Federal Court of Australia
Federal Court of Australia
Attorney-General's portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 1,597
- Contract value (all years): 636,352,999 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 35,516,723 AUD
- APS headcount: 1,763
- Budget 2026-27: 530,919 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 1,179,408 AUD
- Directory roles: 7
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
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
- 2026-06-18 — Movers & Shakers: First chief of Veteran and Family Wellbeing
- 2026-05-13 — Budget 2026: Federal agency ups and downs
- 2025-11-20 — Movers & Shakers: Climate Change Authority announces CEO
- 2025-11-18 — The highest- and lowest-paid jobs in the APS
- 2025-09-18 — Movers & Shakers: ASIC names market disciplinary panel
- 2025-09-15 — Blunting of freedom of information prioritises opacity
- 2025-08-06 — Correction regarding ASIC v Open4Sale Global Ltd
- 2025-05-21 — ATO loses bid to move IT security chief’s sacking to Federal Court
- 2025-03-23 — Two department heads issue legal warnings on flaky punitive welfare
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Federal Court of Australia | APSC APS Employment Data | 2010-11 to 2025-26 | 2,025 |
| Federal Court of Australia | APSC agency metrics | 2010-11 to 2025-26 | 143 |
| Federal Court Statutory Agency ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2016-17 to 2021-22 | 1,009 |
| Federal Court Statutory Agency ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2016-17 to 2021-22 | 103 |
| Federal Court of Australia | Annual report KMP disclosure | 2018-19 to 2024-25 | 82 |
| Federal Court of Australia | Annual report governance tables | 2018-19 to 2024-25 | 281 |
| Federal Court of Australia | AusTender (names as at today, not as at the contract) | 2019-20 to 2026-27 | 1,597 |
| Federal Court of Australia | Annual report expenditure | 2020-21 to 2024-25 | 36 |
| Federal Court of Australia | Portfolio Budget Statements | 2024-25 to 2029-30 | 190 |
⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Federal Court Statutory Agency (2016-17 to 2021-22). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 20 | $45,727,038 |
| Category not stated in the report | 5 | $614,000 |
| Consultancy | 11 | $601,875 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| MSS Security Pty Ltd (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 29100573966 | $13,295,374 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, 2024-25 |
| Evolve FM Pty Ltd | 52605472580 | $8,237,249 | 2020-21, 2021-22, 2024-25 |
| Built Pty Limited | 24083928045 | $7,475,739 | 2021-22, 2022-23 |
| NTT Australia Pty Ltd | 65003371239 | $5,889,244 | 2020-21 |
| Fredon Security Pty Limited | 55600423836 | $3,251,305 | 2020-21 |
| ENGIE Services AV Technologies (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 61007012544 | $2,950,156 | 2020-21, 2022-23 |
| Macquarie Telecom Pty Limited | 21082930916 | $2,485,000 | 2021-22 |
| Thomas Reuters (Professional) Australia Limited (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 64058914668 | $2,130,867 | 2021-22, 2022-23 |
| Pricewaterhousecoopers Consulting (Australia) Pty Limited | 20607773295 | $384,000 | 2021-22 |
| Centre for Judicial Studies Pty Ltd | 77088423394 | $266,823 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Diacher Pty Limited | 44006170958 | $161,653 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Law and Development Partners Pty Ltd | 66116168695 | $104,280 | 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 | 21.0% | at this date |
| % Female | 71.4% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 2.4% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 71.0% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 37.3% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 17.6% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 78.8% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 70.3% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 2.2% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 8.8% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 1,763 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 39.1 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 3.1 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 6.8% | 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 | 2012-13 | 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 | 481 | 484 | 1,270 | 1,200 | 1,202 | 1,188 | 1,266 | 1,382 | 1,479 | 1,603 | 1,730 | 1,763 | |
| Contracts | 162 | 210 | 251 | 274 | 206 | 238 | 223 | 33 | |||||
| Contract value | $95,492,694 | $73,451,153 | $68,723,389 | $124,277,071 | $86,057,669 | $88,078,146 | $91,501,633 | $8,771,244 | |||||
| Budget ($000) | 497,530 | 530,919 | |||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 16 | 18 | 16 | 8 | 16 | 8 | |||||||
| Top total pay | $1,037,402 | $1,064,904 | $1,063,007 | $1,062,973 | $1,097,339 | $1,179,408 |
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 Federal Court Statutory Agency (2016-17 to 2021-22). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is. 9 value(s) for this agency are withheld as implausible against its own median — see Outputs/agency_year_series.csv for them and why.
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.
