The Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) publicly reports parliamentarians’ work expenses and travel expenses of their staff under section 12 of the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017. This dataset covers the period from 1 October to 31 December 2023. It was last updated on the data_gov_au platform on 19 March 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze quarterly expenditure patterns for parliamentarians based on the reported work and travel expenses.
- Monitor compliance and transparency in government spending based on the statutory reporting framework.
- Compare expense claims across different parliamentarians or time periods based on the reported categories.
- Support investigative journalism on public fund usage based on the detailed expense disclosures.
Strengths
- Data is published under a CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and redistribution.
- Reporting is mandated by legislation (Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority Act 2017), suggesting a formal collection process.
- Covers a specific, recent quarterly period (Q4 2023), providing temporal specificity.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA)
- Collection Method
- Reported by the Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority under statutory requirements.
- Time Range
- 1 October 2023 to 31 December 2023
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-03-19 03:30:23.867988; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia