Prosecution Statistics for 2024–2025
During 2024–25 financial year, we received 2556 new referrals from 49 referring agencies, this includes 40 Commonwealth investigative agencies and nine state and territory agencies.
The following tables set out details of prosecutions we conducted in 2024–2025.
| Description | No. |
| Defendants convicted of offences prosecuted summarily | 802 |
| Defendants convicted of offences prosecuted on indictment | 825 |
| Defendants committed for trial or sentence | 866 |
| Description | Resolved via Plea | Total Convictions | Percentage of matters resolved via guilty plea |
| Defendants convicted of offences prosecuted summarily | 756 | 802 | 94% |
| Defendants convicted of offences prosecuted on indictment | 791 | 825 | 96% |
| Overall defendants convicted | 1547 | 1627 | 95% |
| Description | No. |
| Defendants convicted after a plea of guilty | 756 |
| Defendants convicted after a plea of not guilty | 20 |
| Defendants convicted ex parte | 26 |
| Total defendants convicted | 756 |
| Defendants acquitted after a plea of not guilty | 3 |
| Total | 805 |
| Description | No. |
| Defendants committed after a plea of guilty | 506 |
| Defendants committed after a plea of not guilty | 359 |
| Total defendants committed | 865 |
| Defendants discharged after a plea of not guilty | 1 |
| Total | 866 |
| Description | No. |
| Defendants convicted after a plea of guilty | 791 |
| Defendants convicted after a plea of not guilty | 34 |
| Total defendants convicted | 825 |
| Defendants acquitted after a plea of not guilty | 18 |
| Total | 843 |
| Appeal type | Outcome | Summary | Indictable |
|
Appeals against sentence
|
Upheld | N/A | 5 |
| Dismissed | N/A | 2 | |
| Total | N/A | 7 |
The following tables provide statistics covering relevant legislation and referring agencies in relation to matters dealt with in 2024-25
| Legislation | Summary (charges) | Indictable (charges) |
| Airports (Control of On-Airport Activities) Regulations 1997 (Cth) |
3 |
0 |
| Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorism Financing Act 2006 (Cth) |
11 |
64 |
| Australian Border Force Act 2015 (Cth) |
0 |
1 |
| Australian Citizenship Act 2007 (Cth) |
0 |
3 |
| Australian Crime Commission Act 2002 (Cth) |
0 |
4 |
| Australian Federal Police Act 1979 (Cth) |
15 |
0 |
| Australian Passports Act 2005 (Cth) |
13 |
2 |
| Australian Securities and Investments Commission Act 2001 (Cth) |
0 |
20 |
| Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 (Cth) |
4 |
1 |
| Aviation Transport Security Regulations 2005 (Cth) |
15 |
0 |
| Bankruptcy Act 1966 (Cth) |
20 |
22 |
| Biosecurity Act 2015 (Cth) |
4 |
9 |
| Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989 (Cth) |
3 |
0 |
| Civil Aviation Act 1988 (Cth) |
20 |
4 |
| Civil Aviation Regulations 1988 (Cth) |
5 |
0 |
| Civil Aviation Safety Regulations 1998 (Cth) |
35 |
0 |
| Common law offence |
0 |
3 |
| Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) |
2 |
0 |
| Corporations (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander) Act 2006 (Cth) |
148 |
0 |
| Corporations Act 2001 (Cth) |
12 |
57 |
| Crimes (Aviation) Act 1991 (Cth) |
30 |
5 |
| Crimes (Currency) Act 1981 (Cth) |
5 |
14 |
| Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act 1978 (Cth) |
5 |
0 |
| Crimes Act 1914 (Cth) |
59 |
66 |
| Criminal Code (Cth) |
2226 |
4043 |
| Customs Act 1901 (CI) (Cth) |
2 |
0 |
| Customs Act 1901 (Cth) |
62 |
51 |
| Defence Trade Controls Act 2012 (Cth) |
0 |
2 |
| Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) |
12 |
27 |
| Export Control Act 1982 (Cth) |
2 |
99 |
| Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) |
0 |
4 |
| Financial Transaction Reports Act 1988 (Cth) |
0 |
15 |
| Fisheries Management Act 1991 (Cth) |
287 |
0 |
| Foreign Passports (Law Enforcement and Security) Act 2005 (Cth) |
0 |
1 |
| Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Act 1975 (Cth) |
20 |
0 |
| Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Regulations 2019 (Cth) |
17 |
0 |
| Health Insurance Act 1973 (Cth) |
1 |
1 |
| Marine Safety (Domestic Commercial Vessel) National Law Act 2012 (Cth) |
