There are two major datasets that this project is making use of, the political donations data from the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) and the Tax Transpareny dataset published by the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).

The Tax Transparency dataset has been integrated with political donations data to show which 'top-earning' corporations are also political donations and show the amount each corporation has paid to political parties in recent years.

It is important to note that only donations that fall above the disclosure threshold are made by the AEC in machine-readable format regardless of whether political parties provide records of all donations received to the AEC or not.

The disclosure threshold was $13,800 in the 2018-19 financial year and is pegged to the CPI. I have charted the breakdown by Party of the gap between the total receipts of each party and those that have been reported and published by the AEC.

With the exception of payments excluded from collection or publication by the AEC, this donations project includes all payments received by political parties regardless of whether they are designated as a political donation, 'other receipt' or government funding (with appropriate labelling).

This is because I think a lot of people want to know all sources of funding received by political parties regardless of their receipt type. Having said that, it is worth pointing out that only payments designated by the donor or party as a 'donation' attract the legal requirements associated with donating to a political party. ie Payments that are not donations can be made by charities or other types of organisations without the same legal implications that those payments would attract were they designated as 'donations'.

Donor

Figures include donations, payments and government funding.

BUSINESSES 4,746 $258.095M
INDIVIDUALS 2,288 $43.740M
ASSOCIATED ENTITIES 2,105 $124.918M
AGENCIES 1,222 $433.714M
INDUSTRY ASSOCIATIONS 738 $13.150M
TRUSTS AND ESTATES 93 $3.125M
CAMPAIGNERS 73 $0.717M
THIRD PARTIES 28 $1.508M
OTHERS 18 $0.131M
UNIVERSITIES 13 $0.102M

Party

Donations aggregated over the past six financial years

1ALP $331.674M 34.64%
2LIBS $318.936M 33.31%
3PALMER UNITED $131.320M 13.71%
4GREENS $56.643M 5.92%
5NATS $48.807M 5.10%
6LNP $41.947M 4.38%
7PHON $4.120M 0.43%
8CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS $3.987M 0.42%
9FAMILY FIRST $3.419M 0.36%
10AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATIVES $3.157M 0.33%
11CENTRE ALLIANCE $3.082M 0.32%
12KATTER $2.241M 0.23%
13LIBERAL DEMOCRATS $1.859M 0.19%
14SUSTAINABLE AUSTRALIA $1.648M 0.17%
15ANIMAL JUSTICE $0.944M 0.10%
16HINCH $0.880M 0.09%
17SHOOTERS, FISHERS, FARMERS $0.663M 0.07%
18FLUX $0.262M 0.03%
19SEX $0.256M 0.03%
20DEMOCRATIC LABOUR $0.241M 0.03%
21AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIANS $0.203M 0.02%
22LAZARUS $0.181M 0.02%
23LAMBIE $0.119M 0.01%
24VOLUNTARY EUTHENASIA $0.100M 0.01%
25MARRIAGE EQUALITY $0.100M 0.01%
26RECREATIONAL FISHERS $0.075M 0.01%
27RISE UP $0.074M 0.01%
28SOCIALIST ALLIANCE $0.069M 0.01%
29COUNTRY ALLIANCE $0.067M 0.01%
30LIBERTY ALLIANCE $0.060M 0.01%
31FIRST NATIONS $0.050M 0.01%
32AUSTRALIAN CITIZENS PARTY $0.045M 0.00%
33CLIMATE ACTION $0.042M 0.00%
34FISHING AND LIFESTYLE $0.040M 0.00%
35HEMP $0.037M 0.00%
36REPUBLICAN $0.033M 0.00%
37AUSTRALIAN RECREATIONAL FISHERS $0.029M 0.00%
38AFFORDABLE HOUSING $0.026M 0.00%
39THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN PARTY $0.025M 0.00%
40UNITING AUSTRALIA $0.025M 0.00%
41BULLET TRAIN FOR AUSTRALIA $0.024M 0.00%
42OUTDOOR RECREATION $0.024M 0.00%
43MANUFACTURING AND FARMING $0.020M 0.00%
44SENATOR ONLINE $0.019M 0.00%
45WESTERN AUSTRALIA PARTY $0.018M 0.00%
46AUSTRALIAN CYCLISTS PARTY $0.015M 0.00%

Electorate

Address information is not provided in AEC donations made by some individuals data due to privacy considerations. Location totals include only records where address information is available and payments or donations are above the disclosure threshold. Not all postcodes/suburbs have political donors. Figures are for the past six financial years.

