Report on Government Services

The Report on Government Services (RoGS) provides information on the equity, effectiveness and efficiency of government services in Australia.

The 2026 RoGS will be progressively released over the following dates:

Thursday 29 January 2026 at 10.30 pm AEDT

Part A Approach to performance reporting
Part F Community services (includes aged care, disability, child protection and youth justice)
Part G Housing and homelessness

Tuesday 3 February 2026 at 10.30 pm AEDT

Part C Justice (includes police, courts and corrective services)
Part D Emergency management (includes fire and other emergency events)

Thursday 5 February 2026 at 10.30 pm AEDT

Part E Health (includes primary and community health, ambulance services, public hospitals, services for mental health)

Tuesday 10 February 2026 at 10.30 pm AEDT

Part B Child care, education and training (includes early childhood education and care, school education, vocational education and training)

Guide: How to find what you need in RoGS (PDF 288.5 KB)

At A Glance

A Approach to performance reporting

Released 30 January 2025

Part A includes an introduction to the Report on Government Services 2025, Statistical context for the service-specific parts B to G, the Glossary and the Acronyms and abbreviations list...

B Child care, education and training

Released 10 June 2025

Part B includes performance reporting for Early childhood education and care (ECEC), School education and Vocational education and training (VET).

C Justice

Released 4 February 2025

Part C includes performance reporting for Police services, Courts and Corrective services.

D Emergency management

Released 4 February 2025

Part D includes performance reporting for Emergency services for fire and other events.

E Health

Released 6 February 2025

Part E includes performance reporting for Primary and community health, Ambulance services, Public hospitals and Services for mental health.

F Community services

Released 31 January 2025

Part F includes performance reporting for Aged care services, Services for people with disability, Child protection services and Youth justice services.

G Housing and homelessness

Released 10 June 2025

Part G includes performance reporting for Housing and Homelessness services.

Media Release

Report on Government Services 2025

The Productivity Commission today released the 2025 Report on Government Services (RoGS).

Now in its 30th year, the Report on Government Services provides data directly from all Australian governments on the equity, efficiency and effectiveness of the services they provide, including schools; police, courts and corrective services; health services; aged care and disability services; and housing and homelessness services.

Government expenditure on these services was approximately $374 billion for 2022-23 – around 70% of government recurrent expenditure.

The report is being released in seven parts from Thursday 30 January to Tuesday 11 February 2025. The full release schedule can be found below.

Three decades after its establishment, the report remains relatively unique internationally. ‘In my first year as Chair, many policymakers and stakeholders have expressed to me the unique value of this data,’ said Productivity Commission Chair Danielle Wood.

‘The longevity of this report means that it can provide insights into trends over decades, helping policymakers move beyond the day to day and see the bigger picture.’

This year, new data is available to assess workforce sustainability across sectors including public hospitals and police. This helps indicate whether the workforce in these sectors can meet demand, based on factors such as age profile and attrition.

‘With growing demand for many services, it is more important than ever for policymakers to have information that can help them plan for and invest in key workforces across essential service sectors,’ said Ms Wood.

The report also presents new data on the wellbeing and economic and social engagement of people with disability, older Australians, and their carers. While this survey data suggests rates of carer employment have increased, carers continue to report materially lower levels of wellbeing than the general population.

‘This new survey data helps us better understand harder to measure aspects of the care economy, such as quality of life, which are also an important input into policy making,’ said Ms Wood.

The report continues to expand its focus on the quality and safety of services, with the 2025 edition introducing reporting on serious incidents in the provision of aged care services in the home and new quality indicators relating to resident wellbeing and care in residential aged care settings.

This edition marks the 30th year the report has been published on behalf of all Australian governments and includes a forward from former Industry Commission Chair Bill Scales, responsible for overseeing the first edition of the Report.

Mr Scales writes that ‘the report was created to provide a source of credible and easily compared data, at a time when governments were focussed on providing more relevant, efficient and effective services to the Australian public and publicly reporting on their progress … It is inspiring to see how the report has continued to develop and expand over those 30 years.’

Releases will appear on the Productivity Commission website at www.pc.gov.au/rogs. The report is produced by the Productivity Commission on behalf of all Australian governments. The 2025 report is the 30th edition.

