High Speed Rail Authority
High Speed Rail Authority
Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport & Arts portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 119
- Contract value (all years): 227,352,072 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 143,354,041 AUD
- APS headcount: 24
- Budget 2026-27: 395,358 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 564,586 AUD
- Directory roles: 1
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (1)
- 2023-02-23 — Recruitment starts for the High Speed Rail Authority
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-05-13 — Budget 2026: Federal agency ups and downs
- 2026-04-29 — Casting call issued for high-speed rail evangelists
- 2024-08-26 — Drilling commences for Sydney to Newcastle high-speed rail business case
- 2024-01-18 — Movers & Shakers: New assistant treasury secretaries, acting secretaries fill leadership gaps
- 2023-08-24 — Movers & Shakers: Peter Woolcott’s Monash University gig
- 2023-07-27 — Movers & Shakers: Woolcott’s ANZSOG chair replacement named
- 2023-06-15 — Movers & Shakers: When one secretary leaves, another enters
- 2023-06-08 — Movers & Shakers: Education secretaries appointments
- 2023-01-11 — What we want to see in the new season of Utopia
- 2022-11-27 — New season of bureaucratic comedy Utopia due to air in 2023
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 26.1% | at this date |
| % Female | 62.5% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 25.0% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 41.7% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 57.1% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 87.5% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 43.8% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 24 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 45.4 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 1.5 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 31.3% | 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 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 8 | 16 | 23 | 24 | |
| Contracts | 14 | 53 | 32 | 20 | |
| Contract value | $27,088,604 | $47,825,482 | $11,854,637 | $140,583,350 | |
| Budget ($000) | 8,220 | 395,358 | |||
| KMP disclosed | 14 | 6 | |||
| Top total pay | $267,005 | $564,586 |
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.