ElectorateValueRecipients%
1 CANBERRA $261,706,075 16 27.990%
2 SYDNEY $203,980,538 17 21.810%
3 BRISBANE $153,647,924 10 16.430%
4 MELBOURNE $107,493,196 18 11.490%
5 GRIFFITH $24,177,269 6 2.590%
6 PERTH $23,453,250 7 2.510%
7 HERBERT $21,624,381 3 2.310%
8 LINDSAY $16,886,371 6 1.810%
9 ADELAIDE $15,532,516 7 1.660%
10 GOLDSTEIN $13,886,050 6 1.480%
11 MACNAMARA $10,479,211 8 1.120%
12 NORTH SYDNEY $5,304,090 7 0.570%
13 FARRER $4,974,798 5 0.530%
14 STURT $4,753,155 6 0.510%
15 HIGGINS $4,159,781 6 0.440%
16 BENNELONG $3,551,509 5 0.380%
17 KOOYONG $3,464,828 6 0.370%
18 WENTWORTH $2,848,005 8 0.300%
19 FAIRFAX $2,679,649 3 0.290%
20 PARRAMATTA $2,387,017 4 0.260%
21 CURTIN $2,199,862 8 0.240%
22 CLARK $1,992,750 3 0.210%
23 CHISHOLM $1,891,242 6 0.200%
24 SOLOMON $1,777,570 4 0.190%
25 LILLEY $1,709,967 6 0.180%
26 BLAXLAND $1,497,165 3 0.160%
27 FISHER $1,382,875 2 0.150%
28 ISAACS $1,322,278 6 0.140%
29 PARKES $1,252,448 2 0.130%
30 SWAN $1,203,321 5 0.130%
31 WARRINGAH $1,054,035 6 0.110%
32 TANGNEY $935,600 4 0.100%
33 FREMANTLE $873,911 4 0.090%
34 FOWLER $870,191 2 0.090%
35 MONCRIEFF $866,948 5 0.090%
36 HOTHAM $856,402 6 0.090%
37 STIRLING $854,467 4 0.090%
38 ASTON $853,233 2 0.090%
39 WILLS $793,452 3 0.080%
40 RYAN $735,375 6 0.080%
41 REID $703,882 6 0.080%
42 FLINDERS $674,850 2 0.070%
43 BOOTHBY $673,412 3 0.070%
44 PAGE $668,500 3 0.070%
45 MENZIES $660,409 3 0.070%
46 BLAIR $639,686 4 0.070%
47 BOWMAN $632,750 5 0.070%
48 CORANGAMITE $595,086 2 0.060%
49 BENDIGO $578,917 3 0.060%
50 MACKELLAR $570,328 4 0.060%
51 MORETON $566,657 5 0.060%
52 BONNER $497,122 3 0.050%
53 MITCHELL $495,734 4 0.050%
54 SCULLIN $484,252 2 0.050%
55 NEWCASTLE $479,795 2 0.050%
56 BANKS $466,216 2 0.050%
57 GROOM $441,495 3 0.050%
58 MCPHERSON $433,247 8 0.050%
59 GELLIBRAND $420,173 3 0.040%
60 FADDEN $399,200 3 0.040%
61 BEROWRA $352,953 3 0.040%
62 CALWELL $337,962 3 0.040%
63 COOK $321,906 4 0.030%
64 GREY $320,000 1 0.030%
65 WHITLAM $309,584 3 0.030%
66 KINGSFORD SMITH $295,314 3 0.030%
67 DURACK $292,890 2 0.030%
68 OXLEY $289,266 2 0.030%
69 MARIBYRNONG $286,502 3 0.030%
70 CAPRICORNIA $284,956 2 0.030%
71 HOLT $280,100 1 0.030%
72 HUNTER $274,081 2 0.030%
73 PEARCE $268,666 1 0.030%
74 COWAN $267,851 4 0.030%
75 DICKSON $259,272 3 0.030%
76 LA TROBE $254,000 2 0.030%
77 LYNE $250,000 2 0.030%
78 BASS $249,331 4 0.030%
79 LEICHHARDT $246,753 4 0.030%
80 RICHMOND $241,548 3 0.030%
81 LINGIARI $234,302 2 0.030%
82 NICHOLLS $227,696 4 0.020%
83 BRADDON $225,439 4 0.020%
84 BRAND $212,302 3 0.020%
85 FORDE $211,397 4 0.020%
86 CORIO $210,185 4 0.020%
87 NEW ENGLAND $197,750 4 0.020%
88 COOPER $195,343 3 0.020%
89 MCMAHON $191,902 2 0.020%
90 GRAYNDLER $189,623 3 0.020%
91 MAYO $185,000 1 0.020%
92 O'CONNOR $181,906 3 0.020%
93 BURT $178,632 3 0.020%
94 BEAN $170,084 3 0.020%
95 CASEY $169,000 3 0.020%
96 KENNEDY $166,200 4 0.020%
97 CANNING $165,000 4 0.020%
98 BRADFIELD $161,200 2 0.020%
99 GILMORE $157,256 3 0.020%
100 DAWSON $156,750 1 0.020%
101 EDEN-MONARO $139,399 3 0.010%
102 BARTON $137,300 2 0.010%
103 MOORE $135,600 3 0.010%
104 LALOR $134,742 3 0.010%
105 ROBERTSON $116,374 2 0.010%
106 WIDE BAY $115,160 4 0.010%
107 HINKLER $111,631 2 0.010%
108 FORREST $103,998 4 0.010%
109 HUGHES $81,500 2 0.010%
110 FLYNN $79,350 3 0.010%
111 CHIFLEY $79,302 2 0.010%
112 BRUCE $79,000 4 0.010%
113 FRANKLIN $77,252 4 0.010%
114 CUNNINGHAM $74,873 3 0.010%
115 KINGSTON $74,302 2 0.010%
116 MONASH $74,000 1 0.010%
117 WANNON $73,500 2 0.010%
118 PETRIE $68,000 3 0.010%
119 RANKIN $66,422 3 0.010%
120 WRIGHT $65,733 2 0.010%
121 MARANOA $65,716 2 0.010%
122 LONGMAN $62,002 2 0.010%
123 DUNKLEY $60,000 1 0.010%
124 RIVERINA $56,675 3 0.010%
125 INDI $56,000 1 0.010%
126 GORTON $55,500 2 0.010%
127 WATSON $54,402 3 0.010%
128 DOBELL $45,000 1 0.000%
129 MALLEE $45,000 2 0.000%
130 HINDMARSH $39,302 1 0.000%
131 PATERSON $37,533 1 0.000%
132 JAGAJAGA $31,950 2 0.000%
133 WERRIWA $25,000 1 0.000%
134 MACQUARIE $24,302 2 0.000%
135 FRASER $22,200 2 0.000%
136 FENNER $21,662 1 0.000%
137 DEAKIN $21,500 2 0.000%
138 GIPPSLAND $19,947 1 0.000%
139 HUME $16,650 2 0.000%
140 BALLARAT $6,902 1 0.000%
141 BARKER $5,000 1 0.000%
142 GREENWAY $4,302 1 0.000%
143 MAKIN $4,302 1 0.000%
144 SPENCE $4,302 1 0.000%
145 HASLUCK $3,900 2 0.000%
146 MCEWEN $3,650 1 0.000%
147 SHORTLAND $3,300 1 0.000%
148 CALARE $1,000 1 0.000%

