Plain Politics

What they have declared

Every member and senator must record their shareholdings, property, directorships, liabilities, gifts and sponsored travel on the register for their chamber. This is both registers, 48th Parliament — 147 members read from their statements and 76senators from the Senate’s.

Statements
223
of 226 members and senators
Members declare property
140
of 150, or their family
Senators declare travel
62
of 76
Alterations lodged
1234
across both chambers

What members declare

House members declaring something under each heading of the form. A count of members, not of items — the form sets no convention for how many holdings go on a line, so counting items would measure how people fill in a form rather than what they hold.

DeclaredThe memberSpouseAny
Shareholdings
626586
Trusts and nominee companies
504552
Real estate
132108140
Directorships
404258
Partnerships
91212
Liabilities
122101126
Bonds and debentures
201323
Savings and investment accounts
140115140
Other assets over $7,500
10189111
Other sources of income
6991105
Gifts
932793
Sponsored travel or hospitality
602660
Memberships
11964121
Other interests
202539

What senators declare

Senators declaring something under each category of the Senate register. The categories are the Senate’s own, and the register records no split between a senator and their family, so this counts senators with anything declared — as lodged or added since.

DeclaredInterestsSenators
Real estate
15468
Shareholdings
9030
Trusts and nominee companies
5122
Directorships
3019
Partnerships
44
Liabilities
17566
Bonds and debentures
1310
Savings and investment accounts
18174
Other assets over $7,500
12064
Other sources of income
3531
Gifts
26961
Sponsored travel or hospitality
31362
Office holder of, or donor to, an organisation
28865
Other interests
16035

Statements that cannot be read by machine

3 of 151 statements are published as scanned images rather than as text. They are on the register and can be read by a person, but nothing on this page is extracted from them.

  • Anthony Albanese · Grayndler

    The statement is a scanned image rather than a form, so its sections cannot be read. Read the original.

  • Luke Gosling · Solomon

    The statement is a scan with no text layer at all, so nothing can be read from it by machine. Read the original.

  • Bob Katter · Kennedy

    The statement is a photocopy that has been through OCR, and the recovered text is unreliable. Read the original.

Recently altered

When a member or senator acquires or disposes of a registrable interest — often a gift or a sponsored trip — they record it. These are the most recent across both chambers, by the date of the change.

WhoWhat changedDate
James Paterson
Victoria · Senator
Return flights and accommodation in Sydney to deliver the 2026 Commencement Address to the Ramsay Postgraduate Scholars, 23-24 July, courtesy Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation26 July 2026
David Pocock
Australian Capital Territory · Senator
Sold house in Canberra, ACT23 July 2026
David Pocock
Australian Capital Territory · Senator
Advance from Penguin Random House Australia for book contract23 July 2026
David Pocock
Australian Capital Territory · Senator
4x pairs of FOM shoes from Freedom of Movement South Africa (RRP value of $800)23 July 2026
Darren Chester
Gippsland
Notification lodged — see their page21 July 2026
Jason Clare
Blaxland
Notification lodged — see their page21 July 2026
Barnaby Joyce
New England
Notification lodged — see their page21 July 2026
James Paterson
Victoria · Senator
Partial contribution towards travel costs to attend the Australian American Leadership Dialogue and visit the United States, 12-19 July, courtesy Mr Charles Kiefel20 July 2026
Gordon Reid
Robertson
Notification lodged — see their page18 July 2026
Carol Berry
Whitlam
Notification lodged — see their page16 July 2026
Jason Clare
Blaxland
Notification lodged — see their page16 July 2026
Andrew Wallace
Fisher
Notification lodged — see their page16 July 2026
Kara Cook
Bonner
Notification lodged — see their page15 July 2026
Jason Clare
Blaxland
Notification lodged — see their page14 July 2026
Matt Thistlethwaite
Kingsford Smith
Notification lodged — see their page14 July 2026

Everyone

Each declaration is on that member or senator’s own page, alongside their voting record and expenses.

House of Representatives

Senate

How to read this

  • The House and Senate keep separate registers. This is the House register; senators declare through the Senate's own register, which is published here too but records no member / spouse / dependent-children split.
  • A statement is published as lodged, followed by each notification of alteration. The two are shown separately and never merged: applying a deletion means matching its wording back to an item in the original, and a wrong match would misstate what a member declared.
  • The register records the nature of an interest, not its value. There are no amounts to publish for shareholdings, liabilities or accounts, because members are not asked for them.
  • Interests of a spouse and of dependent children are declared to the extent the member is aware of them. Where a member records that a spouse does not share that information, that is what the form says.
  • Nothing here is checked against any other source. It is what the member declared.
  • The Senate register records no member / spouse / dependent-children split. Where the distinction matters a senator writes it into their own answer, and that is published as written; nothing here separates a senator's interest from their family's beyond what the senator wrote.
  • A statement's interests are as lodged; its alterations are the additions and deletions since, each dated. The two are shown separately and never merged — matching a deletion back to the interest it removes would risk misstating the record.
  • A register keeps a statement after its member leaves, so it can hold more statements than there are seats. Sussan Ley is a former member and is not counted here.

Sources

Register of Members' Interests, 48th Parliament and the Register of Senators' Interests, 48th Parliament, Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 23 July 2026. Sourced from the Parliament of Australia. Parliamentary material is reproduced under the terms on which it is published by the Parliament. Each member and senator’s page links to the register their declaration comes from.