Cross-Cutting Analysis
Follow the Money: Donor Influence
How do industry donations correlate with parliamentary votes? This analysis maps the relationship between who donates to which parties and how those parties vote on related legislation.
Influence Matrix
Each cell shows the influence score: how strongly donations from an industry correlate with favorable votes by that party. Click any cell, row, or column header to drill down.
Strongest Correlations
The party-industry pairs with the highest influence scores -- where donations most strongly correlate with favorable voting.
Industry Donations Overview
Total donations per industry across all parties, ranked by average influence score.
Methodology
The influence score measures the correlation between industry donations to a party and that party's favorable voting on legislation related to the industry. It is not a measure of causation.
For each party-industry pair, we: (1) sum all donations from that industry to the party; (2) identify parliamentary divisions related to that industry using keyword matching; (3) calculate the party's favorable vote percentage on those divisions; (4) compute a score combining donation magnitude with voting alignment.
Division-industry matching uses keyword lists (e.g., “gambling”, “poker machine”, “betting” for the gambling industry). This is an imperfect heuristic. Some divisions may be miscategorized or missed.
Data sources: AEC donation disclosures, TheyVoteForYou division records, OpenAustralia Hansard.