All Grants to Ballarat by Month


Ad Hoc grants to Ballarat

Ad Hoc grants to Other Electorates

Demographics

2019 2022 Change Direction
61 63
Catherine King
Catherine King
2 Ballarat

Ballarat is a SAFE, Provincial VIC seat with a privilege score at the 45 %ile, held by Catherine King for ALP with 61% of the Vote

Age distribution within Ballarat

Under 1818-3435-4950-6465-7980+
23% 22% 19% 19% 13% 4%

Socio-Economic Data for Ballarat

45
62
35
30
41
32
42
39
27
14
Decile 1 Decile 2 Decile 3 Decile 4 Decile 5 Decile 6 Decile 7 Decile 8 Decile 9 Decile 10

This data represents the ABS data from the 2016 census for the Index of Economic Resources. 'The IER summarises variables relating to the financial aspects of relative socio-economic advantage and disadvantage. These include indicators of high and low income, as well as variables that correlate with high or low wealth. Areas with higher scores have relatively greater access to economic resources than areas with lower scores.' SEIFA Technical Paper

Census data is used to distributed neighbourhoods into bands (deciles) ranging from the poorest in Decile 1 to the wealthiest in Decile 10. The higher the number and column, the more neighbourhoods are in that decile.

The shape of the columns shows which way the electorate skews in wealth.

ADDINGTON
ALFREDTON
ALLENDALE
BACCHUS MARSH
BAKERY HILL
BALLAN
BALLARAT
BARRYS REEF
BASALT
BONSHAW
BULLARTO
BUNGAL
BUNINYONG
CLUNES
CRESWICK
DALES CREEK
GORDON
LAKE GARDENS
WINTER VALLEY

About

Grants can be filtered within each electorate by confidentiality contract (larger screens only) or selection process (all devices). Click on the icons to filter grants. Mouse over icons or links for details.

Members get access to all grants data and all analysis. Guests get access to grant data except the most recent three months. Grant data will be updated regularly while funding continues for this work.

Full details for each grant can be found by clicking on the publication date which links to the government version.

Commonwealth Grants are awarded according to one of the following processes:

Grants can be advertised according to one of the above selection processes but this process can be over-ridden by Ministers or Cabinet. Since Jan 2018 over 130,000 individual grants across over 1,900 programs have been made. A minority of grants are awarded in an Ad Hoc manner.

The Australia Institute, which analysed grants across a small number of programs (2021), found that Ministerial Discretion had been biased toward marginal Liberal seats and has this to say about Ad Hoc grants.

The Commonwealth Grants Rules and Guidelines (CGRG) permits the allocation of grants in certain exigencies: A one-off or ad hoc grant generally does not involve planned selection processes, but is instead designed to meet a specific need, often due to urgency or other circumstances. These grants are generally not available to a range of potential grantees or on an ongoing basis.

In the cases considered, promises made in an election campaign have been construed as circumstances that warrant an invitation only grants process rather than a planned, competitive selection process. This seems prima facie at odds with the CGRG, which require grant administrators to consider seven key principles:

The Australian Govt Soliciter summarises requirements for Ministers of the Commonwealth in awarding grants: