Australian Parliamentarian and Staff Expenses for Q2 2023

From 1 April to 30 June 2023, this dataset reports work and travel expenses for Australian parliamentarians and their staff, as mandated by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017. It is published by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) to support public accountability and transparency in government spending. The data is provided in CSV format under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Tracking individual parliamentarian expenditure based on reported work and travel expenses.
• Analyzing quarterly spending patterns for parliamentary staff travel.
• Monitoring compliance with public accountability legislation based on the IPEA Act 2017 mandate.
• Comparing expense categories across different parliamentary offices or time periods.

Strengths

• Has a clear legal mandate for publication under the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse.
• Published by the authoritative source, the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA).

Limitations

• Column names and a precise row count are not provided, limiting understanding of the data's granularity and scale.
• The dataset's temporal coverage is limited to a single quarter (Q2 2023), providing a snapshot rather than a time series.
• Metadata on data.gov.au is sparse, with repeated, identical descriptions and no column schema.

Provenance

Source

Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA)

Collection Method

Mandatory public reporting under section 12 of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017.

Time Range

1 April 2023 to 30 June 2023

Freshness

Last updated on 2026-04-16 according to data.gov.au.

Geography

Australia