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Australian government spending

What Australian governments spend, drawn straight from the public record.

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7 public-money datasets, each updated as its source publishes. Open a card for the full record, the trend, and the sources behind it.

Top of the ledger

MP expenses · Apr–Jun 2026

The 12 parliamentarians who claimed the most last quarter, ranked by gross.

  1. #1
    Anthony Albanese
    ALP · NSW5.4× median
    $966,288
    International Traveldisc. $898,521
  2. #2
    Don Farrell
    ALP · SA3.7× median
    $667,068
    International Traveldisc. $576,680
  3. #3
    Richard Marles
    ALP · VIC
    $534,696
    International Traveldisc. $451,796
  4. #4
    $509,083
    Office Administrationdisc. $447,692
  5. #5
    Penny Wong
    ALP · SA
    $483,169
    International Traveldisc. $429,803
  6. #6
    Tim Ayres
    ALP · NSW
    $442,236
    Office Administrationdisc. $362,815
  7. #7
    Clare O'Neil
    ALP · VIC
    $438,934
    Office Administrationdisc. $381,178
  8. #8
    Jim Chalmers
    ALP · QLD
    $422,322
    Office Administrationdisc. $328,791
  9. #9
    $419,367
    Office Administrationdisc. $376,924
  10. #10
    $407,556
    Office Administrationdisc. $306,069
  11. #11
    Anne Aly
    ALP · WA
    $407,506
    Office Administrationdisc. $344,881
  12. #12
    Pat Conroy
    ALP · NSW
    $407,376
    Office Administrationdisc. $333,033
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