{"id":"F2020L00861","name":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No.171 (June 2020)","slug":"federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-171-june-2020","collection":"legislative_instrument","jurisdiction":"commonwealth","status":"in_force","isInForce":true,"actNumber":null,"makingDate":null,"administeringDepartment":null,"currentVersion":{"id":145439,"registerId":"commonwealth-F2020L00861-current","compilationNumber":null,"startDate":"2026-04-03","status":"InForce","reasons":null,"registeredAt":null},"sections":[{"sectionNumber":"Federal Financial Relations (National Pa","sectionType":"part","heading":"Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No.171 (June 2020)","content":"# Federal Financial Relations (National Partnership Payments) Determination No.171 (June 2020)","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.171 (June 2020).","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 30 June 2020","content":"### Table 1: National Partnership Payments for payment on 30 June 2020\n\n```html\n

State

Amount of National Partnership Payments

New South Wales

$480,708,626.00

Victoria

$375,593,378.00

Queensland

$699,259,857.00

Western Australia

$139,500,732.00

South Australia

$78,485,797.00

Tasmania

$23,448,050.00

Australian Capital Territory

$7,031,866.00

Northern Territory

$55,436,266.00

Total

$1,859,464,572.00

\n```\n\nSchedule 1 to this determination provides further information on these payments.","sortOrder":4},{"sectionNumber":"Schedule 1","sectionType":"part","heading":"Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 30 June 2020 ($)","content":"# Schedule 1: Amounts of National Partnership Payments for payment on 30 June 2020 ($)\n\n| | NSW | VIC | QLD | WA | SA | TAS | ACT | NT | Total |\n| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | -------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------ | ------------- | ---------------- |\n| Health | | | | | | | | | |\n| Health infrastructure | | | | | | | | | |\n| Redevelopment of Strathalbyn | - | - | - | - | 700,000.00 | - | - | - | 700,000.00 |\n| Comprehensive Palliative Care | - | - | - | 1,034,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 1,034,000.00 |\n| Grace's Place | 4,100,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4,100,000.00 |\n| Fussell House accommodation | 1,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,000,000.00 |\n| Health services | | | | | | | | | |\n| Expansion of the BreastScreen Australia Program | 4,851,670.00 | 3,812,243.00 | 3,042,522.00 | 1,642,477.00 | 1,072,762.00 | 327,283.00 | 248,493.00 | 154,550.00 | 15,152,000.00 |\n| Bowel cancer screening for 50 year olds | 2,764,000.00 | 2,152,000.00 | 1,777,000.00 | 957,000.00 | 660,000.00 | 276,000.00 | 191,000.00 | 134,000.00 | 8,911,000.00 |\n| OzFoodNet | 367,000.00 | 270,000.00 | 269,000.00 | 212,000.00 | 212,000.00 | 195,000.00 | 147,000.00 | 152,000.00 | 1,824,000.00 |\n| Health care grants for the Torres Strait | - | - | 4,854,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 4,854,000.00 |\n| Vaccine preventable diseases surveillance | 210,000.00 | 197,000.00 | 170,000.00 | 87,000.00 | 84,000.00 | 38,000.00 | 38,000.00 | 52,000.00 | 876,000.00 |\n| Victorian cytology service | - | 10,464,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10,464,000.00 |\n| Adult Mental Health Centres | - | - | - | - | 2,000,000.00 | - | - | - | 2,000,000.00 |\n| Indigenous health | | | | | | | | | |\n| Torres Strait Health Protection Strategy - Saibai Island Health Clinic | - | - | 1,120,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 1,120,000.00 |\n| Northern Territory Remote Aboriginal Invetsment | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3,024,000.00 | 3,024,000.00 |\n| Other health payments | | | | | | | | | |\n| Encourage more Clinical Trials | 600,040.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 144,553.00 | 744,593.00 |\n| Community Health and Hospitals Program | - | - | - | 3,500,000.00 | - | - | 2,250,000.00 | 226,000.00 | 5,976,000.00 |\n| Adult Public Dental Services | - | - | - | - | - | - | 461,902.00 | - | 461,902.00 |\n| Veteran Wellbeing Centre | - | - | 2,050,000.00 | - | 2,900,000.00 | - | - | - | 4,950,000.00 |\n| Total Health National Partnership payments | 13,892,710.00 | 16,895,243.00 | 13,282,522.00 | 7,432,477.00 | 7,628,762.00 | 836,283.00 | 3,336,395.00 | 3,887,103.00 | 67,191,495.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Education | | | | | | | | | |\n| Defence industry school pathways programs | - | - | - | 600,000.00 | 600,000.00 | - | - | - | 1,200,000.00 |\n| Total Education National Partnership payments | - | - | - | 600,000.00 | 600,000.00 | - | - | - | 1,200,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Skills | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infection Control Training | - | - | - | 4,130,000.00 | - | 840,000.00 | - | - | 4,970,000.00 |\n| Total Skills National Partnership payments | - | - | - | 4,130,000.00 | - | 840,000.00 | - | - | 4,970,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Community Services | | | | | | | | | |\n| Women's Safety Package - Technology Trials | - | 35,000.00 | 100,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 135,000.00 |\n| Total Community Services National Partnership payments | - | 35,000.00 | 100,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 135,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Affordable Housing | | | | | | | | | |\n| Remote Indigenous housing | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19,050,000.00 | 19,050,000.00 |\n| Total Affordable Housing National Partnership payments | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 19,050,000.00 | 19,050,000.