Article Topics

1	CHARITIES	6
2	PRIVACY	6
3	INTERESTS	3
4	CENSUS	3
5	WELFARE	3
6	SECURITY	3
7	DONATIONS	3
8	WHISTLEBLOWING	2
9	THINKTANKS	2
10	BUDGET	2
11	OPEN GOV	2
12	RACISM	1
13	HOUSING	1
14	IMMIGRATION	1
15	LOBBYISTS	1
16	INFLUENCE	1

Electorate

Members of Parliament

Official portrait of Matt Thistlethwaite

Filter Data

The party links below show data for all electorates held by that party plus sources of revenue and political messaging associated with that party. The non-partisan options show results across all parties by the type of organisation reporting: party, associated entity, campaigner or by portfolio or electorate. These results are listed by income or spend desc.

Major Parties

	Liberal Party
	Australian Labor Party
	Australian Greens
	Liberal National Party of Queensland
	National Party of Australia

Non Partisan

	Grants by Portfolio
	Grants by Electorate
	Charities
	All Parties
	Associated Entities
	Third Parties
	Campaigners
	Megacorps
	Franking Credits

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Grants

Foreign Affairs and Trade

Ministers responsible for the Foreign Affairs and Trade Portfolio awarded 14.87% of grants to FAIRLY SAFE electorates

Grants

PAGE

Between Jan 2018 & April 2021 orgs in the MARGINAL electorate of PAGE held by NATS MP Kevin Hogan received over $365.38 million in grants

Charities

Clark

Based on ACNC data, in 2019 charities in the electorate of Clark held by IND MP Andrew Wilkie declared over $1,860.65 million in revenue.

Franking Credits

SCULLIN

In the 17-18 tax year, residents in the electorate of SCULLIN held by ALP MP Andrew Giles received franking credits worth $25.78 million.

Political Parties

GREENS PARTY

Between 2013 and 2021 the GREENS PARTY declared $118,119,809 to the AEC.

Associated Entities

FEDERATION OF HUNTING CLUBS

Between 2013 and 2020 the Shooters, Fishers, Farmers-affiliated associated entity FEDERATION OF HUNTING CLUBS declared $356,568 to the AEC.

Third Parties

USU

Between 2013 and 2019 the ALP-affiliated 3rd party USU spent $23,180 on political messaging.

Campaigners

CFMEU

Between 2018 and 2020 the ALP-affiliated campaigner CFMEU spent $1,196,117 on political messaging.

Megacorps

IINET

Between 2013 and 2021 IINET declared $2,292,165,721 revenue, paid $53,641,722 in tax & paid $8,650 to political orgs.

Payments from tax transparency list corps to political orgs includes donations & other receipts (subscriptions, rent, payment for services etc) to political parties, their associated entities, third parties, campaigners and political candidates.

This site holds multiple data projects which allow the public to analyse government data on spending & influence across all sectors. Use the ☰ button to navigate between projects, or use the randomly generated flip cards below to get an overview & share tid-bits with your Twitter network.

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Media and Journalism

The Guardian Innovation Australia The New Daily Eureka Street AusVotes 2019 Independent Australia Electronic Frontiers Australia Crikey Open Australia Foundation AOGPN blog Open Knowledge Foundation EGovAu Blog The Conversation IdeasHoist ABC PM Radio Power to Persuade Croakey International Budget Partnership Sydney Morning Herald Online Opinion New Matilda No Fibs Sunday Life Magazine

Bill McLennan

FORMER HEAD, AUSTRALIAN BUREAU OF STATISTICS

I was impressed by the #Censusfail submission to this (Inquiry) Committee. It very clearly showed some good analysis that would have helped the ABS to run a better Census if it had done such research before developing the Census proposal. It also saved me from explaining the current thrust in government with the Government Data Linkage Project, and its likely links to the Census. Bill McLennan (Former Head of the ABS, Former Chairman United Nations Statistical Commission) in his Submission to the 2016 Inquiry.

Garry Brooke

FORMER DIRECTOR, APPROPRIATIONS MANAGEMENT TEAM, DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE

I’ve worked with Rosie Williams on budget data transparency since November 2013. Rosie has developed her project into the best government data transparency initiative I know... continually updated and improved to make underlying data intelligible and to focus on key aspects for analysis. My interest has particularly been on the transparency of federal budget data.

Scott Ludlam
	FORMER SENATOR, THE AUSTRALIAN GREENS
too big to #CensusFail: https://t.co/ezUoItjm8u notes on a debacle and where to from here #auspol — Scott Ludlam (@SenatorLudlam) August 30, 2016	We could hear from digital rights organisations like the Privacy Foundation, Digital Rights Watchand Electronic Frontiers Australia and from specialist researchers like Rosie Williams and Asher Wolf, who have led the debate online.

Sleeping Giants

Is your local member accepting a FREE gift subscription to FOXTEL/Sky News currently there are 101 MPs & Senators.

Go to the LINK: 👇🏾👇🏼https://ausgov.info/interests/index.php?Entity=Foxtel

Tell your MP you want them to STOP accepting gifts from News Corp#Auspol #AdShame #NotMyAustralia via @Info_Aus pic.twitter.com/OAq3cHCxPg — 💧 Sleeping Giants Oz 📣 (@slpng_giants_oz) September 12, 2018

ADVERTISING ACTIVISM

In late 2018, Sleeping Giants Australia, 'a community initiative to make racism, bigotry, misogyny and climate change denial less profitable', used data I provided to them on the parliamentarians who have accepted subscriptions to Foxtel in their campaign against racism. Sky took umbridge at this campaign and Sleeping Giants & similar campaigns have been the focus of media commentary ever since. My Tweet was pictured in a front-page diatribe in The Australian against Denise Shrivell who The Australian claimed is resonsible for the Sleeping Giants Australia account.

I launched the domain AusGov.info at Linux Conference Australia in January 2018, however this work is the result of years devoted to programming and transparency work beginning in 2012 and progressively expanded and improved upon over the intervening years.

Credits

The pecuniary interests register data was originally supplied by icacpls however I have updated it manually (or not as time permits) for the past couple of years.

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Disclaimer

The figures in this site are either raw data at line-item level or totals/percentages - which are the result of algorithms or joins (programmatic matches between two lists) - written by myself in MySQL, which in turn are based on open data provided by Australian government agencies.

This data ranges in quality between datasets, is updated at different intervals and is published to different standards and in different formats.

The data you see in this site is edited by myself (unused fields are removed, names of programs/agencies/entities are spelled consistently within & between datasets). Data cleaning is a significant job. All care has been taken to represent every single figure accurately, however mistakes can be made either by the entity providing data to the government, the agency providing the data back to the public or at my end as I further transform this data for use.

It is important to understand that while opinions and inferences can be made based on the data on this site, that the data is not in and of itself an inference or an opinion. Inferences and opinions using data in this site remain the legal responsibility of the author of those opinions.

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AusGovInfo 14th Jun 2021

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Government Moves Charity Transparency In The Wrong Direction

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Shining A Spotlight On The Finances Of Religious Charities

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Shining A Spotlight On The Finances Of Religious Charities

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