NT Budget

What infrastructure projects are in the budget?

BP4 The Infrastructure Program

BP4 outlines the government’s infrastructure works planned for the budget year: new and continuing (revoted) capital projects, as well as capital grants and repairs and maintenance. It includes descriptions of projects and the sources of funding for each project, by agency.

  • Capital works are building and engineering works that create an asset, for example, constructing health clinics, roads and public housing.
  • Capital grants are provided to fund construction of or upgrade assets owned, or to be owned once constructed, by non-government entities.
  • Repairs and maintenance works are projects undertaken to maintain existing government assets in working condition, keep an asset functioning at its required capacity but not enhance the asset or extend its useful life in a significant way.

The headline figure used to measure the annual infrastructure program is ‘total infrastructure payments’ and is reported in BP4 Table 1.

Read The Infrastructure Program (BP4) PDF (482.0 KB).

BP4, Table 1: Total infrastructure payments

2026-27 Budget
ProgramCash
  $M $M
General government  
Capital works 4 254 1 454
Northern Territory funded   932
Externally funded   521
Capital grants1  228
Repairs and maintenance   331
Infrastructure-related expenses   18
Total general government2 2 030
   
Public non financial corporations  
Capital works   547
Capital grants   
Repairs and maintenance   159
Total public non financial corporations2 706
Total infrastructure payments2 2 736

1  Excludes payments between Territory-controlled entities.
2  Includes non-cash transfers to local government and non-government entities.

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