Tax Payers

Non Tax Payers

Payments to political parties from Third Parties

A ‘third party’ is a person or entity (other than a political entity or a member of the House of Representatives or the Senate) incurring electoral expenditure that is: more than the disclosure threshold during a financial year; but below the amount that would require registration as a ‘political campaigner’ (see below). AEC

There are instances of organisations that appear both on the AEC list of Associated Entities and the list of Third Parties. There are also instances of organisations that appear on the Political Campaigners list and the Third Parties list. Among these entities there are entries for Electoral Expenditure for organisations in the Poltical Campaigners table that have no corresponding entry for 18-19 in the Third Parties data.

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Category Name Recipient Value Number
149 Third Parties HIGGINS 200 CLUB LIBS LIBS - VIC $385,000 [3]
150 Third Parties TEAM 200 CLUB LIBS LIBS - VIC $243,044 [2]
151 Third Parties MENZIES 200 CLUB LIBS LIBS - VIC $218,000 [2]
152 Third Parties QUEENSLAND COUNCIL OF UNIONS ALP ALP - QLD $178,358 [10]
153 Third Parties UNIONS NSW ALP ALP - NSW $174,728 [3]
154 Third Parties CAULFIELD CHALLENGE 200 CLUB LIBS LIBS - VIC $105,000 [1]
155 Third Parties ALLIANCE OF AUSTRALIA RETAILERS LIBERAL DEMOCRATS LDP $90,000 [1]
156 Third Parties MURRAY 250 CLUB LIBS LIBS - VIC $85,000 [2]
Category Name Recipient Value Number
1 Third Parties AUSTRALIAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION ALP ALP - FED $26,000 [2]
2 Third Parties UNIONS NSW ALP ALP - FED $1,950 [1]
3 Third Parties SAVE OUR MARINE LIFE ALLIANCE ALP ALP - FED $1,100 [1]
PartyValue%Number
1 LIBS $1,036,044 68.69% [10]
2 ALP $221,818 14.71% [16]
3 LAZARUS $160,318 10.63% [1]
4 LIBERAL DEMOCRATS $90,000 5.97% [1]

