Parliamentary Budget Office
Parliamentary Budget Office
Parliamentary Departments (not a portfolio) portfolio
Verified figures
- Contracts (all years): 71
- Contract value (all years): 3,649,367 AUD
- Contract value (2026): 93,502 AUD
- APS headcount: no publishable rows matched — this means the figure is unknown, not nil
- Budget 2026-27: 10,007 thousand AUD
- Highest total remuneration: 479,600 AUD
- Directory roles: 8
Figures use publishable matches only (alias, abn, exact, case, punct, trading_name, wide_exact). Retrieved 2026-09-01.
Coverage — named in the headline (7)
- 2026-08-09 — PBO shuts down Hume’s questions on cybersecurity hygiene
- 2026-07-12 — Prudent budget management can create transparency challenges, PBO chief says
- 2025-06-25 — Redundancies required for Coalition public service cuts, says PBO
- 2025-05-01 — Big gap between Treasury and PBO over Coalition’s small business expenses plan
- 2024-10-31 — Movers & Shakers: Leaders appointed to the AEC and PBO
- 2024-05-06 — NSW government rejects PBO budget transparency recommendation
- 2017-06-23 — Victorian Parliamentary Budget Office to give independent costing advice
Passing mentions (10 shown)
Mentioned in the text but not the headline, so often not about this agency.
- 2026-07-19 — Education ministers to ‘explore’ national childcare commission
- 2026-07-16 — Bargaining, budgets, and fat cats: A perfect storm is on the way
- 2026-07-15 — Government’s road to surplus could run through APS ranks
- 2026-06-04 — South Australia cuts 1,000 public service positions
- 2026-03-05 — Movers & Shakers: Energy regulator to oversee Murray-Darling Basin review
- 2025-11-23 — Measuring defence spending as a percentage of GDP is meaningless
- 2025-11-06 — Diabolical pressure cooker imperils yet another DPS secretary
- 2025-10-13 — Defined benefits face scrutiny in super reform plan
- 2025-08-28 — Movers & Shakers: OAIC names ████ as FOI commissioner
- 2025-05-25 — Victoria’s bad budget shows need for a Reserve Bank of Infrastructure
Payments to organisations — as reported by the agency
| Category | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Non-consultancy contracts | 10 | $815 |
Largest recipients across all reported years
| Organisation | ABN | Reported total | Years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxide Interactive Pty Ltd | 20138035195 | $363 | 2022-23, 2024-25 |
| Bellchambers Barrett (+1 other name(s) on this ABN) | 14942509138 | $234 | 2022-23, 2024-25 |
| Capability Wise Pty Ltd | 57612303241 | $96 | 2022-23 |
| HWL Ebsworth Lawyers | 37246549189 | $34 | 2022-23 |
| Gillian Beaumont Recruitment Pty Ltd | 58107780683 | $33 | 2022-23 |
| Wendy Southern | 64106235775 | $22 | 2024-25 |
| Business Wide Pty Ltd | 49775240532 | $17 | 2024-25 |
| Warren Day | 94492063718 | $16 | 2024-25 |
From the expenditure disclosures in each annual report — a separate source from the AusTender contract figures above, and not directly comparable with them.
Year by year
| Measure | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contracts | 8 | 15 | 7 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 5 | 2 | |
| Contract value | $253,362 | $779,139 | $307,971 | $950,522 | $513,193 | $300,818 | $514,859 | $29,502 | |
| Budget ($000) | 10,344 | 10,007 | |||||||
| KMP disclosed | 10 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 4 | |||
| Top total pay | $437,463 | $337,815 | $339,904 | $472,475 | $479,600 | $386,884 |
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.
