Creative Australia
Creative Australia
Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport & Arts 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: 339,501 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 495,151 AUD
- Directory roles: 6
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (8)
- 2025-07-04 — Creative Australia, the Sabsabi debacle and unconscious bias
- 2025-05-28 — Creative Australia chair retires
- 2025-03-18 — Creative Australia calls in consultants for governance review
- 2023-08-24 — Curtains up on cultural body Creative Australia
- 2023-02-01 — Timeline for the new Creative Australia cultural bodies released
- 2023-01-30 — Creative Australia established under federal cultural policy revamp
- 2019-03-21 — Movers & shakers: Australia Council and some fishy appointments
- 2014-08-18 — Funding review: Australia Council extends grants model
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2025-11-27 — Movers & Shakers: Groundbreaker to lead NIAA
- 2025-11-23 — Services Australia among agencies celebrated for workplace inclusion
- 2025-11-18 — Whitlam & Fraser, part 7: 1983 – Fraser falls, Hawke rises
- 2025-09-04 — Movers & Shakers: DAFF secretary out, AIATSIS welcomes chair
- 2025-07-31 — Movers & Shakers: Cormann keeps OECD job, Glyn Davis’ new gig
- 2025-07-17 — Movers & Shakers: Home Affairs shuffles leadership, CPSU Victoria turfs secretary
- 2025-07-03 — Movers & Shakers: Arts leaders appointed to Create NSW and writing council
- 2025-05-29 — Movers & Shakers: Appointment fever sweeps NSW, Victoria, and Queensland
- 2024-11-28 — Movers & Shakers: Expert panel to examine electricity grid
- 2024-09-26 — Movers & Shakers: Energy infrastructure leaders revealed
Names over time
What each source called this agency, and in which years. Taken from the sources themselves, not from a register of establishment dates — those are not published.
| Reported as | Source | Years | Rows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Australia Council ⚠️ | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2018-19 to 2022-23 | 117 |
| Australia Council ⚠️ | Annual report governance tables | 2018-19 to 2022-23 | 163 |
| Creative Australia | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2023-24 to 2024-25 | 52 |
| Creative Australia | Annual report governance tables | 2023-24 to 2024-25 | 10 |
| Creative Australia | Portfolio Budget Statements | 2024-25 to 2029-30 | 40 |
⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Australia Council (2018-19 to 2022-23). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Year by year
| Measure | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Budget ($000) | 367,245 | 339,501 | |||||||
| KMP disclosed | 26 | 23 | 24 | 17 | 26 | 36 | 16 | ||
| Top total pay | $203,430 | $360,847 | $398,701 | $439,154 | $441,208 | $495,151 | $444,495 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero. ⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Australia Council (2018-19 to 2022-23). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
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.