Expenditure Candidate Printing Broadcast Opinion Polls Issue Gifts Received
1 GETUP $29,046,639 $7,263,250 $3,549,203 $792,421 $14,536,296 $1,193,693
2 AUSTRALIAN COUNCIL OF TRADE UNIONS $24,038,859 $451,674 $17,317,762 $2,269,435 $2,931,987 $25,469,396
3 COAL21 $9,998,631 $0 $7,293,535 $56,130 $646,145 $0
4 AEU $9,515,741 $474,563 $4,264,054 $450,579 $1,908,757 $0
5 UNIVERSITIES AUSTRALIA $5,467,078 $0 $3,313,450 $333,256 $0 $10,000,000
6 MINERALS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA $4,657,918 $0 $1,924,756 $0 $222,761 $0
7 BUSINESS COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA $4,554,229 $16,500 $3,013,428 $106,700 $338,974 $220,000
8 NEW SOUTH WALES NURSES AND MIDWIVES' ASSOCIATION $3,789,234 $22,166 $3,096,665 $88,270 $40,763 $0
9 ANIMALS AUSTRALIA FEDERATION $2,467,532 $0 $0 $0 $197,130 $0
10 AEU NSW TEACHERS FEDERATION $2,283,051 $1,193,569 $414,608 $42,075 $190,497 $0
11 UNITED VOICE $2,137,691 $712,109 $84,876 $90,727 $803,063 $0
12 AMWU $1,956,284 $0 $0 $2,295 $136,566 $0
13 INDUSTRY SUPER AUSTRALIA $1,677,001 $0 $1,677,001 $0 $0 $0
14 WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE AUSTRALIA $1,563,467 $0 $121,728 $46,310 $2,500 $1,606,000
15 DICK SMITH $1,375,881 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
16 NTEU $1,371,456 $320,614 $790,319 $35,069 $67,990 $0
17 AUSTRALIAN MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE CLERICAL AND SERVICES UNION $1,288,623 $1,288,623 $0 $0 $0 $0
18 AUSTRALIAN AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION $1,207,018 $0 $777,254 $59,482 $45,843 $0
19 THE MINDEROO FOUNDATION ATF THE MINDEROO FOUNDATION TRUST $973,194 $0 $796,049 $177,145 $0 $402,000,000
20 AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION $928,546 $0 $0 $128,878 $124,003 $0
21 CFMEU - CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL DIVISION (WA BRANCH) $841,269 $841,269 $0 $0 $0 $0
22 MASTER BUILDERS AUSTRALIA $775,026 $0 $70,317 $0 $0 $0
23 QUEENSLAND NURSES AND MIDWIVES' UNION $774,669 $10,359 $131,338 $0 $406,550 $0
24 QUEENSLAND TEACHERS UNION OF EMPLOYEES $726,656 $0 $242,000 $7,010 $425,434 $0
25 AUSTRALIAN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY FEDERATION $524,733 $252 $0 $0 $489,264 $0
26 GREENPEACE AUSTRALIA PACIFIC $478,195 $139,705 $28,045 $43,047 $15,340 $0
27 UNIONS NSW $460,810 $157,252 $0 $41,800 $0 $0
28 COMMUNITY AND PUBLIC SECTOR UNION (PSU GROUP) $453,467 $22,094 $500 $10,655 $31,693 $0
29 AUSTRALIAN YOUTH CLIMATE COALITION $437,483 $0 $0 $0 $13,170 $0
30 AUSTRALIAN CHRISTIAN LOBBY $430,978 $28,386 $0 $21,450 $149,478 $273,640
31 ROYAL AUSTRALIAN COLLEGE OF GENERAL PRACTITIONERS $429,782 $0 $419,212 $0 $0 $0
32 MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT AND ARTS ALLIANCE $412,836 $23,158 $0 $0 $0 $0
33 BOB BROWN FOUNDATION $375,750 $0 $0 $0 $0 $34,045
34 ONE COMMUNITY SA $351,329 $0 $123,762 $0 $0 $0
35 CEPU $317,793 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
36 THE SUNRISE PROJECT AUSTRALIA $306,548 $0 $0 $36,960 $71,772 $865,000
37 AUSTRALIAN NURSING AND MIDWIFERY FEDERATION SA $283,101 $0 $0 $0 $112,806 $0
38 WORLD VISION AUSTRALIA $262,490 $0 $0 $13,000 $54,515 $262,490
39 NATIONAL UNION OF WORKERS - NATIONAL OFFICE $242,294 $54,753 $0 $47,675 $65,541 $0
40 FARMERS FOR CLIMATE ACTION $221,539 $0 $58,566 $0 $0 $482,704
41 TASMANIAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY $220,629 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
42 THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY $208,208 $0 $0 $5,000 $25,203 $89,750
