IPEA Parliamentary Expenses

Data quality and limitations

Amounts are reported parliamentary expenses, invoices and repayments published for the relevant reporting period.
A transaction generally appears in the period when it was paid, which may differ from when travel or other activity occurred.
IPEA may publish adjustments or repayments; APET presents selected totals and rankings rather than every detail in an individual report.

Verify significant findings, explanatory notes and later adjustments on the official IPEA reporting page.

Long-term overview

These charts combine comparable IPEA reporting periods into Australian financial-year trends. Values are nominal reported amounts and are not adjusted for inflation.

Total reported parliamentary expenses by financial year

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Total reported parliamentary expenses by financial year — underlying chart data
financial_year	reported_expenses_dollars
FY2020-21	118569265.55
FY2021-22	123753518.25999999
FY2022-23	149231972.24
FY2023-24	170314855.62
FY2024-25	175002405.23000002
FY2025-26	175145307.12

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Selected parliamentary expense categories over time

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Selected parliamentary expense categories over time — underlying chart data
category	reported_expenses_dollars	financial_year
Employee Travel	19411440.67	FY2020-21
International Travel	31093.800000000003	FY2020-21
Office Administration	40833373.15	FY2020-21
Office Facilities	39822830.61	FY2020-21
Other Car Costs	5087994.39	FY2020-21
Travel Allowance	6428141.49	FY2020-21
Employee Travel	19844847.1	FY2021-22
International Travel	1055463.45	FY2021-22
Office Administration	47703188.61	FY2021-22
Office Facilities	37871823.74	FY2021-22
Other Car Costs	5151715.88	FY2021-22
Travel Allowance	5074745.65	FY2021-22
Employee Travel	34884217.73	FY2022-23
International Travel	2920563.18	FY2022-23
Office Administration	38250205.57	FY2022-23
Office Facilities	44980137.73	FY2022-23
Other Car Costs	6337394.92	FY2022-23
Travel Allowance	7412840.03	FY2022-23
Employee Travel	40308603.48	FY2023-24
International Travel	4618243.98	FY2023-24
Office Administration	51460688.17	FY2023-24
Office Facilities	45923883.18	FY2023-24
Other Car Costs	6698556.4	FY2023-24
Travel Allowance	7082704.53	FY2023-24
Employee Travel	43382593.51	FY2024-25
International Travel	3018627.54	FY2024-25
Office Administration	54887256.06	FY2024-25
Office Facilities	46474350.38	FY2024-25
Other Car Costs	7107645.94	FY2024-25
Travel Allowance	6538108.08	FY2024-25
Employee Travel	47722324.61	FY2025-26
International Travel	4167960.9	FY2025-26
Office Administration	44677370.76	FY2025-26
Office Facilities	48692868.07	FY2025-26
Other Car Costs	7348384.6	FY2025-26
Travel Allowance	7616502.12	FY2025-26

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Office and travel-related expenses over time

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Office and travel-related expenses over time — underlying chart data
financial_year	group	reported_expenses_dollars
FY2020-21	Office and administration	82155555.56
FY2020-21	Travel-related	31214460.270000003
FY2021-22	Office and administration	87037296.87
FY2021-22	Travel-related	31535311.380000003
FY2022-23	Office and administration	84784476.14
FY2022-23	Travel-related	52796336.589999996
FY2023-24	Office and administration	98682468.62
FY2023-24	Travel-related	59665580.739999995
FY2024-25	Office and administration	102092496.82000001
FY2024-25	Travel-related	61230390.96
FY2025-26	Office and administration	94063602.53
FY2025-26	Travel-related	68202515.49

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IPEA Parliamentary Expenses

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Long-term overview

Annual summaries

Quarterly summaries

FY2025-26

FY2024-25

FY2023-24

FY2022-23

FY2021-22

FY2020-21

FY2019-20