Australian Security Intelligence Organisation

Home Affairs portfolio

Verified figures

• Contracts (all years): no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
• Contract value (all years): no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
• APS headcount: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
• Budget 2026-27: 785,445 thousand AUD
• Highest total remuneration: 803,964 AUD
• Directory roles: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil

Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.

Coverage — named in the headline (40)

• 2026-06-24 — ASIO admits agency limits after Bondi antisemitic mass shooting
• 2026-03-11 — ‘Surplus to requirements’: Former ASIO boss quits Bondi probe
• 2025-12-21 — ASIO shifts focus from terrorists to spies
• 2025-12-14 — ASIO maintains terror threat level as ‘probable’ following Bondi massacre
• 2025-11-19 — ASIO chief issues repeat warning to Defence staff over clearance bragging
• 2025-11-12 — ASIO was once called ASS: Burgess lets rip on outages as a weapon of foreign interference
• 2025-11-04 — ASIO reveals foreign operations remit
• 2025-08-13 — Farewell, sunset: Making ASIO’s questioning powers permanent
• 2025-02-19 — ASIO, AEC move to thwart foreign interference in federal election
• 2024-12-15 — Could you officially tell ASIO to go jump? That job is now available
• 2024-08-05 — ‘Australia’s security environment is degrading’: ASIO lifts threat level amid AFP pay dispute
• 2024-07-29 — Questions swirl around cyber after ASIO decamps from Home Affairs
• 2024-03-05 — Keating calls for ASIO boss to be sacked
• 2024-03-02 — ASIO sends overt signal to spies eyeing AUKUS
• 2023-10-18 — ASIO’s Mike Burgess pays personal attention to Beijing’s visiting professor
• 2023-07-31 — Former ASIO chief to probe Home Affairs over detention centre bribery allegations
• 2023-07-11 — ASIO accidentally outs rejected spooks in group email BCC stuff-up
• 2023-05-25 — Nazi symbol ban would help law enforcement act earlier, says ASIO
• 2023-03-30 — O’Neil centralises security clearances 50 years after Murphy-led raid on ASIO HQ
• 2023-02-16 — ASIO opposes publication of its university monitoring activities
• 2023-02-14 — O’Neil wants ASIO crackdown on foreign interference, names Iran
• 2023-02-13 — Religious ideological extremism ASIO’s main caseload, says Burgess
• 2022-10-26 — AUKUS, anti-vaxxers and business espionage rise as threats: ASIO chief
• 2022-10-06 — ASIO chief Mike Burgess warned of hacks targeting data hoarding honeypots in 2015
• 2022-06-02 — AFP switches back to A-G department, ASIO stays in Home Affairs
• 2022-02-16 — ASIO boss labels politicisation of security ‘not helpful’
• 2022-02-10 — ASIO foiled foreign interference plot in lead up to election
• 2021-07-06 — Ex ASIO boss, APS secretary join National Security College
• 2021-03-17 — Foreign spies recruited government employee for classified information, says ASIO
• 2020-11-17 — ASIO warns government staff to be cautious online, in new foreign interference campaign
• 2020-10-20 — Level of foreign interference highest within local government, ASIO boss says
• 2020-10-16 — ASIO ramps up investigations into foreign attempts to ‘secretly co-opt’ Australian politicians
• 2020-08-21 — ‘Room for further improvement’ of new ASIO guidelines
• 2020-06-09 — ASIO boss Mike Burgess warns of rise of extremism in Australia during COVID-19
• 2019-09-11 — Why is there no APS college? ASIO head Duncan Lewis says public service needs its own school
• 2019-08-08 — From code-breaking and cyber security to counter-terrorism: ASD boss picked to lead ASIO
• 2019-07-29 — Who’s in line to lead ASIO? Major moves draw congratulations, trepidation and speculation
• 2019-05-06 — Labor declares ‘great respect’ for ASIO and ASIS after Paul Keating calls for a clean-out
• 2019-02-01 — Why does water administration require ‘cloak and dagger’ secrecy akin to ASIO?
• 2014-10-02 — Nameless ASIO powers not accountable, inspector-general warns

Passing mentions (10 shown)

Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.

• 2026-07-06 — Negative vetting clearance costs surge 50%
• 2026-06-25 — Whip-smart teams, clarity of purpose, staying nimble: Home Affairs boss talks impact
• 2026-05-13 — Budget 2026: Federal agency ups and downs
• 2026-05-07 — Seven years on, still no new electronic surveillance law
• 2026-03-19 — Taskforces galore as Australia’s transport sector wobbles
• 2026-03-12 — Movers & Shakers: Treasury counts on executive refresh
• 2026-03-09 — The lucky country: The top 100 public sector earners in Australia
• 2026-02-24 — Antisemitism definition may divide Bondi attack probe
• 2026-02-22 — NSW Crime Commission chief becomes Canberra’s intelligence toecutter
• 2026-02-11 — AFP boosts capacity to chase bad actors

Year by year

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

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° 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.

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