43 THE AUSTRALIAN WORKERS' UNION OF EMPLOYEES QUEENSLAND $205,180 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
44 CPSU $200,000 $0 $0 $0 $150,000 $0
45 ELECTRICAL TRADES UNION OF AUSTRALIA NSW BRANCH $191,946 $0 $1,000 $0 $0 $0
46 CHERISH LIFE QUEENSLAND INC $151,218 $0 $0 $0 $0 $20,000
47 SA ROAD TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION $150,000 $0 $150,000 $0 $0 $100,000
48 NEW SOUTH WALES LOCAL GOVERNMENT CLERICAL ADMINISTRATIVE ENERGY AIRLINES AND UTILITIES UNION T/A UNITED SERVICES UNION $147,640 $0 $0 $0 $8,410 $0
49 CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK $140,113 $0 $0 $0 $0 $143,400
50 CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS AUSTRALIA $139,803 $0 $0 $0 $0 $47,500
51 SMART ENERGY COUNCIL (PREVIOUSLY AUSTRALIAN SOLAR COUNCIL) $136,908 $26,280 $0 $0 $0 $36,000
52 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE VISUAL ARTS $130,233 $0 $0 $0 $0 $143,257
53 JOHN CRAWFORD $129,545 $0 $0 $0 $0 $45,000
54 ENVIRONMENT VICTORIA $128,271 $25,209 $6,953 $15,400 $49,900 $0
55 AUSTRALIAN MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATIVE CLERICAL AND SERVICES UNION - QUEENSLAND TOGETHER BRANCH $117,387 $0 $0 $6,253 $0 $0
56 THE CLIMATE INSTITUTE $107,010 $9,650 $31,210 $38,650 $0 $220,000
57 SHOP DISTRIBUTIVE AND ALLIED EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION - VIC BRANCH $106,302 $90,206 $0 $16,096 $0 $0
58 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA $102,964 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
59 AUSTRALIAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATION $97,509 $0 $0 $16,072 $32,920 $0
60 THE OAKTREE FOUNDATION AUSTRALIA $97,507 $0 $0 $0 $89,245 $0
61 CFMEU - CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL DIVISION, NATIONAL OFFICE $93,205 $0 $33,376 $0 $0 $0
62 SHOP DISTRIBUTIVE AND ALLIED EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION (QLD BRANCH) $90,646 $16,042 $0 $0 $74,604 $0
63 GENDER AWARENESS AUSTRALIA $87,454 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
64 SHOP DISTRIBUTIVE AND ALLIED EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA $79,898 $0 $0 $79,442 $0 $0
65 ALLIANCE OF AUSTRALIAN RETAILERS $79,338 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
66 NATIONAL CIVIC COUNCIL $72,537 $51,219 $21,318 $0 $0 $0
67 QUEENSLAND COUNCIL OF UNIONS (QCU) $71,390 $134 $0 $3,297 $63,375 $0
68 COUNCIL OF MAYORS (SEQ) $66,747 $0 $0 $0 $65,958 $0
69 ASU $57,907 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
70 SHOP, DISTRIBUTIVE AND ALLIED EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION - NATIONAL $57,343 $57,343 $0 $0 $0 $0
71 MASTER BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA $56,685 $0 $0 $0 $56,685 $0
72 CONSTRUCTION FORESTRY MARITIME MINING AND ENERGY UNION THE CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL DIVISION ACT DIVISIONAL BRANCH $55,104 $0 $0 $0 $34,448 $0
73 ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY NATIONAL COUNCIL OF AUSTRALIA $50,210 $0 $0 $0 $50,210 $0
74 FAIR AGENDA $44,730 $0 $0 $0 $17,947 $20,000
75 SHOP ASSISTANTS AND WAREHOUSE EMPLOYEES' FEDERATION OF AUSTRALIA-NEWCASTLE AND NORTHERN NSW $43,213 $0 $14,022 $1,067 $8,205 $0
76 DRAGOMAN $41,231 $0 $0 $0 $25,000 $0
77 THE STATE SCHOOL TEACHER'S UNION OF WA (INC.) $39,804 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
78 AUSTRALIAN MARINE CONSERVATION SOCIETY $37,261 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
79 SHOP DISTRIBUTIVE AND ALLIED EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BRANCH (STATE BODY) $36,853 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
