The full Budget Papers dataset, free to download. It contains the same figures used throughout the site, covering every agency, jurisdiction and year held, and is available both as published and with Budget Papers’ annotations, in CSV, Excel and JSON. The consultancy figures behind the Consultants page are available the same way, government by government.
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 most convenient version for analysis.
The published numbers as held, with nothing derived: departmental, administered, special-account and total spending, plus staffing, for each agency-year. Suited to users who prefer to classify and clean the data themselves.
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 suited to building applications rather than spreadsheet analysis.
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 and full nameagency_id: stable identifier, as used in linksagency, short_name: full and short nametype: agency type, such as department or GBEportfolio: portfolio identifier and namecategory: Budget Papers’ spending categoryyear: financial yearstage: Budget Estimate, Estimated Actual or Historicaldepartmental_aud: running costsadministered_aud: funds passed through to othersspecial_accounts_aud: funds held in special accountstotal_aud, combined_aud: Commonwealth total or state combined figureasl: Average Staffing Levelself_funded, provenance, source_table, notes: funding flag, source and notesEvery 2025–26 Commonwealth contract counted on the Consultants page, and every amendment to one, one row each, plus the layer Budget Papers adds: the firm, its type, whether it is a major consulting firm, the kind of work and the value each amendment added. The Excel version adds sheets for the firms, the published estimates, notes and sources.
The same contracts and amendments with only the fields AusTender publishes: agency, supplier, value, dates, category, procurement method and the agency’s own consultancy flag. Suited to users who prefer to classify the work themselves.
Everything in one file: the annotated contracts, the firms with their types and yearly totals, the published estimates, the notes and the numbered sources. Best suited to building applications.
Every NSW contract award notice counted on the Consultants page for 2024–25 and 2025–26, one row each: notices in the Consultancies category, and every notice won by a major consulting firm, with variations and the value each added. Contracts of $150,000 or more. The Excel version adds sheets for the firms, the published estimates, notes and sources.
What each Queensland agency paid each consultant in 2024–25 and 2025–26 (so far), with the purpose, from agencies’ consultancy lists; and every contract the major consulting firms were awarded. The two are different measures, kept apart by the measure column. The Excel version adds sheets for the firms, the published estimates, notes and sources.
What each Victorian department and agency spent in 2024–25 on each consultancy with a total approved fee of $10,000 or more, excluding GST, from their Financial Reporting Direction 22 lists, with the fee, the purpose and where each list was published.
What South Australian agencies paid each consultant in 2024–25, and what they paid the major consulting firms as contractors, from the lists they publish as open data.
Every invoice of $25,000 or more the ACT Government paid the major consulting firms in 2024–25 and 2025–26, from its Notifiable Invoices Register. The consultancy contracts behind the page come from the Tenders ACT register, whose terms don’t allow them to be republished, so they aren’t in this file.
One row per contract or amendment published from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026: every contract an agency flagged as a consultancy, and every contract won by a major consulting firm. Values are contract values including GST, not money paid. The file as published keeps AusTender’s own fields only; the Excel file’s Notes sheet explains each measure.
record_type: contract or amendmentcn_id, parent_cn_id: AusTender contract notice numberspublish_date, amendment_publish_date: when each was publishedagency, agency_id, portfolio_id: agency, with Budget Papers identifiersfirm, supplier_name, supplier_abn: firm, and the supplier as each contract names itfirm_type, firm_type_basis: type of firm, and how it was setmajor_firm, big_four: firm flagsconsultancy, work_type: the agency’s flag, and the kind of workcategory, description: UNSPSC category and the agency’s descriptionvalue_aud: contract value as publishedvalue_before_aud, value_counted_aud: an amendment’s previous total, and the change it madestart_date, end_date, procurement_method: term and method