Window · Oct-Dec 2025 – Apr–Jun 2026
The cost of representation, on the public record.
OpenBench.au aggregates the quarterly expenditure of every Australian federal parliamentarian into a single, source-linked register. Independent. Non-partisan. Drawn directly from the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority.
$132,183,295
Total cost to taxpayers · 9 months · Oct-Dec 2025 – Apr–Jun 2026
$85,502,368 expenses·$41,474,095 salary·$5,206,832 super
Excludes electorate-office staff salaries (MOPS Act) and office accommodation — typically hundreds of thousands to over $1M per office per year.
Parliamentarians
270
Avg salary + super
$172,892
Avg expenses
$316,675
By chamber (expenses)
- House · 181$61,414,76871.8% of total
- Senate · 89$24,087,60028.2% of total
By party · top 6 (expenses)
- Australian Labor Party · 137$51,172,03159.8% of total
- Liberal Party of Australia · 73$17,739,32920.7% of total
- National Party of Australia · 20$6,298,5687.4% of total
- Independent · 22$5,531,0386.5% of total
- Australian Greens · 13$3,226,6753.8% of total
- Pauline Hanson's One Nation · 5$1,534,7261.8% of total
By state / territory (expenses)
- NSW · 70$25,531,00829.9% of total
- VIC · 59$16,955,60619.8% of total
- QLD · 50$16,253,83719.0% of total
- WA · 31$10,899,37812.7% of total
- SA · 26$8,133,0189.5% of total
- TAS · 20$4,141,1284.8% of total
- NT · 4$1,917,5762.2% of total
- ACT · 5$1,244,7981.5% of total
- — · 5$426,0180.5% of total
Highest taxpayer cost · 9 months
Full register →| # | Name | Party | State | Qtrs | Salary + super | Expenses | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 2/3 | $379,783 | $2,428,059 | $2,807,843 |
| 2 | Sussan Ley | Liberal Party of Australia | NSW | 2/3 | $278,670 | $1,168,183 | $1,446,853 |
| 3 | Penny Wong | Australian Labor Party | SA | 2/3 | $261,818 | $1,034,807 | $1,296,625 |
| 4 | Tony Burke | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 2/3 | $261,818 | $1,026,922 | $1,288,740 |
| 5 | Richard Marles | Australian Labor Party | VIC | 2/3 | $305,627 | $954,635 | $1,260,262 |
| 6 | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party | SA | 2/3 | $261,818 | $925,065 | $1,186,882 |
| 7 | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 2/3 | $261,818 | $889,775 | $1,151,592 |
| 8 | Madeleine King | Australian Labor Party | WA | 2/3 | $261,818 | $876,759 | $1,138,577 |
| 9 | Tanya Plibersek | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 2/3 | $261,818 | $830,402 | $1,092,220 |
| 10 | Michelle Rowland | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 2/3 | $261,818 | $818,096 | $1,079,914 |
Reported expenses (IPEA) + modelled salary & super (Remuneration Tribunal) over Oct-Dec 2025 – Apr–Jun 2026. Excludes electorate-office staff (MOPS Act), office accommodation, and defined-benefit pension accruals for pre-2004 members. Qtrs = number of quarters in the window the parliamentarian was on the public record.