{"id":"F2018L01261","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 135 (29 June 2018)","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-135-29-june-2018","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":97938,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2018L01261-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. 135 (29 JUNE 2018)","content":"# Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No. 135 (29 JUNE 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. 135 (29 June 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 29 June 2018","content":"### Table 1: National Partnership Payments for payment on 29 June 2018\n\n```html\n

State

Amount of National Partnership Payments

New South Wales

$583,237,845.00

Victoria

$171,721,671.00

Queensland

$408,529,472.23

Western Australia

$833,368,100.00

South Australia

$278,098,457.00

Tasmania

$39,698,096.00

Australian Capital Territory

$10,544,123.00

Northern Territory

$38,580,822.00

Total

$2,363,778,586.23

\n```\n\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 29 June 2018 ($)\n\n| | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | ACT | NT | Total |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ---------------- |\n| Health | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health infrastructure | | | | | | | | | |\n| Albury-Wodonga Lab | - | 500,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 500,000.00 |\n| Health Infrastructure Projects | 13,850,000.00 | - | 550,000.00 | 2,480,000.00 | - | - | - | 10,900,000.00 | 27,780,000.00 |\n| Western Australia Hospitals Infrastructure Package | - | - | - | 188,900,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 188,900,000.00 |\n| Health services | | | | | | | | | |\n| Expansion of the BreastScreen Australia Program | 4,713,984.00 | - | - | - | 1,042,318.00 | 317,995.00 | 241,441.00 | 150,164.00 | 6,465,902.00 |\n| Indigenous health | | | | | | | | | |\n| Northeren Territory Remote Aboriginal Invetsment | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,769,000.00 | 2,769,000.00 |\n| Other health payments | | | | | | | | | |\n| Encourage more Clinical Trials | - | - | 428,520.00 | 357,100.00 | 191,043.00 | - | 205,327.00 | 191,043.00 | 1,373,033.00 |\n| Adult Public Dental Services | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,771,822.00 | 1,771,822.00 |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments | 18,563,984.00 | 500,000.00 | 978,520.00 | 191,737,100.00 | 1,233,361.00 | 317,995.00 | 446,768.00 | 15,782,029.00 | 229,559,757.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Education | | | | | | | | | |\n| Early childhood education - Universal access to early education | 36,972,381.00 | - | 26,359,712.00 | - | - | - | 2,708,355.00 | - | 66,040,448.00 |\n| Total Education National Partnership payments | 36,972,381.00 | - | 26,359,712.00 | - | - | - | 2,708,355.00 | - | 66,040,448.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Skills | | | | | | | | | |\n| Skilling Australians Fund | 99,925,000.00 | 34,632,000.00 | 39,400,000.00 | 9,827,000.00 | 19,141,000.00 | 7,689,000.00 | 6,084,000.00 | 3,058,000.00 | 219,756,000.00 |\n| Total Skills National Partnership payments | 99,925,000.00 | 34,632,000.00 | 39,400,000.00 | 9,827,000.00 | 19,141,000.00 | 7,689,000.00 | 6,084,000.00 | 3,058,000.00 | 219,756,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Community Services | | | | | | | | | |\n| Women's Safety Package - Technology Trials | - | 60,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 60,000.00 |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments | - | 60,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 60,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program | | | | | | | | | |\n| Investment Rail | - | 1,150,000.00 | - | 513,300,000.00 | 23,189,000.00 | 3,150,000.00 | - | - | 540,789,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road | 301,270,000.00 | 5,913,000.00 | 316,396,096.00 | 79,990,000.00 | 206,533,000.00 | 22,409,604.00 | - | 6,499,330.00 | 939,011,030.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States | 1,999,140.00 | 619,240.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,618,380.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-To States | - | 755,944.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 755,944.00 |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments | 1,205,000.00 | 45,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,250,000.00 |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States | (44,652.00) | 1.00 | - | - | 2,345,939.00 | 440,000.00 | - | - | 2,741,288.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - National Highway Upgrade Programme | - | 2,200,000.00 | 966,545.