Office of National Intelligence
Office of National Intelligence
Prime Minister and Cabinet portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 55
- Contract value (all years): 5,876,975 AUD
- Contract value (2021): 859,501 AUD
- APS headcount: 441
- Budget 2026-27: 162,782 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
- Directory roles: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (9)
- 2024-01-10 — Office of National Intelligence casts wide net for tech leaders
- 2023-12-05 — Stop building legacy: ONI chief Shearer fires strategic warning
- 2023-06-29 — Movers & Shakers: SES elevations at Defence, DFAT, ONI and DISR
- 2023-06-18 — Office of National Intelligence chief Shearer pushes for vetting and recruitment overhaul
- 2023-06-01 — Movers & Shakers: Mystery promotion at Office of National Intelligence
- 2023-04-20 — Movers & Shakers: ONI’s secret SES recruits
- 2022-09-15 — Movers & Shakers: Seven mystery appointments at Office of National Intelligence
- 2021-02-15 — PM&C hires ex ONI boss Nick Warner as consultant
- 2017-07-27 — Fake ‘ONI’ Twitter account is fake, PM’s department confirms
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
- 2026-05-07 — Seven years on, still no new electronic surveillance law
- 2026-05-07 — Movers & Shakers: Four anonymous mandarins
- 2026-04-23 — Movers & Shakers: New CEO for gender equality agency
- 2026-03-19 — Taskforces galore as Australia’s transport sector wobbles
- 2026-02-22 — NSW Crime Commission chief becomes Canberra’s intelligence toecutter
- 2025-12-16 — Geopolitics prompts RBA to reprioritise financial system resilience… and cash
- 2025-12-14 — Intelligence committee runs rule over ‘secret six’
- 2025-12-04 — Movers & Shakers: PM’s office plugs AUKUS leadership gap
- 2025-11-23 — Finding the ‘I’ in intelligence: The challenge of recruiting Australia’s next generation of spooks
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Office of National Assessments ⚠️ | APSC APS Employment Data | 2010-11 to 2017-18 | 1,342 |
| Office of National Assessments ⚠️ | APSC agency metrics | 2010-11 to 2017-18 | 55 |
| Office of National Intelligence | APSC APS Employment Data | 2018-19 to 2025-26 | 1,348 |
| Office of National Intelligence | APSC agency metrics | 2018-19 to 2025-26 | 191 |
| Office of National Intelligence | AusTender (names as at today, not as at the contract) | 2019-20 to 2020-21 | 55 |
| Office of National Intelligence | Portfolio Budget Statements | 2024-25 to 2029-30 | 70 |
⚠️ This agency has not always carried its current name. Figures in the earlier years were reported as Office of National Assessments (2010-11 to 2017-18). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is.
Workforce profile — as at 2025-12-31
| Measure | Value | Basis |
|---|---|---|
| % CALD | 11.5% | at this date |
| % Female | 56.5% | at this date |
| % Indigenous | 1.1% | at this date |
| % at the APS classification level | 29.5% | at this date |
| % non-ongoing | 5.4% | at this date |
| % part-time (ongoing employees) | 11.3% | at this date |
| % who have worked in only one agency (ongoing employees) | 21.8% | at this date |
| % with a bachelors degree or higher | 89.8% | at this date |
| % with a disability | 5.0% | at this date |
| Exit rate - from agency (ongoing employees) | 16.7% | Year ending December 2025 |
| Headcount | 441 | at this date |
| Mean Age (years) | 41.6 years | at this date |
| Median LOS in APS (years) | 8.8 years | at this date |
| Separation rate - from APS (ongoing employees) | 10.8% | 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 | 2010-11 | 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 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 | 148 | 138 | 141 | 138 | 137 | 159 | 192 | 240 | 261 | 281 | 287 | 333 | 403 | 432 | 441 | |
| SES | 12 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 20 | 20 | 21 | 20 | ||||||||
| Contracts | 34 | 21 | ||||||||||||||
| Contract value | $2,834,762 | $3,042,212 | ||||||||||||||
| Budget ($000) | 158,375 | 162,782 |
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 Office of National Assessments (2010-11 to 2017-18). They are shown here because the series is continuous, not because the agency is. 1 value(s) for this agency are withheld as implausible against its own median — see Outputs/agency_year_series.csv for them and why.