30 |
0 |
| Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003 (Cth) |
3 |
0 |
| Marriage Act 1961 (Cth) |
1 |
0 |
| Migration Act 1958 (Cth) |
25 |
34 |
| Migration Regulations 1994 (Cth) |
1 |
0 |
| National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009 (Cth) |
4 |
0 |
| National Disability Insurance Scheme Act 2013 (Cth) |
1 |
1 |
| Navigation Act 2012 (Cth) |
3 |
0 |
| Norfolk Island Legislation |
17 |
0 |
| Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Safeguards) Act 1987 (Cth) |
0 |
2 |
| Passports Act 1938 (Cth) |
5 |
0 |
| Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991 (Cth) |
1 |
0 |
| Public Order (Protection of Persons and Property) Act 1971 (Cth) |
14 |
0 |
| Referendum (Machinery Provisions) Act 1984 (Cth) |
18 |
0 |
| Statutory Declarations Act 1959 (Cth) |
1 |
1 |
| Taxation Administration Act 1953 (Cth) |
98 |
32 |
| Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 (Cth) |
7 |
0 |
| Tobacco Plain Packaging Act 2011 (Cth) |
3 |
0 |
| Underwater Cultural Heritage Act 2018 (Cth) |
3 |
0 |
| Work Health and Safety Act 2011 (Cth) |
2 |
0 |
| Non Commonwealth Legislation (Total) * |
294 |
654 |
| Total |
3593 |
5242 |
* While majority of CDPP’s prosecutions are offences against Commonwealth legislation, they are sometimes accompanied by state and territory offences.
| Agency | Summary | Indictable |
| Australian Border Force |
35 |
47 |
| Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity |
1 |
5 |
| Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission |
0 |
2 |
| Australian Electoral Commission |
20 |
0 |
| Australian Federal Police |
205 |
439 |
| Australian Financial Security Authority |
13 |
4 |
| Australian Fisheries Management Authority |
272 |
0 |
| Australian Maritime Safety Authority |
11 |
0 |
| Australian Postal Corporation |
1 |
0 |
| Australian Securities and Investments Commission |
9 |
19 |
| Australian Taxation Office |
17 |
45 |
| Australian Trade Commission |
1 |
0 |
| Civil Aviation Safety Authority |
7 |
0 |
| Clean Energy Regulator |
3 |
0 |
| COMCARE |
5 |
0 |
| Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry |
5 |
0 |
| Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment |
0 |
2 |
| Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |
5 |
3 |
| Department of Defence |
2 |
0 |
| Department of Education |
4 |
0 |
| Department of Education, Skills and Employment |
1 |
1 |
| Department of Employment and Workplace Relations |
3 |
0 |
| Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade |
2 |
1 |
| Department of Health, Disability and Ageing |
1 |
6 |
| Department of Immigration and Border Protection |
1 |
0 |
| Department of Social Services |
0 |
4 |
| Director of Military Prosecution |
1 |
0 |
| Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority |
26 |
0 |
| National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) |
1 |
1 |
| National Disability Insurance Agency |
4 |
9 |
| Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations |
21 |
0 |
| Services Australia |
16 |
3 |
| Services Australia - Centrelink |
146 |
28 |
| Services Australia - Child Support Agency |
2 |
0 |
| Services Australia - Medicare |
23 |
1 |
| Non Commonwealth Agencies |
155 |
531 |
| Total |
1019 |
1151 |
* “Defendants dealt with” includes not only convictions and findings of guilt but also:
- Matters resulting in acquittals.
- Prosecutions that are discontinued in accordance with the Prosecution Policy of the Commonwealth based on evidentiary or public interest considerations.
- Discontinuances as part of a plea negotiation.
- When a matter scheduled for trial resolves into a guilty plea.
- When there is a hung jury.
- When the defendant has absconded and a warrant has been issued.
- Determinations that a defendant is unfit to be tried.
- Matters where a charge is issued but is unable to be served.
It does not include:
- Matters where the CDPP has provided pre-brief advice to an investigative agency.
- Brief assessments that do not proceed to prosecution, whether on evidentiary or public interest grounds.
- Breach proceedings.
- Matters determined on appeal.