018 ($)","content":"## Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 9 April 2018 ($)\n\n| | | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | ACT | NT | Total |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | --- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ---------- | ------------- | -------------- |\n| Health | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Other health payments | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Encourage more Clinical Trials | x | - | - | - | - | - | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 150,000.00 |\n| Adult Public Dental Services | x | 25,793,041.00 | - | - | - | - | 2,542,984.00 | - | - | 28,336,025.00 |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments | | 25,793,041.00 | - | - | - | - | 2,542,984.00 | - | - | 28,486,025.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Education | | | | | | | | | | |\n| National quality agenda for early childhood education and care | x | 6,939,376.00 | 5,439,341.00 | 3,792,593.00 | 1,517,860.00 | 1,580,933.00 | 304,395.00 | 459,334.00 | 296,168.00 | 20,330,000.00 |\n| Online Safety programmes in school (non-government schools) | x | - | - | - | 119,370.81 | - | - | - | - | 119,370.81 |\n| Online Safety programmes in school (government schools) | x | - | - | - | 306,611.31 | - | - | - | - | 306,611.31 |\n| Total Education National Partnership payments | | 6,939,376.00 | 5,439,341.00 | 3,792,593.00 | 1,943,842.12 | 1,580,933.00 | 304,395.00 | 459,334.00 | 296,168.00 | 20,755,982.12 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Skills | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | X | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total Skills National Partnership payments | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Community Services | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Home and community care | x | - | - | - | 33,029,891.66 | - | - | - | - | 33,029,891.66 |\n| Specialist disability services | x | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00 | 3,653,000.00 | - | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00 | - | 507,000.00 | 26,825,000.00 |\n| Women's Safety Package - Technology Trials | x | - | - | 170,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 170,000.00 |\n| Transition to NDIS in WA | x | - | - | - | 6,574,059.00 | - | - | - | - | 6,574,059.00 |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments | | 12,813,000.00 | 6,168,000.00 | 3,823,000.00 | 39,603,950.66 | 2,696,000.00 | 988,000.00 | - | 507,000.00 | 66,598,950.66 |\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| Infrastructure | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Investment Rail | x | - | - | - | - | - | 4,450,000.00 | - | - | 4,450,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road | x | 154,030,000.00 | 99,790,000.00 | 81,340,000.00 | 67,800,000.00 | 21,111,250.00 | 23,882,908.00 | - | 12,768,750.00 | 460,722,908.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States | x | 456,000.00 | 1,350,000.00 | 3,799,244.00 | - | 115,500.00 | 600,000.00 | - | - | 6,320,744.00 |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments | x | - | 200,000.00 | 147,675.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 347,675.00 |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States | x | - | 300,000.00 | 4,000,000.00 | - | 200,000.00 | - | - | - | 4,500,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - National Highway Upgrade Programme | x | - | 2,000,000.00 | 2,700,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 4,700,000.00 |\n| ARF - IIP - Western Sydney Roads | x | 34,070,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 34,070,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package - New Investments | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - New Investments (unallocated) | x | - | - | - | - | 60,000,000.00 | - | - | - | 60,000,000.00 |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments | | 188,556,000.00 | 103,640,000.00 | 91,986,919.00 | 67,800,000.00 | 81,426,750.00 | 28,932,908.00 | - | 12,768,750.00 | 575,111,327.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Environment | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Water for the Future - Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure | x | - | - | - | - | - | 2,028,888.00 | - | - | 2,028,888.00 |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments | | - | - | - | - | - | 2,028,888.00 | - | - | 2,028,888.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Other | | | | | | | | | | |\n| North Queensland Stadium | x | - | - | 20,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 20,000,000.00 |\n| Total Other National Partnership payments | | - | - | 20,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 20,000,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Contingent Payments | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | x | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total Contingent Payments National Partnership payments | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| General Revenue Assistance | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total General Revenue Assistance | | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Not Attributed | | | | | | | | | | |\n| | | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total National Partnership Payments | | 236,602,417.00 | 117,146,341.00 | 121,994,512.00 | 110,594,792.78 | 86,442,683.00 | 35,080,175.00 | 635,334.00 | 14,064,918.00 | 722,561,172.78 |","sortOrder":6}],"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"},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This determination does not change the broader legal scope of the Federal Financial Relations framework. It is a routine, transactional instrument that authorises specific, one‑off payments under existing National Partnership arrangements: it allocates money to specific projects and reforms rather than creating new categories of federal power or expanding the statutory purposes of National Partnership payments. In other words, the instrument operationalises spending decisions within the original scope of the National Partnership mechanism rather than growing that mechanism’s legal scope."},"complexity_factors":["Single operative clause setting payments (clause 3) with a cross‑reference to Schedule 1","One commencement clause (clause 2) and immediate effect on making payments","Schedule 1 contains a detailed table of program line‑items across 8 jurisdictions (approx. 30 distinct program lines / entries)","One payment date specified (9 April 2018) — no ongoing indexing or multi‑year phasing in the determination text","No separate interpretation/defined‑terms section in the text provided (limits internal cross‑referencing complexity)","Mostly tabular numeric allocations rather than layered conditional statutory rules (reduces legal complexity)"],"plain_english_summary":"**What this instrument does (mechanically)**\n\n- This determination authorises the Australian Government to pay specified amounts to each State and Territory on a single date (9 April 2018) as National Partnership payments (see clause 3 and Table 1 / Schedule 1).