80 INDEPENDENT EDUCATION UNION $34,740 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
81 AUSTRALIAN WORKERS UNION WA BRANCH $34,724 $0 $0 $34,724 $0 $0
82 HEALTH SERVICES UNION, TASMANIA BRANCH $33,000 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
83 RSPCA AUSTRALIA $26,271 $0 $0 $2,700 $23,571 $0
84 AUSTRALIAN TAXPAYERS' ALLIANCE $25,620 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
85 AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS $24,750 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
86 AUSTRALASIAN MEAT INDUSTRY EMPLOYEES' UNION - QLD BRANCH $21,420 $21,420 $0 $0 $0 $0
87 VOICES FOR FARRER INC. $21,148 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
88 THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY VICTORIA INC. $20,900 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
89 RITEON $20,551 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
90 CATHOLIC EDUCATION MELBOURNE $20,054 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
91 SHOP DISTRIBUTIVE AND ALLIED EMPLOYEES' ASSOCIATION NSW BRANCH $17,507 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
92 IR21 $16,460 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
93 RTBU $16,335 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
94 SAVE THE CHILDREN AUSTRALIA $16,280 $0 $0 $16,280 $0 $0
95 TRANSPORT WORKERS UNION OF NEW SOUTH WALES $15,622 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
96 CONSTRUCTION FORESTRY MINING AND ENERGY, INDUSTRIAL UNION OF EMPLOYEES, QUEENSLAND - CONSTRUCTION AND GENERAL DIVISION $13,825 $11,922 $0 $0 $0 $0
97 GREEN MUSIC AUSTRALIA $6,100 $0 $0 $0 $6,100 $0
98 350 AUSTRALIA $4,708 $0 $0 $0 $4,708 $0
99 HEALTH SERVICES UNION - NATIONAL OFFICE $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
100 HEALTH SERVICES UNION, VICTORIA NO. 3 BRANCH (VAHPA) $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
101 NATIONAL UNION OF WORKERS $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
102 THE FOOD PRESERVERS' UNION OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA UNION OF WORKERS $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
103 AUSTRALIAN FEDERATED UNION OF LOCOMOTIVE EMPLOYEES $0 $0 $0 $0 $0 $0
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Policy, Activism and Testimonials


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

We could hear from digital rights organisations like the Privacy Foundation, Digital Rights Watch and Electronic Frontiers Australia and from specialist researchers like Rosie Williams and Asher Wolf, who have led the debate online. (Australian Hansard)
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

A COMMUNITY INITIATIVE TO MAKE RACISM, BIGOTRY, MISOGYNY & CLIMATE CHANGE DENIAL LESS PROFITABLE

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 NSW Ministerial Diaries data (not currently online) was supplied by Nick Evershed and associates. The pecuniary interests register data was originally supplied by icacpls however for over a year I have updated it manually.

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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. Data schemas & other information is available here. Click on the dataset icons.

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.

If I share these opinions/inferences in a tweet this does not imply that this is my opinion but that I am sharing the opinion of another person for comment.

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

https://ausgov.info/recipient/index.php?Category=Third%20Parties