Annual Reports

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations 2025–26 Annual Report includes the department’s audited financial statements and performance statements for the reporting period ending 30 June 2026. The report provides information about the department’s achievements, corporate arrangements and performance.

Previous DEWR Annual Reports 

• Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Annual Report 2024–25 
• Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Annual Report 2023–24
• Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Annual Report 2022–23

Historical Annual Reports

• Department of Education, Skills and Employment Annual Reports
  The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations was established as a new Commonwealth entity on 1 July 2022, and has responsibility for:
  • employment and national workforce, and skills and training functions transferred from the former Department of Education, Skills and Employment (now the Department of Education)
  • workplace relations functions from the Attorney-General’s Department
  • domestic operations and policy for the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
• Department of Education Annual Reports
  Including the former Department of Education and Training, and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR).
• Department of Employment Annual Reports
  Including the Department of Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business, and the Department of Jobs and Small Business.
• Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Annual Reports
  Containing historic information regarding the Pacific Australia Labour Mobility scheme.
• Department of Education, Science and Training Annual Reports
  All previous year's annual reports from 1995 to 2006 are available on the online Web archive, TROVE.