Australian Public Expense Tracker is an independent project that visualises publicly available Australian government expenditure data using official datasets.
The goal of the project is to improve accessibility of public expenditure information through clear visualisations and summaries generated from official government data.
The website does not make judgments about whether spending is appropriate or inappropriate. It focuses on presenting official data in a clear, neutral, and data-driven format so that visitors can draw their own conclusions.
The project currently includes annual and quarterly visualisations of Australian parliamentary expenditure and will continue to expand to additional public expenditure datasets over time.
Official datasets are processed using custom Python scripts that transform raw government data into charts and summaries designed to make expenditure information easier to explore and understand.
The project emphasises consistency, transparency, and reproducibility by generating visualisations directly from publicly available source data.
All information displayed on this website is derived from publicly available government data sources. While care is taken to present the data accurately, visitors should refer to the original source publications for authoritative information.
Data is updated periodically as new source datasets become available.
Last updated: June 2026
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