Australian Parliamentarians' Work and Travel Expenses

Current and Former Parliamentarians’ Expenditure 1 July to 30 September 2024 is published by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) under the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017. The dataset reports parliamentarians’ work expenses and travel expenses of their staff. It is part of a public reporting initiative for government spending transparency.

Use Cases

• Tracking government spending based on reported expense categories.
• Analyzing travel patterns of parliamentary staff based on travel expense data.
• Monitoring compliance with parliamentary expense regulations based on legislated reporting requirements.
• Comparing expenditure across different parliamentarians or time periods based on quarterly reporting.

Strengths

• Published under a specific legislative mandate (Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017), indicating an official, structured source.
• Available under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, facilitating reuse and analysis.
• Appears on multiple platform entries, suggesting it is a maintained and referenced public dataset.

Limitations

• Column names and a complete data schema are not provided in the input, limiting understanding of specific variables.
• The input contains conflicting last-updated timestamps (2026-04-16 05:45:38.805627 and 2026-04-16 05:49:37.513553) for the same dataset.
• The number of rows and total dataset size are unknown, making it difficult to assess scale.

Provenance

Source

Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA)

Collection Method

Reported by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority under statutory requirements.

Time Range

1 July to 30 September 2024

Freshness

2026-04-16 05:49:37.513553

Geography

Australia