| 1 |
$125.0B |
Suburban Rail Loop: $34.5B to $216B — The Costliest Infrastructure Promise in Australian History
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PENDING |
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Major Transport Infrastructure Authority |
2026 |
| 2 |
$59.7B |
DVA military compensation liability surged $59.7B in a single year — up 65%
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PENDING |
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Department of Veterans' Affairs |
2026 |
| 3 |
$27.5B |
NBN Co $27.5B cost blowout — 93% over original $29.5B estimate
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PENDING |
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NBN Co |
2026 |
| 4 |
$23.8B |
11 of 14 Home Affairs SES officers skipped conflict of interest declarations on $23.8B contract portfolio
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PENDING |
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Department of Home Affairs |
2026 |
| 5 |
$19.0B |
Victorian Big Build: West Gate Tunnel + Metro Tunnel + North East Link — $19B in Combined Overruns
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PENDING |
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Major Transport Infrastructure Authority |
2026 |
| 6 |
$13.6B |
Cross River Rail: $13.6 Billion Blowout — 253% Over Budget
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PENDING |
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Cross River Rail Delivery Authority / Department of Transport and Main Roads |
2026 |
| 7 |
$9.0B |
Sydney Metro City & Southwest: $9 Billion Blowout
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PENDING |
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Sydney Metro / Transport for NSW |
2026 |
| 8 |
$8.4B |
BAE Systems Donated $288K to Labor and Liberal — Landed $8.37B in Defence Contracts, Including a $1.89B Direct-Source Frigate Deal Referred to the Anti-Corruption Commission
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PENDING |
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Department of Defence |
2026 |
| 9 |
$7.8B |
$7.8 billion of your taxes paid to consultants who left nothing behind
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INVESTIGATED |
Katy Gallagher |
Australian Public Service Commission |
2026 |
| 10 |
$7.1B |
Serco Donated $115K to Labor and Liberal — Collected $7.13B Running Immigration Detention for 15 Years, Amid Allegations of Violence, Neglect, and Self-Harm
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PENDING |
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Department of Home Affairs |
2026 |
| 11 |
$7.1B |
Brisbane 2032 Olympics: Total Budget Unconfirmed — QAO Warned of Blowout Risk
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PENDING |
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Brisbane 2032 Organising Committee / Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority |
2026 |
| 12 |
$6.8B |
NSW Education: $6.8 Billion in Restatements and Delegation Breaches
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PENDING |
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NSW Department of Education / TAFE NSW |
2026 |
| 13 |
$6.0B |
Up to $6 billion stolen from disabled Australians every year — and the agency admits it had 'no real control' until 2024
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ACTIVE |
Amanda Rishworth |
National Disability Insurance Agency / Services Australia |
2026 |
| 14 |
$5.5B |
Australia's biggest defence projects blew out by $5.5 billion — just from exchange rate movements
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PENDING |
Richard Marles |
Department of Defence |
2026 |
| 15 |
$5.1B |
NSW State Deficit: $5.1 Billion Operating Loss, $165B in Debt
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PENDING |
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NSW Treasury |
2026 |
| 16 |
$5.0B |
Australia spends $5 billion a year on Big Four consultants — and the government rejected every major reform to fix conflicts of interest
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PENDING |
Katy Gallagher |
Multiple (whole-of-government) |
2026 |
| 17 |
$5.0B |
$5 billion in wrong pension payments — 3 years, every quarter a miss
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ACTIVE |
Bill Shorten |
Services Australia |
2026 |
| 18 |
$4.4B |
Boeing Donated $335K to Labor and Liberal — Collected $4.43B in Defence Contracts, Every Single One Through Direct Sourcing or Limited Tender
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PENDING |
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Department of Defence |
2026 |
| 19 |
$3.8B |
Brisbane 2032 Victoria Park Stadium: $3.785 Billion Olympics Venue
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PENDING |
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Queensland Government / Games Independent Infrastructure and Coordination Authority |
2026 |
| 20 |
$3.5B |
Sydney Metro Northwest Cost Blowout: $3.5B Over Budget
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PENDING |
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Transport for NSW |
2026 |
| 21 |
$3.3B |
$3.3 billion in dodgy NDIS claims slipped through because nobody was watching
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INVESTIGATED |
Murray Watt |
National Disability Insurance Agency |
2026 |
| 22 |
$3.1B |
Queensland Grants: $3.1 Billion With Weak Controls, 31% of Fixes Still Undone
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PENDING |
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All Queensland Departments / Queensland Reconstruction Authority |
2026 |
| 23 |
$3.1B |
Logan & Gold Coast Faster Rail: $3.1 Billion Blowout
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PENDING |
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Department of Transport and Main Roads |
2026 |
| 24 |
$3.1B |
CIMIC Donated $540K to Labor, Liberal and Nationals — Collected $3.1B in Government Construction, 41% Without Open Tender
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INVESTIGATED |
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Department of Defence / Infrastructure Australia |
2026 |
| 25 |
$2.7B |
$2.7 billion gap: Australia's navy ships suffering 'catastrophic failures'
