Royal Commissioner John Dyson Heydon AC QC delivered his Final Report to the Governor General on 28 December 2015. The Final Report has been tabled in Parliament.

The report concludes the Commission's national inquiry into trade union governance and corruption which began on 13 March 2014.

The Commission considered 75 distinct case studies under the Terms of Reference and received evidence from 525 witnesses in public and private hearings on 189 individual hearing days in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Canberra. 

Many other matters were considered by the Commission's investigators which did not culminate in public hearings. In conducting its investigations, the Commission issued more than 2000 'Notices to Produce Documents' and generated a database of over 852,000 individual documents comprising millions of pages.

The Report is comprised of 6 volumes, one of which is a confidential volume.

Volume 1 – Introduction and Overview (35)

Volume 2 – CEPU, HSU, MUA, NUW and TWU (21)

Volume 3 – CFMEU (33)

Volume 4 – CFMEU and AWU (21)

Volume 5 – Law Reform and Policy (19)

Volume 6 – Confidential Volume – not publicly available

The Office of the Royal Commission was initially funded as a nine month operation but was extended in October 2014 to run for 21 months, with no change in its capital and operating funding of approximately $57m.