\n- The payments are earmarked as grants to States and Territories to: (a) support delivery of specified outputs or projects, (b) facilitate specified reforms, or (c) reward nationally significant reforms (clause 3).\n- The total amount authorised is $722,561,172.78, allocated across the eight jurisdictions. The largest single program category in Schedule 1 is Infrastructure (total about $575.1 million). Major single-state totals include New South Wales $236,602,417.00; Queensland $121,994,512.00; Victoria $117,146,341.00; Western Australia $110,594,792.78.\n\n**Who it affects**\n\n- The Commonwealth (Australian Government) is the payer. The determination gives legal authority for those payments to be made.\n- The eight States and Territories are the payees and the immediate recipients of the funds (NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT).\n- State agencies, service providers and project contractors who deliver the specified outputs (health services, schools programs, roads, housing, water infrastructure, etc.) will be the operational actors that receive or use the grants once States pass funds on or contract services.\n- Australian taxpayers bear the cost through the Commonwealth budget because the payments are federal expenditures.\n\n**Why it matters (purpose claims and practical effects)**\n\n- The instrument is a routine funding determination under the Federal Financial Relations framework: it converts the policy intention of National Partnership agreements into an actual, one‑off payment schedule and amounts (clause 3; Schedule 1).\n- By earmarking money for particular projects and reforms, the Commonwealth directs federal funds to priority activities (for example, infrastructure, specialist disability services, adult public dental services, homelessness). That changes States’ resource constraints and enables or accelerates particular projects that might not proceed at the same scale from State funding alone.\n\n**Incentives, costs and trade‑offs**\n\n- Who decides: the Commonwealth (through the determination) decides the amount and timing of these payments (clauses 2–3 and Table/Schedule). That concentrates fiscal authority over these specific grants at the federal level for the activities listed.\n- Behavioural effect on States: receipt of earmarked federal funds creates an incentive for States to deliver the outputs or reforms specified in Schedule 1 (clause 3). Where National Partnership payments are conditional (the determination requires grants “to support delivery of specified outputs or projects”), States will generally need to meet performance or reporting requirements set under the underlying National Partnership agreement (the determination itself lists purposes and amounts but refers to Schedule 1 for details).\n- Concentrated benefits: many large line items are concentrated in a small number of jurisdictions and program areas (for example, infrastructure roads and bridges account for most dollars). Those jurisdictions and sectors therefore receive concentrated benefit from this particular payment round.\n- Diffuse costs: the cost is borne through the Commonwealth budget and therefore ultimately by taxpayers; the allocation reduces the Commonwealth’s capacity to spend the same funds on other priorities (opportunity cost).\n\n**Implementation burden and risk**\n\n- Administrative/compliance burden sits with the States (to implement the projects and meet any reporting/performance requirements that attach to the National Partnership) and with Commonwealth agencies (to monitor and authorise payment). The determination names purposes and amounts but relies on the underlying agreements for operational conditions—so implementation depends on those administrative arrangements.\n- Implementation risk includes delayed delivery, mismatch between Commonwealth timing and State project schedules, or disputes over whether State delivery satisfies the conditions attached to the payments. This instrument itself fixes amounts and the payment date but does not set out detailed performance rules in the text provided here (see Schedule 1 for program allocations).\n\n**Practical points of interest in Schedule 1**\n\n- Schedule 1 breaks the total into program lines (Health, Education, Community Services, Affordable Housing, Infrastructure, Environment, Other). Infrastructure is the largest category by far (roughly $575.1m of the $722.6m total).\n- Some visible single-item allocations: Adult Public Dental Services (NSW + TAS totalling $28,336,025), Western Sydney Roads (NSW $34,070,000), North Queensland Stadium (QLD $20,000,000), and a large unallocated ‘‘ARF - IIP - New Investments (unallocated)’’ entry of $60,000,000 to South Australia (Schedule 1).\n\n**Bottom line**\n\nThis determination is an administrative instrument that converts National Partnership priorities into concrete payment amounts and a payment date. It shifts federal budget resources to specified State projects and reforms, creating incentives for States to deliver the listed outputs while imposing implementation and reporting responsibilities on State and Commonwealth agencies (clause 3 and Schedule 1)."},"kimi_summary":{"content_quality":"ok","complexity_score":2,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"This is a routine administrative determination made under the Federal Financial Relations Act 2009. It operates exactly as intended by the parent Act: specifying particular amounts to be paid to states for National Partnership agreements. There is no scope creep; it is a single tranche of payments for a specific date."},"complexity_factors":["Very short document (4 operative clauses plus schedules)","No defined terms section or interpretation provisions","Simple conditional structure: 'amounts specified in the table are to be paid'","No cross-references to other legislation beyond implied reference to Federal Financial Relations Act","Schedule 1 contains repetitive tabular data presented twice (appears to be a formatting duplication in the source)","Straightforward purpose clauses (support outputs, facilitate reforms, reward reforms) with no nested exceptions"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises the Treasurer to pay over $722 million to states and territories on 9 April 2018 under National Partnership agreements. The funding backs health, education, community services (including disability and aged care), homelessness, major infrastructure (roads, rail, bridges—the largest share), rural water and the North Queensland Stadium. New South Wales and Western Australia receive the biggest shares; the ACT only small allocations. It formalises federal funding flows to states and creates legal authority for these specific payments."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-132-april-2018","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-132-april-2018/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-132-april-2018/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-132-april-2018/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-132-april-2018/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-132-april-2018/documents"}}