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ACTIVE |
Richard Marles |
Department of Defence (Royal Australian Navy) |
2026 |
| 26 |
$2.4B |
NBN Co went 3 years without reporting to shareholders — collected $2.4B in equity during blackout
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PENDING |
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NBN Co |
2026 |
| 27 |
$2.4B |
Queensland Train Manufacturing Program: $2.4 Billion Blowout Hidden From Media
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PENDING |
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Department of Transport and Main Roads |
2026 |
| 28 |
$2.2B |
Western Sydney Airport Rail: $2.2 Billion Dispute, Delayed to 2027
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PENDING |
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Sydney Metro / Transport for NSW |
2026 |
| 29 |
$2.2B |
Thales Australia Donated $195K to Labor and Liberal — Landed $2.2B in Defence Contracts Through Restricted Tender
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PENDING |
Richard Marles |
Department of Defence |
2026 |
| 30 |
$2.1B |
$2.1 billion in government contracts handed out without competition — no bids, no questions
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PENDING |
Katy Gallagher |
Department of Finance |
2026 |
| 31 |
$2.0B |
$2 billion in health grants handed out as 'captain's picks' — no applications, no merit, just ministerial discretion
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PENDING |
Mark Butler |
Department of Health and Aged Care |
2026 |
| 32 |
$1.9B |
DEWR's $1.9B Workforce Australia — 40% of placements last under 13 weeks, no outcome baseline
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PENDING |
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Department of Employment and Workplace Relations |
2026 |
| 33 |
$1.8B |
Defence blew $1.8 billion over budget on IT projects — and they still don't work properly
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PENDING |
Richard Marles |
Department of Defence |
2026 |
| 34 |
$1.8B |
WestConnex Motorway: $5.3B Government Subsidy for a Tollway Nobody Owns Anymore
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PENDING |
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NSW Department of Transport |
2026 |
| 35 |
$1.5B |
$1.5 billion in medication claims stuck unprocessed — while pharmacists wait and patients are delayed
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PENDING |
Mark Butler |
Services Australia / Department of Health and Aged Care |
2026 |
| 36 |
$1.3B |
Queensland Councils: $1.34 Billion in "Found Assets" — Roads That Didn't Exist on Paper
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PENDING |
— |
All 77 Queensland Councils |
2026 |
| 37 |
$1.2B |
Ministers overruled their own experts to hand $1.2 billion to whoever they wanted
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PENDING |
Katy Gallagher |
Department of Infrastructure |
2026 |
| 38 |
$1.2B |
A $1.2 billion no-bid munitions deal — and the defence official who handed it out was accepting champagne from the winner
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PENDING |
Richard Marles |
Department of Defence (Guided Weapons & Explosive Ordnance) |
2026 |
| 39 |
$1.0B |
Sydney CBD & South East Light Rail: $1 Billion Blowout
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PENDING |
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Transport for NSW |
2026 |
| 40 |
$1.0B |
DTA: all 4 sampled procurements had wrong AusTender data; $1B IBM arrangement under AFP fraud investigation
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PENDING |
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Digital Transformation Agency |
2026 |
| 41 |
$948.0M |
Paladin Donated $70K to Labor and Liberal — A Company Registered to a Beach Shack Collected $948M in Sole-Source Manus Island Contracts Without Ever Facing Competition
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PENDING |
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Department of Home Affairs |
2026 |
| 42 |
$890.0M |
The aged care regulator spent $890 million and can't show it made a single nursing home safer
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PENDING |
Anika Wells |
Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission |
2026 |
| 43 |
$697.4M |
PwC Donated $270K to Labor and Liberal — Then Bagged $700M in Advisory Contracts, Including Confidential Tax Reform Work
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PENDING |
Katy Gallagher |
Department of Finance / Treasury / Multiple Agencies |
2026 |
| 44 |
$683.2M |
Deloitte Donated $270K to Labor and Liberal — Bagged $683M in Consulting Contracts Across 4 Agencies, Every One Through Direct Sourcing or Limited Tender
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PENDING |
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Multiple agencies |
2026 |
| 45 |
$550.0M |
$550M remote Indigenous housing program delivered only 19% of promised homes
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PENDING |
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National Indigenous Australians Agency |
2026 |
| 46 |
$550.0M |
$550 million spent renovating the War Memorial — without ministers even being told about the contracts
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PENDING |
Tony Burke |
Australian War Memorial |
2026 |
| 47 |
$500.0M |
NSW Social Housing: 33-Day Fill Times, 9,280 Applications Backlogged
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PENDING |
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Homes NSW / Department of Communities and Justice |
2026 |
| 48 |
$500.0M |
AGD delayed child sexual abuse survivor services for 5 years after Royal Commission
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PENDING |
— |
Attorney-General's Department |
2026 |
| 49 |
$420.0M |
Victorian DHHS Pandemic Consulting: $1.1B to Big Four Firms During COVID — No Skills Transfer
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PENDING |
— |
Department of Health |
2026 |
| 50 |
$420.0M |
Service NSW Digital Transformation Outsourcing: $2.1B in Untendered IT Contracts
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PENDING |
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Service NSW |
2026 |