BudgetPapers
Data & downloads

CSV · Excel · JSON

Take the data
and run with it.

Everything behind Budget Papers, free to download. The same figures the site runs on — every agency, every jurisdiction, every year we hold — offered both as the published numbers and as our annotated version, in whichever format suits your tool.


Collected by hand from sources that don’t always agree. Definitions, agency boundaries and year labels differ across jurisdictions, and nothing is extrapolated — the How Budgets Work page explains the caveats in full.
Annotated dataset

Every agency-year, flattened to one row, plus the editorial layer Budget Papers adds: spending category, agency type, provenance and the source table each figure traces back to. The Excel version also carries a Notes sheet explaining the budget concepts behind the figures. The friendliest version for analysis.

557 rows · 22 columns
Raw figures

The published numbers as held, with nothing derived: departmental, administered, special-account and total spending, plus staffing, for each agency-year. Start here if you’d rather classify and clean the data your own way.

557 rows · 11 columns
Full structured dataset

The full structured dataset: jurisdictions, portfolios, agencies, per-year budgets and metadata, nested as the app reads them, with website-only fields stripped out. Best if you’re building something rather than opening a spreadsheet.

JSON · nested · ~262 KB

One row per agency-year; these are the columns you’ll find across the top. The raw file keeps the figures and identifiers and drops the editorial ones (category, provenance, source, notes). The annotated Excel file adds a Notes sheet explaining the budget concepts behind the figures.

jurisdiction — code & full name
agency_id — stable key (deep-link)
agency / short_name
type — department, GBE, etc.
portfolio — id & name
category — our spending grouping
year — financial year
stage — estimate / actual / historical
departmental_aud — running costs
administered_aud — pass-through
special_accounts_aud — earmarked
total_aud / combined_aud
asl — average staffing level
self_funded, provenance, source_table, notes
  1. Australian Government, Budget Paper No. 4 — Agency Resourcing — the source for every Commonwealth figure, read column-by-column.
  2. New South Wales Government, NSW Budget Papers
  3. Victorian Government, Victorian Budget Papers
  4. Queensland Government, Queensland Budget Papers
  5. Government of Western Australia, WA State Budget
  6. Government of South Australia, South Australian Budget
  7. Tasmanian Government, Tasmanian Budget Papers
  8. ACT Government, ACT Budget Papers
  9. Northern Territory Government, Northern Territory Budget Papers
  10. Australian Public Service Commission, APS Employment Data — classification and workforce breakdowns.