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure | | | | | | | | | |\n| Infrastructure Investment Program | | | | | | | | | |\n| Investment Rail | - | 85,611,110.00 | - | 11,600,000.00 | 17,000,000.00 | 4,547,500.00 | - | - | 118,758,610.00 |\n| Infrastructure Investment Programme - Investment Road | 179,067,398.00 | 221,707,942.00 | 165,588,963.00 | 37,215,686.00 | 22,008,894.00 | 15,900,624.00 | 1,256,482.00 | 5,698,095.00 | 648,444,084.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-Through States | 4,551,303.00 | 559,111.00 | 793,881.00 | 500,000.00 | 1,572,500.00 | - | - | - | 7,976,795.00 |\n| IIP Bridges Renewal Programme-To States | - | - | 400,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 400,000.00 |\n| Heavy Vehicle Safety - Through Payments | 1,562,136.00 | 425,000.00 | 1,326,800.00 | 112,600.00 | 322,000.00 | - | - | - | 3,748,536.00 |\n| Heavy vehicle safety - to States | - | 132,000.00 | 1,364,000.00 | 2,050,996.00 | 800,000.00 | - | - | - | 4,346,996.00 |\n| Black spot projects | - | - | - | - | - | 398,532.00 | - | - | 398,532.00 |\n| Roads of Strategic Importance | 247,795.00 | - | 500,000.00 | 26,300,000.00 | - | 587,111.00 | - | 13,259,000.00 | 40,893,906.00 |\n| Urban Congestion Fund | 4,500,000.00 | 21,700,000.00 | 25,000,000.00 | 14,440,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 65,640,000.00 |\n| Business Case Fund (Rail) | 6,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6,000,000.00 |\n| Major Business Case Fund (Road) | - | - | 7,500,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 7,500,000.00 |\n| Northern Australia Roads Projects - To payments | - | - | 2,000,000.00 | 26,300,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 28,300,000.00 |\n| National Rail Program | 14,323,800.00 | - | - | 1,412,000.00 | - | - | - | - | 15,735,800.00 |\n| Infrastructure Growth Package | | | | | | | | | |\n| ARF - IIP - National Highway Upgrade Programme | 10,880,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10,880,000.00 |\n| ARF - IIP - Western Sydney Roads | 216,200,871.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 216,200,871.00 |\n| Other infrastructure payments | | | | | | | | | |\n| Barkly Regional Deal | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 435,000.00 | 435,000.00 |\n| Western Sydney City Deal | 6,304,475.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6,304,475.00 |\n| Darwin City Deal | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10,400,000.00 | 10,400,000.00 |\n| Total Infrastructure National Partnership payments | 443,637,778.00 | 330,135,163.00 | 204,473,644.00 | 119,931,282.00 | 41,703,394.00 | 21,433,767.00 | 1,256,482.00 | 29,792,095.00 | 1,192,363,605.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Environment | | | | | | | | | |\n| Established Pest and Weed Management | - | - | - | 1,000,000.00 | 3,000,000.00 | - | - | - | 4,000,000.00 |\n| Great Artesian Basin sustainability initiative | - | - | - | - | 847,531.00 | - | - | - | 847,531.00 |\n| Implementing Water Reform in the Murray Darling Basin | 9,402,100.00 | 6,799,989.00 | 1,984,840.00 | - | 1,486,209.00 | - | 326,862.00 | - | 20,000,000.00 |\n| Disaster resilience | - | 3,340,800.00 | 4,802,400.00 | 2,505,600.00 | - | - | 1,044,000.00 | 1,044,000.00 | 12,736,800.00 |\n| Water for the Future - Sustainable Rural Water Use and Infrastructure | 4,131,335.00 | 11,135,620.00 | - | - | 8,624,085.00 | - | - | - | 23,891,040.00 |\n| Water Infrastructure Development Fund - Capital Component | - | - | - | - | 1,250,000.00 | - | - | - | 1,250,000.00 |\n| Lindenow Valley Water Security | - | 1,000,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1,000,000.00 |\n| Adelaide Desal to support water for fodder | - | - | - | - | 11,000,000.00 | - | - | - | 11,000,000.00 |\n| Total Environment National Partnership payments | 13,533,435.00 | 22,276,409.00 | 6,787,240.00 | 3,505,600.00 | 26,207,825.00 | - | 1,370,862.00 | 1,044,000.00 | 74,725,371.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Other | | | | | | | | | |\n| Family law information sharing | 742,000.00 | - | 88,000.00 | 296,000.00 | 88,000.00 | 208,000.00 | 273,000.00 | - | 1,695,000.00 |\n| Addressing insurance costs in north Queensland | - | - | 5,300,000.