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Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts Measures No. 1) Regulations 2025

I, the Honourable Sam Mostyn AC, Governor‑General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 30 October 2025

Sam Mostyn AC

Governor‑General

By Her Excellency’s Command

Katy Gallagher

Minister for Finance

1 Name

This instrument is the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Amendment (Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts Measures No. 1) Regulations 2025.

2 Commencement

(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details
1. The whole of this instrument	The day after this instrument is registered.	31 October 2025

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3 Authority

This instrument is made under the Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Act 1997.

4 Schedules

Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1—Amendments

Financial Framework (Supplementary Powers) Regulations 1997

1 In the appropriate position in Part 3 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

Grant to the Australian National Academy of Music Ltd.

To fund the Australian National Academy of Music Ltd. to redevelop, restore and enhance its South Melbourne Town Hall premises, as a measure that is peculiarly adapted to the government of a nation and cannot otherwise be carried on for the benefit of the nation.

2 In the appropriate position in Part 4 of Schedule 1AB (table)

Insert:

740	Investing in LGBTIQA+ Community Connection	To support the provision by LGBTIQA+ media organisations of broadcasting services and digital and online content.
741	Journalism Assistance Fund	To support Australian news publishers and safeguard media diversity in Australia by providing funding for the production or distribution of online or digital public interest news content, as a measure with respect to postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services (within the meaning of paragraph 51(v) of the Constitution).
742	Maritime Skills and Training Initiative	To increase the number of seafarers certified in accordance with the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watchkeeping for Seafarers, as a measure to give effect to Australia’s obligations under Articles I and VI of that Convention, including by funding the employers of seafarers to assist trainees to complete required periods of seagoing service.