Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles once described David Collard as 'innately entrepreneurial [and] values driven'. The AFP has now recommended charges be laid against Collard and his associates.

The inside story of how Richard Marles’ fondness for the US, hawkishness on China, and gullibility were played on by a businessman whose offices were raided by the AFP for alleged tax fraud.

MPs and their families have declared over 400 new holdings or divestments in listed companies since the May 2019 election.

Federal parliament needs to act against MPs who don’t declare their private interests and restrict gifts, free travel, and hospitality from influence peddlers. Check out our proposed reforms.

The gambling industry has provided nearly 300 tickets and gifts to MPs in the past five years.

An MP in Federal Parliament was charged with domestic violence-related offences on two occasions last decade.

In the past seven months the CEO of Scale Facilitation David Collard has had his business raided by the AFP over alleged tax fraud and then wound up for insolvency, faced lawsuits for unpaid wages and debts, and defaulted on the purchase of battery start up Britishvolt. Now he’s up on assault charges in the United States.

In what is becoming an all to regular occurrence, another federal parliamentarian has failed to disclose their privately funded overseas trip - the ninth we've discovered in less than eight months. Open Politics looks at what's driving a culture of non-compliance and how to fix it.

Liberal senator and shadow minister Hollie Hughes has breached Senate rules by not declaring her sponsored travel to Israel. Open Politics looks at a repeat offender and the need for reform. Update: Hughes disclosed the trip three days after this story was published.

One in four parliamentarians or their immediate family have declared shareholdings in or gifts and travel or hospitality from companies that are among the nation's 100 largest corporate greenhouse gas emitters, an examination of the interest registers reveals.

In addition to donating millions to Labor and the Coalition parties, gaming companies and pokies venues are giving hundreds of expensive gifts to their federal MPs, our new analysis reveals. Open Politics shows who's giving and who’s getting, as well as those with shares in gambling companies.

While federal ministers are prevented from owning shares, it’s a free for all for people with connections and influence with ministers, raising questions about whether non-public information is being used in share trading.

Our new analysis, based on automatically updated data, shows which public companies and industries federal parliamentarians and their families have shares in, and identifies the big shareholders.

Cross referencing the Australian Electoral Commission's donations register with the Parliament's interests registers reveals industrial scale influence peddling, with some of Australia's largest donors providing federal politicians with food, alcohol, and sports and concert tickets. And a Coalition MP suspects this is not the full extent of the largesse.