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.
$135,677,771
Reported work expenses · IPEA · 9 months · Oct-Dec 2025 – Apr–Jun 2026
▲ 9.1%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025▲ 5.2%vs Oct-Dec 2024 – Apr-Jun 2025≈ $4.92 per Australian over this period
Modelled salary & super would add $71,469,387 — .
Excludes electorate-office staff salaries (MOPS Act) and office accommodation — typically hundreds of thousands to over $1M per office per year.
Parliamentarians
282
Median expenses
$468,422
Avg expenses
$481,127
By chamber (expenses)
- House · 191$96,788,75871.3% of total▲ 8.2%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- Senate · 91$38,889,01328.7% of total▲ 11%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
By party · top 6 (expenses)
- Australian Labor Party · 140$80,298,56059.2% of total▲ 16%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- Liberal Party of Australia · 78$28,694,41221.1% of total▼ 5.3%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- National Party of Australia · 22$10,208,8847.5% of total▲ 3.6%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- Independent · 22$8,932,7256.6% of total▲ 8.9%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- Australian Greens · 14$5,125,5083.8% of total▼ 6.0%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- Pauline Hanson's One Nation · 6$2,417,6811.8% of total▲ 62%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
By state / territory (expenses)
- NSW · 73$38,995,11028.7% of total▲ 5.4%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- VIC · 61$27,210,19220.1% of total▲ 8.8%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- QLD · 53$26,019,22419.2% of total▲ 11%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- WA · 33$17,738,93813.1% of total▲ 21%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- SA · 26$13,060,9609.6% of total▲ 4.1%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- TAS · 21$6,901,3595.1% of total▲ 13%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- NT · 5$3,202,8522.4% of total▼ 1.7%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- ACT · 5$1,873,2041.4% of total▲ 6.2%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
- — · 5$675,9320.5% of total▲ 9.1%vs Jan-Mar 2025 – Jul-Sep 2025
Highest work expenses · 9 months
Full register →| # | Name | Party | State | Qtrs | Expenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 3/3 | $3,394,348 |
| 2 | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party | SA | 3/3 | $1,592,132 |
| 3 | Penny Wong | Australian Labor Party | SA | 3/3 | $1,517,976 |
| 4 | Richard Marles | Australian Labor Party | VIC | 3/3 | $1,489,332 |
| 5 | Tony Burke | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 3/3 | $1,397,296 |
| 6 | Madeleine King | Australian Labor Party | WA | 3/3 | $1,385,842 |
| 7 | Sussan Ley | Liberal Party of Australia | NSW | 3/3 | $1,265,614 |
| 8 | Chris Bowen | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 3/3 | $1,259,072 |
| 9 | Tanya Plibersek | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 3/3 | $1,209,597 |
| 10 | Jim Chalmers | Australian Labor Party | QLD | 3/3 | $1,188,778 |
Work expenses as reported by IPEA 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.