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 3,166,545.00 |\n| ARF - IIP - Western Sydney Roads | 100,950,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100,950,000.00 |\n| Nourthern Australia Roads Projects - To payments | - | - | 17,040,000.00 | 34,420,000.00 | - | - | - | 8,430,000.00 | 59,890,000.00 |\n| Other infrastructure payments | | | | | | | | | |\n| Murray-Darling Basin regional economic diversification | - | 3,165,000.00 | 1,901,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 5,066,000.00 |\n| Northern Australia Beef Roads Fund | - | - | 2,902,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 1,150,000.00 | 4,052,000.00 |\n| Wifi on Trains | 2,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,000,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package - New Investments | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - New Investments (unallocated) | - | - | - | - | 10,390,000.00 | - | - | - | 10,390,000.00 |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments | 407,379,488.00 | 13,848,185.00 | 339,205,641.00 | 627,710,000.00 | 242,457,939.00 | 25,999,604.00 | - | 16,079,330.00 | 1,672,680,187.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Environment | | | | | | | | | |\n| Assistance for pest and weed management in drought-affected areas | 1,500,000.00 | - | 1,000,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 | 500,000.00 | - | - | - | 4,000,000.00 |\n| Environmental management of the former Rum Jungle mine site | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,216,000.00 | 2,216,000.00 |\n| Established Pest and Weed Management | - | - | - | 1,012,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 1,012,000.00 |\n| Great Artesian Basin sustainability initiative | - | - | 420,563.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 420,563.00 |\n| Implementing Water Reform in the Murray Darling Basin | - | 6,799,989.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6,799,989.00 |\n| Tasmanian Wilderness | - | - | - | - | - | 1,662,947.00 | - | - | 1,662,947.00 |\n| Disaster resilience | 6,786,000.00 | 4,313,879.00 | - | - | - | 2,610,000.00 | 1,305,000.00 | 1,445,463.00 | 16,460,342.00 |\n| Water for the Future - Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure | 2,867,136.00 | 100,193,876.00 | 141,036.23 | - | 3,266,157.00 | - | - | - | 106,468,205.23 |\n| Water Development Fund - Feasibility Component | 1,232,892.00 | 1,380,780.00 | 1,024,000.00 | 2,082,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 5,719,672.00 |\n| Water Infrastructure Development Fund - Capital Component | - | 8,400,000.00 | - | - | 11,500,000.00 | - | - | - | 19,900,000.00 |\n| National fire danger rating system | 100,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100,000.00 |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments | 12,486,028.00 | 121,088,524.00 | 2,585,599.23 | 4,094,000.00 | 15,266,157.00 | 4,272,947.00 | 1,305,000.00 | 3,661,463.00 | 164,759,718.23 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Other | | | | | | | | | |\n| Developing Demand-Driver Infrastructure for the Tourism Industry | 5,112,170.00 | 1,592,962.00 | - | - | - | 1,418,550.00 | - | - | 8,123,682.00 |\n| Total Other National Partnership payments | 5,112,170.00 | 1,592,962.00 | - | - | - | 1,418,550.00 | - | - | 8,123,682.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Contingent Payments | | | | | | | | | |\n| Natural disaster relief | 2,798,794.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,798,794.00 |\n| Total Contingent Payments National Partnership payments | 2,798,794.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,798,794.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total National Partnership Payments | 583,237,845.00 | 171,721,671.00 | 408,529,472.23 | 833,368,100.00 | 278,098,457.00 | 39,698,096.00 | 10,544,123.00 | 38,580,822.00 | 2,363,778,586.23 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |","sortOrder":5},{"sectionNumber":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments","sectionType":"part","heading":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 29 June 2018 ($)","content":"## Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 29 June 2018 ($)\n\n| | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | ACT | NT | Total |\n| --------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ---------------- |\n| Health | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health infrastructure | | | | | | | | | |\n| Albury-Wodonga Lab | - | 500,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 500,000.00 |\n| Health Infrastructure Projects | 13,850,000.00 | - | 550,000.00 | 2,480,000.00 | - | - | - | 10,900,000.00 | 27,780,000.00 |\n| Western Australia Hospitals Infrastructure Package | - | - | - | 188,900,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 188,900,000.00 |\n| Health services | | | | | | | | | |\n| Expansion of the BreastScreen Australia Program | 4,713,984.00 | - | - | - | 1,042,318.00 | 317,995.00 | 241,441.00 | 150,164.00 | 6,465,902.00 |\n| Indigenous health | | | | | | | | | |\n| Northeren Territory Remote Aboriginal Invetsment | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,769,000.00 | 2,769,000.00 |\n| Other health payments | | | | | | | | | |\n| Encourage more Clinical Trials | - | - | 428,520.00 | 357,100.00 | 191,043.00 | - | 205,327.00 | 191,043.00 | 1,373,033.00 |\n| Adult Public Dental Services | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,771,822.00 | 1,771,822.00 |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments | 18,563,984.00 | 500,000.00 | 978,520.00 | 191,737,100.00 | 1,233,361.00 | 317,995.00 | 446,768.00 | 15,782,029.00 | 229,559,757.