Many school leaders will retire in the next few years and their potential successors report little attraction to the leadership role. The author considers whether Australia is really facing a looming leadership shortage. The Commonwealth Department of Education commissioned ACER to conduct the Staff in Australia's Schools (SiAS) survey in 2006 and 2007 to help fill data gaps around educator workforce issues, and to gather information to assist in future leadership planning. The article discusses the survey results, with particular reference to estimated numbers of teachers and leaders; age profiles; career intentions; and teachers' intentions to apply for leadership positions. The results show that while the proportion intending to apply for a leadership position is quite small, there will still be many more applicants among teachers than leadership vacancies. The results are not grounds for complacency in terms of efforts to continue to make leadership posts attractive and to prepare teachers for these responsibilities. Overall the SiAS results reinforce the need for regular, ongoing monitoring of the views of the teacher and school leader workforces, and for the collection of data as at disaggregated a level as possible.