Window · Apr-Jun 2017 – 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.
$2,047,990,071
Total cost to taxpayers · Since Q2 2017 · Apr-Jun 2017 – Apr–Jun 2026
$1,230,551,510 expenses·$726,188,794 salary·$91,249,767 super
Excludes electorate-office staff salaries (MOPS Act) and office accommodation — typically hundreds of thousands to over $1M per office per year.
Parliamentarians
418
Avg salary + super
$1,955,595
Avg expenses
$2,943,903
By chamber (expenses)
- House · 280$898,139,27073.0% of total
- Senate · 138$332,412,24127.0% of total
By party · top 6 (expenses)
- Australian Labor Party · 180$514,677,86241.8% of total
- Liberal Party of Australia · 141$469,545,49738.2% of total
- National Party of Australia · 33$116,621,5619.5% of total
- Independent · 36$69,686,8275.7% of total
- Australian Greens · 21$44,116,1343.6% of total
- Pauline Hanson's One Nation · 5$15,851,7351.3% of total
By state / territory (expenses)
- NSW · 101$358,977,31229.2% of total
- VIC · 93$259,739,55621.1% of total
- QLD · 74$232,583,48818.9% of total
- WA · 52$156,463,83412.7% of total
- SA · 42$109,976,5818.9% of total
- TAS · 31$62,036,8215.0% of total
- NT · 8$23,928,0151.9% of total
- ACT · 7$17,239,0551.4% of total
- — · 8$7,590,1960.6% of total
- SU · 2$2,016,6520.2% of total
Highest taxpayer cost · since q2 2017
Full register →| # | Name | Party | State | Qtrs | Salary + super | Expenses | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 36/37 | $5,329,500 | $21,924,246 | $27,253,746 |
| 2 | Scott Morrison | Liberal Party of Australia | NSW | 37/37 | $5,698,025 | $17,479,838 | $23,177,864 |
| 3 | Peter Dutton | Liberal Party of Australia | QLD | 35/37 | $4,625,623 | $12,826,619 | $17,452,242 |
| 4 | Bill Shorten | Australian Labor Party | VIC | 36/37 | $3,826,263 | $12,885,729 | $16,711,992 |
| 5 | David Littleproud | National Party of Australia | QLD | 36/37 | $4,126,243 | $11,693,035 | $15,819,277 |
| 6 | Michael McCormack | National Party of Australia | NSW | 38/37 | $4,495,854 | $9,842,821 | $14,338,675 |
| 7 | Paul Fletcher | Liberal Party of Australia | NSW | 36/37 | $4,144,781 | $9,601,612 | $13,746,393 |
| 8 | Tanya Plibersek | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 38/37 | $3,801,585 | $9,919,885 | $13,721,470 |
| 9 | Sussan Ley | Liberal Party of Australia | NSW | 36/37 | $3,989,735 | $9,629,083 | $13,618,819 |
| 10 | Penny Wong | Australian Labor Party | SA | 36/37 | $3,637,514 | $9,911,361 | $13,548,874 |
Reported expenses (IPEA) + modelled salary & super (Remuneration Tribunal) over Apr-Jun 2017 – 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.