Australian Human Rights Commission
Australian Human Rights Commission
Attorney-General's portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 53
- Contract value (all years): 49,156,895 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 2,013,698 AUD
- APS headcount: 201
- Budget 2026-27: 42,449 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 542,840 AUD
- Directory roles: 8
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (16)
- 2025-05-14 — Data breach hits AHRC
- 2024-06-06 — AHRC portal to highlight human cost of the pandemic
- 2023-08-09 — Respect@Work resources released ahead of AHRC’s new regulator role
- 2022-07-27 — Bill introduced in effort to restore AHRC’s status
- 2022-05-16 — AHRC boss calls for federal human rights legislation
- 2021-09-05 — Lawyer and human rights practitioner picked for AHRC role
- 2021-08-29 — Australian Human Rights Commission urges commonwealth to expand Afghan refugee intake
- 2021-06-16 — AHRC calls on Home Affairs to address COVID-19 risks in detention centres
- 2021-05-30 — AHRC calls for establishment of AI safety commissioner
- 2021-03-17 — Prevention key to AHRC’s anti-racism framework, says NGO
- 2021-03-16 — Adopt anti-racism framework, urges Australian Human Rights Commission
- 2020-09-09 — Australian Human Rights Commission launches free age-inclusive workplace training program in NSW
- 2020-08-05 — ABF defends Christmas Island reopening on Twitter, AHRC ‘deeply concerned’
- 2019-08-06 — AHRC calls on Australian Muslims to complete survey that might help inform the delivery of public services to their communities
- 2017-06-16 — Gillian Triggs to headline Power to Persuade symposium after AHRC term expires
- 2015-02-26 — Tom Burton: how ‘independent’ is the AHRC anyway?
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-27 — Movers & Shakers: Changes at the top across the nation
- 2026-08-25 — Set the Standard team to lead Western Power culture probe
- 2026-08-10 — The Census needs to catch up to modern Australia
- 2026-07-02 — Theatre of the absurd: A Winter’s Tale in Canberra
- 2026-07-02 — Farrell unveils terms for parliamentary support system review
- 2026-06-03 — AI must work for an ageing workforce, not against it
- 2026-05-26 — Six months after Briggs, the NACC shows why transparency in appointments cannot be optional
- 2026-05-05 — Inspector-general of aged care announces resignation
- 2026-04-26 — Human rights advocates support review of automated aged care assessment tool
- 2026-03-16 — Why the anti-racism framework isn’t fit for purpose
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 26.0% | at this date |
| % Female | 82.6% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 1.5% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 55.7% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 23.9% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 19.0% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 71.2% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 94.3% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 10.0% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 8.9% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 201 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 41.2 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 2.9 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 6.6% | at this date |
APSC APS Employment Data, counting this agency including any bodies beneath it. Headcount, not FTE — the APSED release does not publish FTE.
Year by year
| Measure | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 135 | 127 | 126 | 117 | 117 | 142 | 143 | 143 | 175 | 176 | 185 | 216 | 218 | 212 | |
| Contracts | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 14 | 11 | ||||||||
| Contract value | $233,796 | $8,544,360 | $840,778 | $1,718,268 | $29,532,644 | $3,770,315 | $4,516,735 | ||||||||
| Budget ($000) | 41,161 | 42,449 | |||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 18 | 17 | 8 | 18 | 26 | 10 | |||||||||
| Top total pay | $499,166 | $488,119 | $434,515 | $525,892 | $542,840 | $480,712 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero.
Sources — annual reports
Each link opens transparency.gov.au — the published source the figures were read from. The label names the table to look for.
° The portal does not publish a path for this report, so the link opens the agency's reports on transparency.gov.au rather than that year directly. Pick the year from there.
