National Disability Insurance Agency
National Disability Insurance Agency
Health, Disability and Ageing 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: 11,052
- Budget 2026-27: 56,470,908 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 849,660 AUD
- Directory roles: 122
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (25)
- 2026-02-19 — NDIA employee charged with fraud, abuse of public office
- 2025-11-12 — Head to lead National Disability Insurance Agency
- 2025-07-30 — Scott McNaughton steps up as NDIA CEO
- 2024-09-12 — Movers & Shakers: Former secretary joins NDIA board
- 2024-06-26 — NDIA plagued by ‘procurement deficiencies’, gifts and benefits scandal
- 2024-01-12 — Movers & Shakers: NDIA promotions, assistant secretaries galore
- 2023-10-26 — Movers & Shakers: Vic mandarin takes up NDIA CIO role
- 2023-04-11 — Co-design work leads to new NDIA safeguards
- 2023-02-09 — Movers & Shakers: New deputy CEO at the NDIA
- 2022-09-28 — A disabled NDIA chair is a great first move in the NDIS reset. Here’s what should happen next
- 2022-09-26 — First person living with a disability becomes NDIA chair
- 2022-07-18 — NDIA chair departs following CEO resignation last month
- 2022-06-19 — The NDIA abandons best practice to save pennies in this blind man’s tribunal case
- 2021-08-11 — Disability provider took $43,000 from NDIS participant, NDIA reveals
- 2020-10-29 — More than 230 senior NDIA staff employed through labour hire, documents show
- 2020-03-03 — NDIA, NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission respond to 2020 provider survey
- 2020-02-10 — Gemma Carey on two outstanding market actions the NDIA could take on NDIS pricing and sustainability
- 2019-10-18 — NDIA staffing boost and new CEO draws cautious optimism from stakeholders, snark from opposition
- 2019-10-17 — Martin Hoffman appointed to lead NDIA, government to hire 800 new public servants
- 2019-10-09 — NDIA goes 160 days without a leader
- 2019-04-30 — National Disability Insurance Agency CEO quits to lead privately owned service provider
- 2019-03-18 — National Disability Insurance Agency would swap labour hire for permanent staff under Labor
- 2018-05-21 — What NDIA’s complaints tell us about outsourcing administration
- 2018-04-27 — ATO opens Gosford office with NDIA, union fears thin end of the ‘hot desking’ wedge
- 2017-01-12 — New year, new National Disability Insurance Agency board
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-08-24 — Monday Briefing: NDIS
- 2026-08-17 — Minister bats away proposal for disability inspector-general
- 2026-08-11 — Push for independent disability system inspector-general
- 2026-07-09 — Movers & Shakers: ARENA’s appointees and DFAT’s despatches
- 2026-07-07 — Robodebt taskforce leaders take acting NACC appointments
- 2026-07-02 — Movers & Shakers: Queensland and WA’s big week
- 2026-06-24 — Ian Watt nominated to lead KPMG review
- 2026-06-17 — Disabled people working inside government, I see you
- 2026-06-11 — APS uncertain about key elements of NDIS cuts
- 2026-06-08 — Market failure? The limits of digital marketplaces in providing care
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Advertising and campaigns | 9 | $1,427,350 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| E-Bisglobal Pty Ltd | — | $375,035 | 2021-22 |
| Hall and Partners Pty Ltd | — | $325,600 | 2021-22 |
| Iconinc Pty Ltd | — | $262,454 | 2021-22 |
| Universal McCann | — | $231,052 | 2021-22 |
| National Mailing and Marketing Pty Ltd | — | $110,318 | 2021-22 |
| Brio Group Pty Ltd | — | $49,854 | 2021-22 |
| Mailchimp | — | $36,835 | 2021-22 |
| Hootsuite Inc | — | $20,135 | 2021-22 |
| Directsms Pty Ltd | — | $16,067 | 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.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 24.3% | at this date |
| % Female | 72.4% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 3.0% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 82.2% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 3.4% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 11.5% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 68.5% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 62.9% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 10.5% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 5.6% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 11,052 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 43.7 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 3.6 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 4.5% | 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 | 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 | 1,948 | 2,622 | 3,491 | 4,394 | 4,392 | 5,066 | 5,649 | 7,842 | 10,599 | ||||
| SES | 25 | 49 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 25 | 27 | 37 | 46 | 45 | |||
| Budget ($000) | 52,685,639 | 56,470,908 | |||||||||||
| KMP disclosed | 64 | 42 | 26 | ||||||||||
| Top total pay | $540,777 | $808,689 | $849,660 |
An empty cell means no publishable row for that year — unknown, not nil. Never read a blank as a fall to zero. 13 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.
