| 1 |
$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 |
| 2 |
$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 |
| 3 |
$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 |
| 4 |
$5.0B |
$5 billion in wrong pension payments — 3 years, every quarter a miss
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ACTIVE |
Bill Shorten |
Services Australia |
2026 |
| 5 |
$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 |
| 6 |
$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 |
| 7 |
$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 |
| 8 |
$2.7B |
$2.7 billion gap: Australia's navy ships suffering 'catastrophic failures'
|
ACTIVE |
Richard Marles |
Department of Defence (Royal Australian Navy) |
2026 |
| 9 |
$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 |
| 10 |
$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 |
| 11 |
$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 |
| 12 |
$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 |
| 13 |
$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 |
| 14 |
$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 |
| 15 |
$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 |
| 16 |
$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 |
| 17 |
$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 |
| 18 |
$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 |
| 19 |
$290.0M |
$719M in community grants flowed to coalition marginal seats at more than double the rate of safe seats
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PENDING |
Catherine King |
Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications |
2026 |
| 20 |
$129.6M |
$129.6 million in political donations with zero paper trail — that's 31% of everything the major parties raised
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PENDING |
Don Farrell |
Australian Electoral Commission / Political Parties |
2026 |
| 21 |
$80.6M |
Three major charities quietly took 57% of a $402M fund meant for small Indigenous community organisations
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PENDING |
Linda Burney |
Department of Social Services |
2026 |
| 22 |
$75.5M |
Services Australia's IT modernisation with Accenture blew $75 million over budget
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PENDING |
Bill Shorten |
Services Australia |
2026 |
| 23 |
$50.0M |
DFAT broke procurement rules — again — after ANAO caught them doing the same thing in a previous audit
|
PENDING |
Penny Wong |
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Australian Passport Office) |
2026 |
| 24 |
$30.0M |
AEC handed Accenture $30M — no competition, no tender, for the system that regulates political donations
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PENDING |
Don Farrell |
Australian Electoral Commission |
2026 |
| 25 |
$29.8M |
The Australian National University got $175M from a research grants program that chose recipients without competitive bids
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PENDING |
Jason Clare |
Department of Education, Skills and Employment |
2026 |
| 26 |
$24.3M |
Home Affairs' IT contractor bill blew up 135% — $18 million became $42 million, no rebid
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PENDING |
Clare O'Neil |
Department of Home Affairs |
2026 |
| 27 |
$22.2M |
PricewaterhouseCoopers charged Defence $54 million for HR consulting — $22 million more than agreed, no rebid
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PENDING |
Richard Marles |
Department of Defence |
2026 |
| 28 |
$22.0M |
The Bureau of Meteorology's AWS migration cost $22 million more than planned — and nobody shopped around
|
PENDING |
Tanya Plibersek |
Bureau of Meteorology |
2026 |
| 29 |
$12.7M |
Your submarine billions funded McKinsey — without a single competing bid
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PENDING |
Pat Conroy |
Australian Submarine Agency |
2026 |
| 30 |
$7.9M |
Deloitte built a public service analytics tool for $12.7 million — three times the budget, zero competition
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PENDING |
Katy Gallagher |
Australian Public Service Commission |
2026 |
| 31 |
$6.2M |
Mining companies gave $6M to politicians — then lobbied against climate policy. The donations worked.
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PENDING |
Chris Bowen |
Minerals Council of Australia / Coal Australia → Liberal Party / LNP |
2026 |
| 32 |
$4.7M |
Ernst & Young charged double to evaluate an Indigenous health program — hired directly, no competition
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PENDING |
Mark Butler |
Department of Health and Aged Care |
2026 |