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 5,300,000.00 |\n| Legal Assistance Services Bushfires | 1,661,550.00 | 524,700.00 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2,186,250.00 |\n| Tourism Icons Package | - | - | - | - | - | 130,000.00 | - | - | 130,000.00 |\n| COVID-19 Legal Assistance Funding | 7,241,153.00 | 5,726,863.00 | - | 3,605,373.00 | 2,257,816.00 | - | 795,127.00 | 1,663,068.00 | 21,289,400.00 |\n| Total Other National Partnership payments | 9,644,703.00 | 6,251,563.00 | 5,388,000.00 | 3,901,373.00 | 2,345,816.00 | 338,000.00 | 1,068,127.00 | 1,663,068.00 | 30,600,650.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Contingent Payments | | | | | | | | | |\n| Disaster recovery funding arrangements | - | - | 469,228,451.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 469,228,451.00 |\n| Total Contingent Payments National Partnership payments | - | - | 469,228,451.00 | - | - | - | - | - | 469,228,451.00 |\n| | | | | | | | | | |\n| Total National Partnership Payments | 480,708,626.00 | 375,593,378.00 | 699,259,857.00 | 139,500,732.00 | 78,485,797.00 | 23,448,050.00 | 7,031,866.00 | 55,436,266.00 | 1,859,464,572.00 |","sortOrder":5}],"analysis":{"flash_summary_failed":{"failed":true,"reason":"A positive credit balance is required for all requests, including BYOK, so fallback providers remain available. 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The scope remains limited to specifying payment amounts and their purposes for a single payment date (30 June 2020), consistent with the standard function of such determinations."},"complexity_factors":["No defined terms section—language is plain and self-explanatory","Simple structure: name, commencement, determination clause, payment table, detailed schedule","No conditional logic, exceptions, or nested provisions","No cross-references to other legislation beyond implied reference to the Federal Financial Relations Act","Content is essentially a payment schedule with descriptive labels—functionally a budget allocation instrument","Single operative clause (clause 3) with three straightforward purposes (outputs, reforms, rewards)"],"plain_english_summary":"This determination authorises about $1.86 billion in National Partnership Payments to Australia’s eight states and territories—tied federal grants for specific projects, reforms and service delivery. Funds focus on infrastructure (largest share), disaster recovery (mainly Queensland), health, environment and COVID-related legal support, with money paid directly to state governments.\n\nIt matters because these conditional payments let Canberra steer state priorities and coordinate national reforms, delivering targeted benefits—better hospitals, roads, water security and disaster resilience—to communities across Australia."},"flash_summary":{"complexity_score":3,"scope_assessment":{"changed":false,"description":"The instrument sets out a single, self-contained list of payments and purposes (Commencement cl.2; Determination cl.3; Schedule 1). The text does not indicate any change from an earlier scope within the instrument itself; it specifies the payments and intended purposes as its operative scope."},"complexity_factors":["Large number of discrete line items and program-specific allocations across sectors (see Schedule 1 table).","Multiple recipients: eight jurisdictions (NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT) each with different amounts (Schedule 1 totals).","Presence of a very large contingent payment (Disaster recovery funding: $469,228,451) which is separately identified (Schedule 1, Contingent Payments).","Fixed single payment date for the amounts (payment on 30 June 2020) which concentrates administrative action (Table 1 heading and Schedule 1 title).","Legal mechanism is a straightforward grant direction under clause 3 but relies entirely on Schedule 1 for scope and quantum (cl.3; Schedule 1).","Implementation and compliance tasks are borne by States (to deliver specified outputs/projects and reforms), implied by the grant purpose language (cl.3 and Schedule 1), creating monitoring and reporting burdens though those processes are not detailed in the instrument."],"plain_english_summary":"This Determination requires the Commonwealth to pay $1,859,464,572 to the States and Territories on 30 June 2020, as listed in Schedule 1. Clause 3 says the payments are grants to support delivery of specified outputs or projects, to facilitate State reforms, or to reward nationally significant reforms. It affects Commonwealth and State/Territory budgets and the agencies delivering the named health, infrastructure, environment and other programs (see cl.3 and Schedule 1)."}},"importantCases":[],"_links":{"self":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-171-june-2020","history":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-171-june-2020/history","analysis":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-171-june-2020/analysis","conflicts":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-171-june-2020/conflicts","importantCases":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-171-june-2020/important-cases","documents":"/api/acts/federal-financial-relations-national-partnership-payments-determination-no-171-june-2020/documents"}}