The Commonwealth already publishes where its money goes.
Its harder than it needs to be to navigate and use it.
Budget papers, tender awards, grants and audited actuals all exist. But they are scattered across separate portals, in formats that don't talk to each other (MOGs ect). Spend Explorer ingests those records and links them into one lineage, so a single dollar can be followed from the budget line that promised it to the payment that spent it.
$785B in Commonwealth outlays for 2024–25 sit within scope. Every figure is sourced from a public record; every transformation between source and screen is logged and reproducible.
Tracing the full chain
Five layers, linked by entity and time.| Layer | Source | What it captures | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Budgeted | Portfolio Budget Statements | What each agency was allocated, program by program, before a cent is spent. | Building |
| Contracted | AusTender (OCDS) | All tenders and contracts awarded since July 2007. | Live |
| Granted | GrantConnect | Grants awarded to organisations, with recipient and purpose. | Planned |
| Actuals | Transparency Portal | What agencies report actually spending against those commitments. | Planned |
| Workforce | APSC · APS Gazette | Headcount and senior movements across the service, in parallel to the money. | Live - last 3 years |
Live layers refresh nightly from the source portals.
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