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The money map

Every recorded political donation, placed on the left-right spectrum. 60 of the largest donors ranked by which way their money leans. Every donor, recipient, party and sector here is a link to the records behind it.

Political spread leans right · $1,048,481,542 total
← left of the cutdrag to split the moneyright of the cut →
left of the line
$438,724,024 42%
right of the line
$609,757,518 58%
What is, and is not, in this map

These figures are a disclosed floor, not the full picture. They are the federal AEC annual returns above the disclosure threshold. Not captured here: sub-threshold gifts under the reporting cap, undisclosed in-kind support, current staffer arrangements, party panels and boards, and money routed through associated entities we have not yet linked.

104 administrative / public-funding bodies (the AEC, departments and electoral commissions, carrying $0 of public-funding disbursements) are detached from the donor ranks below and labelled where they appear. They re-distribute public money, they are not third-party donors.

A further $3,688,692,609 across 42,876 AEC "other receipts" (commercial payments, settlements, investment income, subscriptions) is excluded from these totals. The AEC records those against parties and entities alongside gifts, but they are not political donations.

Inside the catch-all

resolution ledger

The old single "Other / associated" bucket held $152,445,151. Party-aligned fundraising and holding vehicles are now attributed to their party, third parties are split by type, and money moving inside one organisation family is netted out. What is left genuinely unknown is $101,211,575, a 34% cut.

Party-aligned vehicles $897,166,391 Unions $796,876 Industry bodies $507,781 Advocacy $48,798,919 Internal (netted out) $139,180,905 Other / associated $101,211,575
Internal / affiliated transfers netted out of the headline total ($1,187,662,447$1,048,481,542)
Cormack Foundation Pty Ltd Liberals (VIC) $44,538,000
Labor Holdings Pty Ltd Labor (QLD) $40,311,174
John Curtin House Limited Labor (Fed) $16,258,830
Labor Holdings Pty Ltd Labor (Fed) $7,650,000
Vapold Pty Ltd Liberals (VIC) $7,284,964
Liberals (VIC) Liberal Party (Fed) $6,974,824
Liberals (NSW) Liberal Party (Fed) $5,321,455
Liberals (WA) Liberal Party (Fed) $4,418,481
Labor Holdings Pty Ltd Labor (VIC) $2,866,671
Liberals (SA) Liberal Party (Fed) $1,135,143
The Union Education Foundation Limited Australian Council of Trade Unions $770,000
Liberals (QLD) Liberal Party (Fed) $707,236

Donors who give to both sides

20 ranked by combined major-party giving

Organisations whose disclosed money reaches both Labor and the Coalition. The bar shows how each splits between the two. A fact about the cheque book, not a motive.