Department of Parliamentary Services
Department of Parliamentary Services
Parliamentary Departments (not a portfolio) portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 2,794
- Contract value (all years): 1,075,090,453 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 140,196,159 AUD
- APS headcount: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
- Budget 2026-27: 303,753 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 561,624 AUD
- Directory roles: 24
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (40)
- 2026-07-27 — Can do: DPS discloses $120,000 spend on fizzy drinks
- 2026-07-22 — DPS staff taken to task over social media breaches
- 2026-06-30 — ANAO set to look again at DPS IT processes
- 2026-06-12 — Auditor warns DPS to improve its cybersecurity
- 2026-05-31 — Training call out to DPS staff during estimates
- 2026-05-25 — Lines orders broad DPS review of privilege compliance
- 2026-05-14 — DPS urged to get its data-handling principles in order
- 2026-05-13 — Senators sent to AusTender to uncover DPS legal spending
- 2026-05-07 — Monitoring of SES emails within rules, DPS says
- 2026-04-21 — Secretary Series with Jaala Hinchcliffe, Secretary of the Department of Parliamentary Services
- 2026-04-14 — DPS investigating the cause of One Nation policy leak
- 2026-03-15 — DPS fronts private Senate hearing over data handling in Saunders payment probe
- 2026-03-08 — DPS to wait until budget week for privileges verdict
- 2026-02-24 — Short wait until committee decides DPS’ fate over data handling
- 2026-02-15 — Crawler bots overloaded parliamentary website, says DPS CIO
- 2026-02-09 — DPS did not consult Senate clerk on application of privilege rules
- 2026-02-02 — AGD backs DPS on privilege as Senate probes data handling, legal panel choices
- 2026-01-21 — DPS rushes to replace its ‘end of life’ security radio rig ‘ASAP’
- 2025-12-21 — DPS performance report has more hits than misses
- 2025-12-02 — Jaala Hinchcliffe: Department of Parliamentary Services secretary
- 2025-12-02 — Rob Stefanic: Department of Parliamentary Services former secretary
- 2025-12-01 — Round three of senators vs DPS on privilege issues in Senate estimates
- 2025-12-01 — DPS staffers sacked, sanctioned following Saunders investigation
- 2025-11-11 — Whistleblowers must be protected by DPS, advocates say
- 2025-11-10 — Hitchcliffe concerned DPS staff ‘intentionally’ withheld evidence
- 2025-11-06 — Diabolical pressure cooker imperils yet another DPS secretary
- 2025-11-05 — DPS leaders clash with Hume over sackings
- 2025-11-02 — Senators to get a second crack at DPS over possible privilege breaches
- 2025-10-02 — DPS examination delayed by a fortnight
- 2025-08-20 — DPS scraps $1.5 million privacy pod plan
- 2025-08-04 — Citizenship quiz just ‘routine’, DPS says
- 2025-07-23 — Why is DPS asking about staff citizenship status?
- 2025-06-22 — DPS executives attend chalk-and-talk session on values
- 2025-06-16 — Work digs for DPS staff to cost $67.8 million over more than a decade
- 2025-06-10 — Parliamentary furniture deemed unfit for modification, DPS says
- 2025-03-27 — DPS completes investigation into former secretary
- 2025-03-10 — Acting DPS secretary makes it official
- 2025-03-04 — ANAO considers DPS audit amid governance, spending concerns
- 2025-02-23 — Senate reveals DPS secretary Rob Stefanic was sacked over ‘loss of trust’
- 2025-01-20 — All but one bullying and harassment claims investigated, DPS says
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-26 — Victoria announces ‘common sense’ public service cuts
- 2026-08-09 — PBO shuts down Hume’s questions on cybersecurity hygiene
- 2026-06-28 — NACC committee dives into appointment of next commissioner
- 2026-05-26 — WhatsApp breach revealed during estimates
- 2026-05-04 — SES email accounts monitored in attempt to uncover media leaks
- 2026-03-30 — No privileged material found in Saunders payment probe, Senate document says
- 2026-03-26 — Clerks concerned about IT searches, submission says
- 2026-03-03 — Several federal departments lack formal policy to tackle gender pay gap
- 2026-02-23 — ‘One trick pony’ Hinchcliffe wants to meet culture challenge head-on
- 2026-02-10 — Imminent release of parliamentary workplace culture survey
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 26 | $78,318,126 |
| Consultancy | 25 | $922,207 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manteena Security Aust Pty Ltd (39 135 926 046) | — | $21,237,845 | 2020-21 |
| Lendlease Building Pty Limited (97 000 098 162) | — | $17,132,025 | 2020-21 |
| Manteena Commercial Pty Ltd (56 614 438 989) | — | $9,246,639 | 2020-21 |
| ActewAGL Retail (46 221 314 841) | — | $8,811,816 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Dimeo Cleaning Services Pty Ltd (42 470 275 516) | — | $8,350,244 | 2020-21 |
| NTT Australia (65 003 371 239) | — | $7,746,266 | 2021-22 |
| Wormald Australia (80 008 399 004) | — | $1,875,808 | 2021-22 |
| Telstra Corporation Ltd (33 051 175 556) | — | $1,692,676 | 2021-22 |
| Axios IT (94 114 708 753) | — | $1,248,717 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Australian Trucking Association Pty Ltd (25 055 583 714) | — | $862,969 | 2021-22 |
| Guida Moseley Brown P/L (34 101 197 246) | — | $267,441 | 2020-21 |
| Synergy Group Australia Pty Ltd (65 119 369 827) | — | $177,852 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Year by year
| Measure | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contracts | 1 | 358 | 425 | 338 | 458 | 468 | 375 | 311 | 60 | |
| Contract value | $4,455 | $123,231,130 | $129,480,726 | $150,211,166 | $236,733,153 | $196,260,765 | $60,776,134 | $80,613,267 | $97,779,656 | |
| Budget ($000) | 276,771 | 303,753 | ||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 16 | 4 | 2 | 8 | 12 | 12 | ||||
| Top total pay | $561,624 | $486,005 | $0 | $478,531 | $474,958 | $549,650 |
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.
