Bar and line graph demonstrates mumps notification rate per 100,000 from 1999 to 2012 and the notification/hospitalisation ratio in Australia from 1999 to 2011. • Trend in notification rates peak in 2007 with subsequent decrease from 2008 to 2010 but increases in 2011 and 2012. • Over the 2008 to 2011 period there are twice as many notifications of mumps compared to hospitalisations. • The notification to hospitalisation ratio decreases from a peak of 5.7 in 2007 to 3.2 in 2008 and reaches a trough of 1.1 in 2010.