Release schedule

Public release dates at 10.30 pm AEDT

Thursday 30 January 2025 – Part A (Approach to performance reporting), F (Community services) and G (Housing and homelessness)
Tuesday 4 February 2025 – Part C (Justice) and D (Emergency management)
Thursday 6 February 2025 – Part E (Health)
Tuesday 11 February 2025 – Part B (Child care, education and training).

Background information

Prue Holzer, Acting Branch Head, Commonwealth State Reporting and Review – 03 9653 2226

Media requests

02 6240 3330 / media@pc.gov.au

About Report

I am delighted to have been asked to introduce this 30th edition of the Report on Government Services, established during my time as Chair of the Industry Commission.

30 years ago, the report was created to provide a source of credible and easily compared data, at a time when governments were focussed on providing more relevant, efficient and effective services to the Australian public and publicly reporting on their progress.

In the early years of the report, the Commission worked hard to convince some Australian governments that sharing their data would strengthen the insights and decisions of their policy makers. While we were hopeful that governments across Australia would come to recognise the value of the report, we could not have anticipated that it would continue to be a widely used source of data in support of good public policy three decades on.

From its very beginnings, the report aimed to be a source of information both for Australian governments and Australian taxpayers. In this sense, the report was an early forerunner of open government data provision, and the contemporary push for greater transparency by Australian governments.

The coverage of the report each January and February in the media, and the different ways the data is used to highlight the relative performance of different jurisdictions across service delivery areas continues the mission of this report that was established 30 years ago.

It is inspiring to see how the report has continued to develop and expand over those 30 years and how it now incorporates information on the equity of government services alongside their efficiency and effectiveness.

It is also to the credit of all involved in the production of this report to see that it is now entirely online and features interactive visualisations that have made the data more accessible and understandable, how coverage has expanded, and how more timely data is now available through a mid-year update.

Thanks to the 30 years of data the report has collected, researchers and evaluators can better assess how well governments are delivering on their objectives for service users and how this has changed over time.

This year’s report draws from the best of previous editions, reintroducing summaries of national trends and helping readers more easily identify key performance metrics.

The Report on Government Services continues to be a valuable government and community resource and I look forward to seeing the next wave of improvements to national performance reporting on the range of services so important to all Australians.

Bill Scales

This report was produced under the direction of the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision (SCRGSP). The Steering Committee comprises the following current members:

Name	Government	Department/Agency
Danielle Wood Prue Holzer	Chair Secretariat	Productivity Commission Productivity Commission
James McLean Dreyfus Jaclin Craig	Australian Government	Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet The Treasury
Xuan Deng Fletcher Trowse	New South Wales	NSW Treasury The Cabinet office
Laura Perriam Sharon Oxlade	Victoria	Department of Premier and Cabinet Department of Treasury and Finance
Kerry Wilson David Runge	Queensland	Department of the Premier and Cabinet Queensland Treasury
Anthony Sheehan Luke Crotty	Western Australia	Department of the Premier and Cabinet Department of Treasury
Chris McGowan Greg Raymond	South Australia	Department of the Premier and Cabinet Department of Treasury and Finance
Jodi Willcox	Tasmania	Department of Premier and Cabinet
Wilhelmina Blount	Australian Capital Territory	Chief Minister, Treasury and Economic Development Directorate
Nadia Phillips Shaun Pearson	Northern Territory	Department of the Chief Minister Department of Treasury and Finance
Michael Smedes	Specialist Observer	Australian Bureau of Statistics
Louise Gates	Specialist Observer	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

Attribution

This work should be attributed as follows, Source: Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision, Report on Government Services 2025.

If you have adapted, modified or transformed this work in anyway, please use the following, Source: based on Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision data, Report on Government Services 2025.

An appropriate reference for this publication is:

SCRGSP (Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision) 2025, Report on Government Services 2025, Productivity Commission, Canberra, https://www.pc.gov.au/ongoing/report-on-government-services/2025 (accessed [include the date you accessed the online material]).

Publications enquiries:

The Productivity Commission acts as the Secretariat for the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision. This report and previous editions are available from the Productivity Commission website at www.pc.gov.au.

The Steering Committee welcomes enquiries and suggestions on the information contained in this report. Contact the Secretariat by phone: (03) 9653 2100 or CSRR enquiries form.