Outcome procurement · since 1998
Australia's leading* outcome procurement platform. Last financial year, businesses, unions and people paid the five main parties . Every dollar is listed on a free public register. Almost nobody reads it.
*We made that up. We are not a business. Everything else on this page comes from public returns lodged with the Australian Electoral Commission.
| Access to decision-makers (both sides) | POA |
| Fundraising dinner, table of ten | POA |
| Name-tag swap via foundation | POA |
| Outcome | Not itemised |
| Total disclosed | Next February |
Source: AEC Transparency Register, Detailed Receipts, FY . Public funding and party-to-party transfers left out.
Packages
Each package is a joke. Underneath each one is the real rule it's joking about.
From $17,299
Givers must disclose gifts above the threshold: $17,300 for 2025-26 ($16,900 in 2024-25). Gifts from the same giver to the same party are added up over the year, so splitting one big gift into small ones doesn't work.
From 1 January 2027 the line drops to $5,000. AEC fact sheet ↗
Price on application
Not all money paid to parties is filed as a "donation". In FY , of what parties reported from private sources was labelled something else, mostly "Other Receipt". That can include event tickets, memberships, loans, rent and investment income.
Two for the price of two
Giving to more than one party is legal and common. In FY , givers paid both Labor and the Coalition. One bank reported to Labor and to the Coalition. The register lists it all. It doesn't say why.
Premium
Associated entities (party fundraising companies, clubs and investment vehicles) give to parties under their own name. Where their money came from only shows up in their own return, which you have to look up separately.
From 2027, donations from a party's "nominated entity" to that party don't count toward the new donation cap. Parliamentary Library ↗
Client success stories
Our "clients" are real payers with their names changed a little. Their numbers are exactly as filed with the AEC. None of them is our client, because nobody is.
Satire. Names changed a little; numbers real. These organisations are not our clients (nobody is). Nothing here suggests any of them did anything unlawful or got anything in return, and no inquiry has found that they did. The plain facts, with real names →
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Enter your budget. We'll tell you exactly what you get back. (Spoiler: nobody can.)
Peace of mind
Our competitive advantage isn't secrecy. Everything is public. It's that almost nobody looks.
Peak beach season. The 2024-25 returns went live on 2 February 2026, seven months after that financial year ended.
Source: AEC media releaseOne spreadsheet holds every disclosed receipt since . It has never once trended.
Source: AEC Detailed Receipts downloadThe register says which financial year money moved, not which day. Was it the week before a big decision? Delightfully unclear.
Real-time reporting during elections arrives in 2027.Who downloads a spreadsheet for fun? (Apart from the one person who built this page.)
Get it at transparency.aec.gov.auAct now
New federal funding and disclosure laws start on 1 January 2027. Here's what changes, and how our marketing department would spin it.
Gifts over $5,000 (in total, per giver, per recipient, per calendar year) must be disclosed.
Spin: "Under the Radar™ now comes in fun size."
About $50,000 per giver per recipient per year. Each registered party branch counts separately, so one party can receive up to nine caps from one giver.
Spin: "Introducing Nine Caps™."
During election periods, gifts must be disclosed as soon as within 24 hours.
Spin: "Please give before the election is called."
A party's nominated entity can give to that party without it counting toward the cap.
Spin: "The Funnel™ just got a VIP lane."
Sources: AEC: Explaining the changes · Parliamentary Library: Electoral finance (2025-26). Caps are indexed; check the AEC for current amounts.
Testimonials
"I gave to both sides. Now whoever wins remembers my birthday."
— Rex Hedge, CEO, Both Ways Holdings Pty Ltd
"Under the threshold, nobody knows my name. Over it, nobody reads it. Win-win."
— A. Nonymous, private citizen
"I went into a foundation as Bob. I came out as a Foundation."
— A fictional one-dollar coin
All testimonials are fictional. These people, companies and coins don't exist.
Case files
Real names only appear on a separate page, kept apart from the satire.
FAQ
Mostly, yes. That's what makes it funny.
Giving money to political parties is legal in Australia, within disclosure rules. Some states have their own bans and caps (for example, on property developers in NSW). This site is about the federal register.
We couldn't possibly say. Neither can anyone, from the public data alone. That's our whole business model.
The register shows who paid whom and how much. It doesn't show meetings, favours, or what anyone got back, and nothing on this page claims that any donation bought anything.
Try Under the Radar™ or The Funnel™. Or simply rely on nobody reading the spreadsheet.
Gifts over the threshold must be disclosed by both giver and recipient. Money that passes through an associated entity appears under that entity's name on the party's return; the original sources appear in the entity's own return.
No. It's a parody. There is nothing to buy, and no one to call.
This page was made by the people behind Follow the Money, a free site that turns AEC returns into something you can read and check line by line.