Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial
Veterans' Affairs (part of the Defence Portfolio) portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 105
- Contract value (all years): 612,502,087 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 17,252,974 AUD
- APS headcount: 369
- Budget 2026-27: 94,301 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 598,353 AUD
- Directory roles: 20
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (6)
- 2026-06-04 — Australian War Memorial visitor surge ahead of Afghanistan gallery opening
- 2025-11-09 — New picks for AWM council unveiled
- 2023-03-19 — Two decades after Iraq’s invasion by Coalition troops, Australian War Memorial galleries tell the story
- 2021-11-23 — Controversial Australian War Memorial works receive go ahead
- 2020-07-29 — Australian War Memorial volunteers told they could lose jobs over redevelopment comments
- 2019-11-10 — Winged warriors: the pigeons of the Australian War Memorial
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-06 — Movers & Shakers: Bumper Band 1 week
- 2026-05-20 — ‘Match fit’: Army recruit and officer training to change
- 2026-05-13 — Budget 2026: Federal agency ups and downs
- 2025-11-13 — Movers & Shakers: Director-general departs Australian Submarine Agency
- 2025-04-27 — PM condemns Anzac Day protest as lawyers warn against rising anti-DEI rhetoric
- 2025-03-25 — APS headcount growth halves as small agencies shed staff to feed big ones
- 2025-01-23 — Movers & Shakers: War Memorial director reappointed
- 2024-11-10 — Remembrance Day: Nation commemorates ultimate sacrifice
- 2024-11-07 — Movers & Shakers: Board appointments aplenty
- 2024-10-07 — War memorial development feature to cut 1,400 tonnes of CO2 annually
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 7.5% | at this date |
| % Female | 54.7% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 1.9% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 77.5% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 19.2% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 7.4% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 67.8% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 66.7% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 6.2% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 11.1% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 369 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 42.6 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 4.9 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 6.9% | 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 | 2010-11 | 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 | 302 | 358 | 350 | 291 | 302 | 320 | 322 | 331 | 334 | 336 | 334 | 328 | 350 | 376 | 372 | |
| Contracts | 28 | 5 | 3 | 14 | 24 | 14 | 13 | 4 | ||||||||
| Contract value | $85,272,478 | $12,500,773 | $39,248,387 | $361,501,399 | $35,573,167 | $30,343,804 | $32,809,234 | $15,252,845 | ||||||||
| Budget ($000) | 73,557 | 94,301 | ||||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 8 | 16 | 16 | 31 | 30 | 16 | ||||||||||
| Top total pay | $470,000 | $419,358 | $484,111 | $582,612 | $582,226 | $598,353 |
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.
