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Table 42: Ongoing employees: agency retention, 31 December 2020 to 31 December 2021 *

Agency Ongoing employees
at 31 December 2020		 Ongoing employees
retained at 31 December 2021		 % retained % not retained
AUSTRAC 371 324 87.3 12.7
Aboriginal Hostels Ltd. 104 89 85.6 14.4
Administrative Appeals Tribunal 505 454 89.9 10.1
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission 505 436 86.3 13.7
Agriculture, Water and the Environment 6140 5489 89.4 10.6
Asbestos Safety and Eradication Agency 9 8 88.9 11.1
Attorney-General's 1724 1419 82.3 17.7
Australian Building and Construction Commission 140 114 81.4 18.6
Australian Bureau of Statistics 2270 2067 91.1 8.9
Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research 38 29 76.3 23.7
Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity 50 40 80.0 20.0
Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care 74 66 89.2 10.8
Australian Communications & Media Authority 435 370 85.1 14.9
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission 1184 1051 88.8 11.2
Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission 737 598 81.1 18.9
Australian Digital Health Agency 63 47 74.6 25.4
Australian Electoral Commission 670 500 74.6 25.4
Australian Financial Security Authority 429 343 80.0 20.0
Australian Fisheries Management Authority 134 106 79.1 20.9
Australian Human Rights Commission 93 78 83.9 16.1
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies 124 87 70.2 29.8
Australian Institute of Family Studies 32 23 71.9 28.1
Australian Institute of Health and Welfare 373 320 85.8 14.2
Australian Law Reform Commission 10 9 90.0 10.0
Australian National Audit Office 315 244 77.5 22.5
Australian National Maritime Museum 80 61 76.3 23.8
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority 161 146 90.7 9.3
Australian Public Service Commission 201 121 60.2 39.8
Australian Radiation Protection and Nuclear Safety Agency 134 125 93.3 6.7
Australian Research Council 139 111 79.9 20.1
Australian Skills Quality Authority 187 136 72.7 27.3
Australian Taxation Office 17230 16222 94.1 5.9
Australian Trade and Investment Commission 543 471 86.7 13.3
Australian Transport Safety Bureau 91 83 91.2 8.8
Australian War Memorial 270 227 84.1 15.9
Bureau of Meteorology 1378 1252 90.9 9.1
Cancer Australia 59 50 84.7 15.3
Clean Energy Regulator 317 239 75.4 24.6
Climate Change Authority 9 3 33.3 66.7
Comcare 556 440 79.1 20.9
Commonwealth Ombudsman 206 146 70.9 29.1
Defence 16943 14752 87.1 12.9
Defence Housing Australia 487 379 77.8 22.2
Digital Transformation Agency 273 149 54.6 45.4
Education, Skills and Employment 3513 2960 84.3 15.7
Fair Work Commission 251 221 88.0 12.0
Federal Court Statutory Agency 775 680 87.7 12.3
Finance 1376 1090 79.2 20.8
Food Standards Australia New Zealand 93 79 84.9 15.1
Foreign Affairs and Trade 3728 3423 91.8 8.2
Future Fund Management Agency 197 173 87.8 12.2
GBRMPA 202 176 87.1 12.9
Health 4187 3696 88.3 11.7
Home Affairs 13405 11878 88.6 11.4
Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority 48 35 72.9 27.1
Industry, Science, Energy and Resources 4648 3947 84.9 15.1
Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications 1493 1180 79.0 21.0
Murray Darling Basin Authority 263 225 85.6 14.4
NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission 238 195 81.9 18.1
National Archives of Australia 322 248 77.0 23.0
National Blood Authority 60 38 63.3 36.7
National Capital Authority 54 44 81.5 18.5
National Disability Insurance Agency 3156 2800 88.7 11.3
National Faster Rail Agency 10 6 60.0 40.0
National Film and Sound Archive 138 120 87.0 13.0
National Health Funding Body 15 8 53.3 46.7
National Health and Medical Research Council 187 158 84.5 15.5
National Indigenous Australians Agency 1173 939 80.1 19.9
National Library of Australia 351 297 84.6 15.4
National Mental Health Commission 26 19 73.1 26.9
National Museum of Australia 195 159 81.5 18.5
National Offshore Petroleum Safety And Environmental Management Authority 94 89 94.7 5.3
National Portrait Gallery 47 39 83.0 17.0
National Recovery and Resilience Agency 34 23 67.6 32.4
North Queensland Water Infrastructure Authority 2 1 50.0 50.0
Office of National Intelligence 260 217 83.5 16.5
Office of Parliamentary Counsel 107 93 86.9 13.1
Office of the Australian Information Commissioner 102 74 72.5 27.5
Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions 425 348 81.9 18.1
Office of the Fair Work Ombudsman 840 750 89.3 10.7
Office of the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security 32 26 81.3 18.8
Office of the Inspector-General of Taxation 27 27 100.0 0.0
Old Parliament House 52 45 86.5 13.5
Organ and Tissue Authority 16 12 75.0 25.0
Prime Minister and Cabinet 1024 707 69.0 31.0
Productivity Commission 146 118 80.8 19.2
Professional Services Review 23 20 87.0 13.0
Safe Work Australia 91 59 64.8 35.2
Screen Australia 6 6 100.0 0.0
Services Australia 26803 24611 91.8 8.2
Social Services 2192 1691 77.1 22.9
Sport Integrity Australia 77 67 87.0 13.0
TEQSA 83 59 71.1 28.9
Torres Strait Regional Authority 57 50 87.7 12.3
Treasury 1344 1098 81.7 18.3
Veterans' Affairs 1617 1433 88.6 11.4
Workplace Gender Equality Agency 25 21 84.0 16.0

Source: APSED

* Employees affected by machinery-of-government (MoG) changes during 2021 are not included in this table.

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