A public-record influence graph for Australia

Six registers tell six stories. We join them into one.

Donations, lobbying registers, ministerial diaries, government contracts, registers of interests and the revolving door, entity-resolved into a single graph you can search. It is the only Australian tool that links these datasets to each other, so the path between a donor and a decision becomes something you can trace, not guess.

Last ingest 2026-07-02. Federal donations move to near-real-time disclosure on 1 January 2027.

Trace a link

Donor Hancock Prospecting Donations disclosed to the AEC, 1999–2024.
Lobbying firm GRA Partners
Diary entry Resources roundtable
Portfolio holder Minister for Resources
Start of trace One donor. Four records. One path no single register would show you.
Logged meetings
157,435

Ministerial diary entries, refreshed daily

Lobbying engagements
7,591

Third-party registrations across the states

Disclosed donations
$1.2bn

97,869 gifts on the federal record

Resolved entities
94,830

44,083 people, 50,747 organisations

1 Jan 2027

The disclosure deadline that makes the rest legible.

From the start of 2027, federal political donations must be disclosed close to real time, not dribbled out in an annual return eighteen months late. That single change turns donations from history into a live feed.

A live feed is only useful if you can read it against everything else: who was lobbying, who was in the room, who won the contract. OpenInfluence is the layer that holds those records together, so when the money starts moving in the open, the context is already there.

One graph, six sources of record.

Each register is published on its own, in its own format, with its own names for the same people and firms. We resolve those identities and connect the records, so an organisation carries its donations, its lobbying, its meetings and its contracts on one page.

  1. 01

    Political donations

    97,869 disclosed gifts, federal returns 1999–2024

    Who funds whom, and how the money leans

  2. 02

    Lobbyist registers

    7,591 third-party engagements across the states

    Which firms act for which clients

  3. 03

    Ministerial diaries

    157,435 logged meetings, refreshed daily

    Who got in the room, and when

  4. 04

    Government contracts

    AusTender awards, refreshed daily

    Who the spending actually flows to

  5. 05

    Registers of interests

    Members' declared holdings and gifts

    What a decision-maker stands to gain

  6. 06

    The revolving door

    Movements between office, firm and board

    Where former insiders landed

See the money before you read the story.

The money map arranges every disclosed donor across the political spectrum and lets you draw a cut line: how much of the total sits left of it, how much right. Click a party to isolate its donors. It is the fastest way to see who is funding whom, at a glance.

  • Filter to a sector, jurisdiction or year and watch the balance shift.
  • Jump from any donor straight to its entity page and full record.
  • Free to browse, no account needed.
Open the money map
Money map $1.2bn in donations · federal, 1999–2025
leans leftbalancedleans right
  • Labor $0.33bn
  • Coalition $0.41bn
  • Greens $0.03bn
  • Other / independent $0.42bn

Every figure here comes from a public register. We resolve identities and join records; we do not infer intent, allege wrongdoing, or score anyone's politics. The influence index is a computed proxy from disclosed activity, nothing more.

Read the method and the caveats

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OpenInfluence

Australia's political-influence record, joined into one graph: donations, lobbying registers, ministerial diaries, contracts, registers of interests, and the revolving door.

Built on public records. No political inference, no scoring of intent.