New Party Group field groups state and federal affiliated parties. N.B. as the Liberal and National parties operate in coalition, they have been grouped together.
A New Category classification (cat_ID_new) for donors:
Created to make it simpler to understand the impact of donations on the political system.
New Categories have been applied to all records from FY07 onwards. These aren’t perfect yet and will likely see some changes in the months ahead.
This data powers many of the charts that have appeared across the site
The new categories will be maintained in parallel to existing categories.
The existing donor categories (cat_ID) which Democracy for Sale has used in recent iterations has been retained for all existing and new (FY18) records.
Addition of a new d4s_id code to track each line from extraction from the AEC through to inclusion on the website.
‘Non Categorised’ lines
1063 donors that were previously uncategorised in the FY2007-FY2017 datasets have now been categorised (thanks to hard work of some staff and volunteers!)
487 donors still require categorisation
If you’re interested in helping categorise the data, please email senator.waters@aph.gov.au
