Appendix 2: Machinery of Government Changes
Table A1: Movements between APS agencies, 2024-25
| Date | Agency employees moved from | Agency employees moved to | Number of ongoing staff |
Number of non-ongoing staff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/09/2024 | Home Affairs | Attorney-General's | 7 | |
| 26/09/2024 | Finance | Parliamentary Workplace Support Service | 21 | 5 |
| 26/09/2024 | Australian Public Service Commission | Parliamentary Workplace Support Service | 25 | 6 |
| 30/09/2024 | National Mental Health Commission | Health and Aged Care | 32 | |
| 14/10/2024 | Administrative Appeals Tribunal | Administrative Review Tribunal | 639 | 158 |
| 21/11/2024 | Social Services | Domestic, Family and Sexual Violence Commission | 9 | 5 |
Table A2: Machinery of Government engagements from non-APS agencies, 2024-25
| Date | Agency | Ongoing staff | Non-ongoing staff |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1/07/2024 | Industry, Science and Resources | 1 | 7 |
Table A3: Total Machinery of Government movements into and out of the APS, 2005-06 to 2024-25
| Year | Additions | Reductions | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ongoing | Non-ongoing | Total | Ongoing | Non-ongoing | Total | |
| 2005-06 | 5,081 | 259 | 5,340 | |||
| 2006-07 | 492 | 56 | 548 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 2007-08 | 151 | 399 | 550 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2008-09 | 359 | 65 | 424 | 464 | 464 | |
| 2009-10 | 21 | 21 | ||||
| 2010-11 | 214 | 41 | 255 | |||
| 2011-12 | 212 | 32 | 244 | 4 | 4 | |
| 2012-13 | 12 | 12 | ||||
| 2013-14 | 222 | 2 | 224 | 2 | 2 | |
| 2014-15 | 40 | 40 | ||||
| 2015-16 | 727 | 50 | 777 | 299 | 87 | 386 |
| 2016-17 | 109 | 109 | ||||
| 2017-18 | 53 | 53 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2018-19 | 220 | 220 | 1,807 | 24 | 1,831 | |
| 2019-20 | 13 | 13 | 1,685 | 288 | 1,973 | |
| 2020-21 | 183 | 37 | 220 | |||
| 2021-22 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 2022-23 | ||||||
| 2023-24 | ||||||
| 2024-25 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 187 | 7 | 194 |
Table A4: Changes to agency names and portfolios, 2024-25
| Date | Change | Entity Name | Portfolio | Change Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/10/2024 | Remove | National Mental Health Commission | Health and Aged Care | National Mental Health Commission abolished as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity on 30 September 2024 by an amendment to Schedule 1 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014 |
| 21/10/2024 | Remove | Administrative Appeals Tribunal | Attorney-General's | Administrative Appeals Tribunal abolished as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity by the Administrative Review Tribunal (Consequential and Transitional Provisions No 1) Act 2024 on 14 October 2024 |
| 21/10/2024 | Add | Administrative Review Tribunal | Attorney-General's | Administrative Review Tribunal established as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity by the Administrative Review Tribunal Act 2024 on 14 October 2024 |
| 3/02/2025 | Add | National Commission for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People | Social Services | A new non-corporate Commonwealth entity established by amendment to Schedule 1 of the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Rule 2014 on 13 January 2025 |
| 14/05/2025 | Amend | Department of Health and Aged Care | Health, Disability and Ageing | The Department of Health and Aged Care has been renamed the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing |
| 14/05/2025 | Amend | NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission | Health, Disability and Ageing | Entity moved from Social Services portfolio to Health, Disability and Ageing portfolio |
| 14/05/2025 | Amend | National Disability Insurance Agency | Health, Disability and Ageing | Entity moved from Social Services portfolio to Health, Disability and Ageing portfolio |
| 14/05/2025 | Amend | Australian Crime Commission (Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission) | Home Affairs | Entity moved from the Attorney General's portfolio to Home Affairs portfolio |
| 14/05/2025 | Amend | Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) | Home Affairs | Entity moved from the Attorney General's portfolio to Home Affairs portfolio |
| 14/05/2025 | Amend | Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts | Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts | The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts has been renamed the Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts |
| 14/05/2025 | Amend | Sport Integrity Australia | Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts | Entity moved from the Health and Aged Care portfolio to the Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications, Sport and the Arts portfolio |
| 14/05/2025 | Amend | Australian Financial Security Authority | Treasury | Entity moved from the Attorney General's portfolio to the Treasury portfolio |