Australian Government Accountability

Every dollar Australian governments waste.
Named, sourced, impossible to ignore.

Plain enough for every Australian to share, forensic enough to hold politicians to account — every finding names who was on watch and links to the original record.

$23.6B
Identified
18
Findings
24
Ministers named
15
Agencies
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01
Discover

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450K+ contracts, 10K+ grants, every ANAO audit finding ingested and structured weekly. Anomaly detectors run on every dollar.

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02
Measure

Quantify every dollar

Every finding is quantified to the dollar — cross-referenced against benchmarks, linked to the original record. No speculation.

$23.6B quantified
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Amplify

Name who was on watch

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Active investigations

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$7.8B

$7.8 billion of your taxes paid to consultants who left nothing behind

The government spent $21.4 billion on consultants and contractors in a single year — and $7.8 billion of it built no lasting capability. 15 ...

Australian Public Service Commission
Active investigation
$3.3B

$3.3 billion in dodgy NDIS claims slipped through because nobody was watching

The NDIS paid out against an estimated $3.4 billion in suspicious claims — and caught just $142 million of it. One in eight high-risk paymen...

National Disability Insurance Agency
Active investigation
$3.1B

CIMIC Donated $540K to Labor, Liberal and Nationals — Collected $3.1B in Government Construction, 41% Without Open Tender

AEC Annual Returns show CIMIC Group (parent of CPB Contractors) donated $539,800 to all three major parties between 2018–19 and 2022–23. Aus...

Department of Defence / Infrastructure Australia
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The Full Reckoning

3 active investigations. 15 completed. 0 in the queue.

Rank Finding Amount Status
1 $7.8 billion of your taxes paid to consultants who left nothing behind $7.8B Active
2 $3.3 billion in dodgy NDIS claims slipped through because nobody was watching $3.3B Active
3 CIMIC Donated $540K to Labor, Liberal and Nationals — Collected $3.1B in Government Construction, 41% Without Open Tender $3.1B Active
4 Thales Australia Donated $195K to Labor and Liberal — Landed $2.2B in Defence Contracts Through Restricted Tender $2.2B Investigated
5 $2.1 billion in government contracts handed out without competition — no bids, no questions $2.1B Investigated
6 Defence blew $1.8 billion over budget on IT projects — and they still don't work properly $1.8B Investigated
7 Ministers overruled their own experts to hand $1.2 billion to whoever they wanted $1.2B Investigated
8 The aged care regulator spent $890 million and can't show it made a single nursing home safer $890.0M Investigated
9 PwC Donated $270K to Labor and Liberal — Then Bagged $700M in Advisory Contracts, Including Confidential Tax Reform Work $697.4M Investigated
10 $719M in community grants flowed to coalition marginal seats at more than double the rate of safe seats $290.0M Investigated
11 Three major charities quietly took 57% of a $402M fund meant for small Indigenous community organisations $80.6M Investigated
12 Services Australia's IT modernisation with Accenture blew $75 million over budget $75.5M Investigated
13 The Australian National University got $175M from a research grants program that chose recipients without competitive bids $29.8M Investigated
14 Home Affairs' IT contractor bill blew up 135% — $18 million became $42 million, no rebid $24.3M Investigated
15 PricewaterhouseCoopers charged Defence $54 million for HR consulting — $22 million more than agreed, no rebid $22.2M Investigated
16 The Bureau of Meteorology's AWS migration cost $22 million more than planned — and nobody shopped around $22.0M Investigated
17 Deloitte built a public service analytics tool for $12.7 million — three times the budget, zero competition $7.9M Investigated
18 Ernst & Young charged double to evaluate an Indigenous health program — hired directly, no competition $4.7M Investigated
$23.6B total waste identified — and counting $23.6B