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Education | | | | | | | | | |\n| Early childhood education - Universal access to early education | 36,972,381.00 | - | 26,359,712.00 | - | - | - | 2,708,355.00 | - | 66,040,448.00 |\n| Total Education National Partnership payments | 36,972,381.00 | - | 26,359,712.00 | - | - | - | 2,708,355.00 | - | 66,040,448.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Skills | | | | | | | | | |\n| Skilling Australians Fund | 99,925,000.00 | 34,632,000.00 | 39,400,000.00 | 9,827,000.00 | 19,141,000.00 | 7,689,000.00 | 6,084,000.00 | 3,058,000.00 | 219,756,000.00 |\n| Total Skills National Partnership payments | 99,925,000.00 | 34,632,000.00 | 39,400,000.00 | 9,827,000.00 | 19,141,000.00 | 7,689,000.00 | 6,084,000.00 | 3,058,000.00 | 219,756,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Community Services | | | | | | | | | |\n| Women's Safety Package - Technology Trials | - | 60,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 60,000.00 |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments | - | 60,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 60,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program | | | | | | | | | |\n| Investment Rail | - | 1,150,000.00 | - | 513,300,000.00 | 23,189,000.00 | 3,150,000.00 | - | - | 540,789,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road | 301,270,000.00 | 5,913,000.00 | 316,396,096.00 | 79,990,000.00 | 206,533,000.00 | 22,409,604.00 | - | 6,499,330.00 | 939,011,030.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States | 1,999,140.00 | 619,240.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,618,380.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-To States | - | 755,944.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 755,944.00 |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments | 1,205,000.00 | 45,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,250,000.00 |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States | (44,652.00) | 1.00 | - | - | 2,345,939.00 | 440,000.00 | - | - | 2,741,288.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - National Highway Upgrade Programme | - | 2,200,000.00 | 966,545.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 3,166,545.00 |\n| ARF - IIP - Western Sydney Roads | 100,950,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100,950,000.00 |\n| Nourthern Australia Roads Projects - To payments | - | - | 17,040,000.00 | 34,420,000.00 | - | - | - | 8,430,000.00 | 59,890,000.00 |\n| Other infrastructure payments | | | | | | | | | |\n| Murray-Darling Basin regional economic diversification | - | 3,165,000.00 | 1,901,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 5,066,000.00 |\n| Northern Australia Beef Roads Fund | - | - | 2,902,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 1,150,000.00 | 4,052,000.00 |\n| Wifi on Trains | 2,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,000,000.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package - New Investments | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - New Investments (unallocated) | - | - | - | - | 10,390,000.00 | - | - | - | 10,390,000.00 |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments | 407,379,488.00 | 13,848,185.00 | 339,205,641.00 | 627,710,000.00 | 242,457,939.00 | 25,999,604.00 | - | 16,079,330.00 | 1,672,680,187.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Environment | | | | | | | | | |\n| Assistance for pest and weed management in drought-affected areas | 1,500,000.00 | - | 1,000,000.00 | 1,000,000.00 | 500,000.00 | - | - | - | 4,000,000.00 |\n| Environmental management of the former Rum Jungle mine site | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,216,000.00 | 2,216,000.00 |\n| Established Pest and Weed Management | - | - | - | 1,012,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 1,012,000.00 |\n| Great Artesian Basin sustainability initiative | - | - | 420,563.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 420,563.00 |\n| Implementing Water Reform in the Murray Darling Basin | - | 6,799,989.