This repository contains data about declarations made by donors to Australian political parties for the 2015-16 financial year. (There are separate datasets containing declarations made by parties and associated entities.)
- All people or organisations must make a declaration if they donate more than $13,000 in total to any one branch of a political party.
- This year there were more than 3,000 donations declared.
- This does not include donations made to associated entities, which are organisations that financially support parties.
- The ABC categorised companies into 31 groups based on their main industry activity.
- The resources category includes all mining companies, as well as petrochemical companies involved in gas and oil exploration.
- Advocacy and lobbying organisations were categorised according to their industry of interest, or in the "advocacy/lobbyists" group if they were not associated with any one industry.
- Investment vehicles were categorised as "finance/insurance" where it was possible to identify their main activity and investment companies with a major interest in a particular industry, for example, property, were categorised in the relevant industry.
- Individuals donating under their own names were included in the "individuals" category, although some have interests in specific industries.
- It was not possible to categorise all company donors. For some, there is little information publicly available. These are marked as 'uncategorised'.
- ABC News published a story using this data.
- It was originally scraped from the Australian Electoral Commission's website on February 1, 2017 using a scraper originally written by Nick Evershed.
© Commonwealth of Australia 2017 and Australian Broadcasting Corporation 2017
Both the original data (supplied by the Australian Electoral Commission) and any modifications or additions are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Code is MIT licensed.