Defence Housing Australia
Defence Housing Australia
Defence 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: 659
- Budget 2026-27: 1,052,146 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 615,595 AUD
- Directory roles: 5
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (1)
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
- 2026-07-23 — Movers & Shakers: Directors named for Perth Mint operator
- 2026-05-13 — Budget 2026: Federal agency ups and downs
- 2026-04-30 — Movers & Shakers: Coaldrake joins ANU reform efforts
- 2025-12-18 — Movers & Shakers: Gonski to lead antisemitism taskforce
- 2025-08-04 — Public servants positive about AI use in service delivery: Mandarin survey
- 2025-07-24 — Movers & Shakers: Olympic appointments to games authorities
- 2024-12-19 — Movers & Shakers: Eminent person appointed for robodebt review
- 2024-11-12 — We want you! Or you… or you: Defence’s ongoing recruitment headache
- 2024-07-25 — Movers & Shakers: DHA boss steps down, first NSW biosecurity commissioner
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising and campaigns | 48 | $6,263,705 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universal McCann | — | $1,998,530 | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| McCann | — | $1,173,749 | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2021-22 |
| Audience Group | — | $707,069 | 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Heard Agency | — | $604,041 | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Campaign Edge Sprout | — | $548,295 | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Simple | — | $299,208 | 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Colmar Brunton | — | $209,550 | 2018-19, 2019-20, 2020-21 |
| Field Works Market Research | — | $106,636 | 2018-19 |
| Creative.adm | — | $98,570 | 2020-21 |
| McCann World Group | — | $75,130 | 2020-21 |
| Kellaborate | — | $69,253 | 2021-22 |
| REA Group | — | $66,001 | 2020-21 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 15.9% | at this date |
| % Female | 70.0% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 1.4% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 73.6% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 5.8% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 10.3% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 73.1% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 46.5% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 3.6% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 14.2% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 659 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 42.6 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 5.5 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 8.8% | 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 | 614 | 658 | 680 | 617 | 625 | 676 | 681 | 685 | 685 | 580 | 561 | 590 | 609 | 658 | 659 | |
| SES | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| Budget ($000) | 1,062,332 | 1,052,146 | ||||||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 38 | 13 | 26 | 24 | 24 | 14 | ||||||||||
| Top total pay | $454,676 | $509,567 | $615,595 | $543,668 | $555,894 | $432,388 |
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.
