Annual Reports

Annual reports are one of the formal accountability mechanisms between Government, Departments and the Parliament.

They describe achievement against the performance targets established in the portfolio budget statements and any additional estimates statements.

Additional publications referred to within the Defence Annual Report include:

The Defence Annual Report since 2018 can be also be found on the Australian Government Transparency Portal.

2020 - 2021

Defence Annual Report 2020 - 2021 (PDF 4.3 MB) Defence Annual Report 2020 - 2021 web tables D.1 - D.9 (XLSX 108.23 KB) Women in the ADF Report 2020-21 (PDF 998.97 KB)

2019 - 2020

Defence Annual Report 2019 - 2020 (PDF 3.45 MB) Defence Annual Report 2019 - 2020 web tables D.1 - D.9 (XLSX 107.89 KB) Women in the ADF Report 2019 - 2020 (PDF 1.5 MB)

2018 - 2019

Defence Annual Report 2018 -2019 (PDF 9.68 MB) Defence Annual Report 2018 - 2019 web tables D.1 - D.9 (XLSX 101.9 KB) Women in the ADF Report 2018 - 2019 (PDF 559.79 KB)

Previous years

Defence Annual Report 2017 - 2018 (PDF 3.29 MB) Defence Annual Report 2016 - 2017 (PDF 3.89 MB) Defence Annual Report 2015 - 2016 (PDF 9.3 MB) Defence Annual Report 2014 - 2015 (PDF 10.37 MB) Defence Annual Report 2013 - 2014 (PDF 6.61 MB) Defence Annual Report 2012 - 2013 (PDF 21 MB) Defence Annual Report 2011 - 2012 (PDF 27.5 MB)

Defence Annual Reports prior to 2011 can be access via the Trove Government web archive.