Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority
Finance portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 99
- Contract value (all years): 38,220,066 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 20,020,808 AUD
- APS headcount: 62
- Budget 2026-27: 100,068 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 427,851 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 (2)
- 2019-07-31 — Sports anti-doping agency recognised with DFAT and IPEA in Public Sector Innovation Awards
- 2018-03-21 — Key case No. 1 and IPEA goes softly-softly on Joyce, Campion travel expenses
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-06-15 — Exemptions the biggest feature of Canberra’s new business KPMG ban
- 2026-06-04 — Movers & Shakers: ACT Reconciliation Council co-chair resigns
- 2026-05-13 — Budget 2026: Federal agency ups and downs
- 2025-12-15 — Top of their game: Senior public service appointments of 2025
- 2025-10-01 — Politicians’ travel perks out for consultation
- 2025-03-25 — APS headcount growth halves as small agencies shed staff to feed big ones
- 2025-02-13 — Movers & Shakers: APS scholarship chair revealed
- 2024-07-11 — Movers & Shakers: Defence changes command, Australia’s antisemitism envoy
- 2023-08-21 — Finance piloting website to display the federal government’s structure
- 2022-11-08 — From Choppergate to Disastergate: Troubled PEMS expenses system blowout doubles to $69 million
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 26 | $2,598,687 |
| Consultancy | 3 | $48,381 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Corporate Travel Management Group Pty Ltd (52005000895) | — | $944,544 | 2021-22 |
| Hays Personnel Services (47001407281) | — | $392,504 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| Semaphore Alliance Pty Ltd (87162736441) | — | $364,650 | 2021-22 |
| Roll Inn Pty Ltd (73153698036) | — | $247,316 | 2020-21 |
| BBG Services (83515740417) | — | $227,890 | 2020-21, 2021-22 |
| The ITSM HUB Pty Ltd (89165912087) | — | $169,130 | 2021-22 |
| Protiviti Pty Ltd (27108473909) | — | $88,700 | 2020-21 |
| Meltwater Australia Pty Ltd (91121849769) | — | $78,569 | 2020-21 |
| Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (74490121060) | — | $78,213 | 2020-21 |
| GMT Canberra Pty Ltd (81103672439) | — | $25,941 | 2020-21 |
| Workplace Research Associates P/L (11083481298) | — | $11,440 | 2020-21 |
| Amanda O’Rourke Executive Search (32152572319) | — | $11,000 | 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 | 14.8% | at this date |
| % Female | 79.0% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 61.3% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 1.6% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 19.7% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 47.5% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 78.9% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 1.6% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 21.7% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 62 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 39.7 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 8.6 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 11.7% | 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 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| APS headcount | 58 | 59 | 60 | 62 | 63 | 65 | 65 | 66 | 62 | |
| Contracts | 12 | 20 | 23 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 4 | ||
| Contract value | $1,361,915 | $1,631,550 | $11,296,617 | $1,139,651 | $1,224,241 | $1,166,491 | $388,793 | $20,010,808 | ||
| Budget ($000) | 93,030 | 100,068 | ||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 9 | 16 | 17 | 7 | 22 | 20 | 13 | |||
| Top total pay | $377,005 | $365,997 | $373,116 | $392,062 | $427,851 | $384,359 | $377,866 |
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.
