Finance Finance portfolio
Department of Finance
Advises on the Budget and manages government spending, procurement, property and financial accountability.
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Latest releases
All 94 releases from Finance, with filters-
Finance Released
Use of the Bullsbrook Centre for National Resilience (Internal Review of FOI 25-26/209)
This release comprises email correspondence between Department of Finance officers and Western Australian Department of Justice and Office of Major Infrastructure Delivery staff, from December 2025 to April 2026, about the Centre for National Resilience (CNR) in Bullsbrook…
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Correspondence from the NSW Rifle Association about shooting days at ANZAC Rifle Range and Annual Shooting Program for the 2026 calendar year
The release comprises correspondence and shooting-calendar records for the ANZAC Rifle Range in Malabar, NSW, covering 2025 and 2026. Most items are NSW Rifle Association emails announcing weekly general shooting days, cancellations, a police night shoot on 6 March 2025, the…
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Finance Released
Formal meeting minutes, letters and briefing about the KPMG whistleblower matter
The release comprises meeting notes, minutes, correspondence, a ministerial submission and media clippings concerning KPMG Australia, a supplier on the Multi-Agency Services (MAS) Panel. The records cover Finance meetings with KPMG on 19 May, 5 June and 11 June 2026, and letters…
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Finance Released
Response to Senate question about Act of Grace applications relating to the Afghanistan Inquiry
This FOI release contains a Senate question on notice (Q231) asked by Senator David Shoebridge on 26 August 2025, with a draft response from the Department of Finance. The question sought a breakdown of applications to the Afghanistan Inquiry Compensation Scheme, including…
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Finance Released
Printing and Communications services for One Nation Senators
This release from the Department of Finance is a list of 91 invoice payments made between 1 July 2025 and 20 March 2026 for Senators Pauline Hanson, Malcolm Roberts, Warwick Stacey and Sean Bell, filtered to the 'Office Services' category and excluding shared parliamentary…
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Finance Released
Salary-setting process
This FOI release comprises internal Department of Finance emails from March to May 2026 and draft forms concerning salary setting and accelerated pay point advancement for staff, including SES-level approvals. In late March 2026, the First Assistant Secretary, Corporate…
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Finance Released
Data on workplace absences
This FOI release is a single data table recording the daily number of workplace absences of Department of Finance staff across 15 days, from 22 June to 6 July 2026. Absences are broken down by leave category: annual leave, carers leave, leave with pay or TOIL, long service…
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Finance Released
Invoices for services to parliamentarians
This FOI release from the Department of Finance (reference FOI 25-26/232) consists of a single spreadsheet listing 14 invoices paid between 1 January and 1 June 2026 for the office of Member for New England, Barnaby Joyce. The list is limited to "Office Services" expenses of…
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Finance Released
List of AI Use Case
This FOI release is a single register, current as at 31 May 2026, listing 34 active artificial intelligence use cases within the Department of Finance, each with an accountable use case owner and an approval date. Approvals run from June 2025 to May 2026 and span policy and…
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Finance Released
COMCAR Trips
This release is a COMCAR trip register, a schedule of completed ministerial car services, covering roughly October 2025 to March 2026. The records relate to Senator Sean Bell and list service city, trip type, pickup and drop-off locations, passenger numbers, stop counts, payment…
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Finance Released
List of KPMG contracts
This FOI release is a single contract register extracted from AusTender, listing ten active Department of Finance contracts with KPMG as at 16 July 2026, with a snapshot date of 6 July 2026. Contracts are drawn from the Management Advisory Services panel and the DFAT Capital…
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Finance Released
Drafting of section of Budget 2026-27 Statement of Risks - Department of Home Affairs
This FOI release is a single internal email dated 11 December 2025 from Richard Adams of the Department of Finance to Romesh Guneratne of Home Affairs, copied to Sebastian Mathew. It reports that Sebastian attended an NZYQ inter-departmental committee meeting, which discussed…
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Brief prepared by Commercial Investments Division for May 2026 Budget Estimates
This Department of Finance estimates brief, prepared by the Commercial Investments Division for May 2026 Budget Estimates, addresses media scrutiny of travel, procurement and staffing at the Future Fund Management Agency, which invests over $337 billion. The brief sets out the…
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Briefs prepared by Digital ID and Data Policy Division for May 2026 Budget Estimates
This FOI release comprises a May 2026 Budget Estimates hot-issue brief prepared by Finance's Digital ID and Data Policy Division on the Data Availability and Transparency Act 2022. It summarises the independent statutory review, tabled on 3 March 2026, which found the Act has…
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Finance Released
Invoices for purchase of AI software
The release comprises around 40 invoices and receipts, mostly from OpenAI and one from Anthropic, for subscriptions to ChatGPT Plus, ChatGPT Business and a Claude-related plan. Individual ChatGPT Plus invoices are for US$20 per seat plus 10% GST, totalling US$22 monthly, billed…
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Brief prepared by AI Delivery and Enablement Division for May 2026 Budget Estimates
This Department of Finance estimates brief, prepared by the AI Delivery and Enablement Division for May 2026 Budget Estimates, covers the APS AI Plan, a 15-initiative framework across Trust, People and Tools pillars. Funding includes $28.9 million over four years for Finance's…
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Brief prepared by Procurement Division for May 2026 Budget Estimates
The document is a Procurement Division estimates brief, prepared for May 2026 Budget Estimates, on the KPMG whistleblower allegations raised by Senator Deb O'Neill on 24 March 2026. It covers alleged audit independence failures, misuse of confidential information, tender…
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Brief prepared by Corporate Division for May 2026 Budget Estimates
This Department of Finance estimates brief, prepared by the Corporate Division for May 2026 Budget Estimates, covers government advertising. It reports campaign advertising expenditure of $204.1 million in 2024–25, with $106.1 million spent in 2025–26 to the end of March 2026.…
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Briefs on non-wage procurement expenditure
This release is a ministerial submission (PDR MS26-000200, dated 20 March 2026) from the Procurement Division of the Department of Finance to the Minister for Finance, titled "Reducing spending on non-wage costs." Much of the text is redacted, so the substance is partial. The…
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Long Service Leave Liability Shorthand Method
The Department of Finance released a guidance document on calculating long service leave (LSL) liabilities for Commonwealth entities with up to 1,000 full-time equivalent employees. The document explains the shorthand method spreadsheet model permitted under the Public…