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6,799,989.00 |\n| Tasmanian Wilderness | - | - | - | - | - | 1,662,947.00 | - | - | 1,662,947.00 |\n| Disaster resilience | 6,786,000.00 | 4,313,879.00 | - | - | - | 2,610,000.00 | 1,305,000.00 | 1,445,463.00 | 16,460,342.00 |\n| Water for the Future - Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure | 2,867,136.00 | 100,193,876.00 | 141,036.23 | - | 3,266,157.00 | - | - | - | 106,468,205.23 |\n| Water Development Fund - Feasibility Component | 1,232,892.00 | 1,380,780.00 | 1,024,000.00 | 2,082,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 5,719,672.00 |\n| Water Infrastructure Development Fund - Capital Component | - | 8,400,000.00 | - | - | 11,500,000.00 | - | - | - | 19,900,000.00 |\n| National fire danger rating system | 100,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 100,000.00 |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments | 12,486,028.00 | 121,088,524.00 | 2,585,599.23 | 4,094,000.00 | 15,266,157.00 | 4,272,947.00 | 1,305,000.00 | 3,661,463.00 | 164,759,718.23 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Other | | | | | | | | | |\n| Developing Demand-Driver Infrastructure for the Tourism Industry | 5,112,170.00 | 1,592,962.00 | - | - | - | 1,418,550.00 | - | - | 8,123,682.00 |\n| Total Other National Partnership payments | 5,112,170.00 | 1,592,962.00 | - | - | - | 1,418,550.00 | - | - | 8,123,682.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Contingent Payments | | | | | | | | | |\n| Natural disaster relief | 2,798,794.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,798,794.00 |\n| Total Contingent Payments National Partnership payments | 2,798,794.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,798,794.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total National Partnership Payments | 583,237,845.00 | 171,721,671.00 | 408,529,472.23 | 833,368,100.00 | 278,098,457.00 | 39,698,096.00 | 10,544,123.00 | 38,580,822.00 | 2,363,778,586.23 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |","sortOrder":6}],"analysis":{"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument solely specifies amounts to be paid and refers to Schedule 1 for project and reform details. The text contains no explicit amendment, expansion or narrowing of an earlier instrument; nothing in this determination itself indicates a change in scope from any prior measure."},"complexity_factors":["Detailed numeric schedule: many line items and large sums allocated by program and jurisdiction (Table 1 and Schedule 1).","Multiple program categories (health, education, skills, infrastructure, environment, contingent payments) increasing bookkeeping complexity.","Duplicates and repeated tables in the text increase risk of transcription or reconciliation errors.","Presence of contingent/adjustment items (e.g. a negative amount shown) that require interpretation for accounting treatment.","Minimal operative text: substantive effect depends on cross-reading Schedule 1 rather than on rules, so legal effect is driven by the schedule’s entries."],"plain_english_summary":"This determination requires the Commonwealth to pay $2,363,778,586.23 to the states and territories listed on 29 June 2018. The amounts are allocated by program area in Schedule 1 to fund specified projects, support delivery, facilitate reforms or reward reforms across health, education, skills, infrastructure, environment and related programs."},"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 determination performs exactly the function intended by the *Federal Financial Relations Act 2009* — making specific National Partnership Payments to states. It has not expanded beyond the original legislative purpose of providing a mechanism for conditional grants to states."},"complexity_factors":["Very short operative provisions (only 4 clauses)","No defined terms section — relies on definitions in the parent Act (*Federal Financial Relations Act 2009*)","No conditional logic or exceptions in the legislative text itself","Complexity is externalised: the actual policy conditions are in separate National Partnership Agreements not reproduced here","Schedule 1 is purely a data table (payment allocations) with no legal operative effect","Straightforward tabular format with simple arithmetic aggregation","No cross-references to other legislation beyond the enabling Act"],"plain_english_summary":"This instrument authorises the Commonwealth to pay $2.36 billion to Australia’s eight states and territories on 29 June 2018 as National Partnership Payments — conditional grants tied to specific agreements for projects, reforms and reward payments. \n\nMost funding (71%, $1.67B) targets infrastructure (roads, rail, hospitals); other key allocations cover skills, health, environment and early education, with Western Australia, New South Wales, Queensland and South Australia the largest recipients. It’s essentially a federal payment schedule that funds state-run major projects."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-135-29-june-2018","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-135-29-june-2018/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-135-29-june-2018/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-135-29-june-2018/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-135-29-june-2018/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-135-29-june-2018/documents"}}