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.
$1,330,244,477
Reported work expenses · IPEA · Since Q2 2017 · Apr-Jun 2017 – Apr–Jun 2026
≈ $48.20 per Australian over this period
Modelled salary & super would add $840,597,380 — .
Excludes electorate-office staff salaries (MOPS Act) and office accommodation — typically hundreds of thousands to over $1M per office per year.
Parliamentarians
438
Median expenses
$2,458,369
Avg expenses
$3,037,088
By chamber (expenses)
- House · 299$970,806,98273.0% of total
- Senate · 139$359,437,49427.0% of total
By party · top 6 (expenses)
- Australian Labor Party · 184$605,968,53645.6% of total
- Liberal Party of Australia · 150$457,491,75834.4% of total
- National Party of Australia · 33$118,490,5898.9% of total
- Independent · 37$79,785,7176.0% of total
- Australian Greens · 23$50,614,5753.8% of total
- Pauline Hanson's One Nation · 7$17,839,8861.3% of total
By state / territory (expenses)
- NSW · 108$388,692,67629.2% of total
- VIC · 94$279,779,98221.0% of total
- QLD · 80$251,268,78618.9% of total
- WA · 52$169,054,90812.7% of total
- SA · 44$120,079,6709.0% of total
- TAS · 31$66,870,7165.0% of total
- NT · 9$26,854,9842.0% of total
- ACT · 7$18,693,8791.4% of total
- — · 11$7,616,1140.6% of total
- SU · 2$1,332,7620.1% of total
Highest work expenses · since q2 2017
Full register →| # | Name | Party | State | Qtrs | Expenses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anthony Albanese | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 36/37 | $25,601,820 |
| 2 | Peter Dutton | Liberal Party of Australia | QLD | 37/37 | $14,379,169 |
| 3 | Scott Morrison | Liberal Party of Australia | NSW | 37/37 | $13,210,123 |
| 4 | David Littleproud | National Party of Australia | QLD | 38/37 | $12,562,735 |
| 5 | Penny Wong | Australian Labor Party | SA | 36/37 | $11,295,993 |
| 6 | Sussan Ley | Liberal Party of Australia | NSW | 38/37 | $11,202,179 |
| 7 | Bill Shorten | Australian Labor Party | VIC | 36/37 | $11,018,499 |
| 8 | Tanya Plibersek | Australian Labor Party | NSW | 37/37 | $10,549,407 |
| 9 | Don Farrell | Australian Labor Party | SA | 38/37 | $9,529,921 |
| 10 | Richard Marles | Australian Labor Party | VIC | 38/37 | $9,502,764 |
Work expenses as reported by IPEA 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.