Golf classified: Deputy PM won't budge on naming wealthy golf buddy
Despite our emails, phone calls, and now an FOI request to his office, Richard Marles just won't divulge who provided him with a free round of golf at an exclusive US golf club on the eve of AUKUS talks last year.
Interests - 8,380
Shareholdings - 914
Trusts and nominee companies - 308
Real Estate - 759
Directorships - 238
Partnerships - 50
Liabilities - 660
Bonds and debentures - 168
Saving or investment accounts - 1,017
Other assets - 560
Other income - 358
Gifts - 1,042
Travel or hospitality - 735
Memberships / Office holder or donor - 1,363
Other interests - 208
Please explain, Pauline Hanson: Why didn't you declare your $1.1m property?
Senator Hanson's statement to the Register of Senators’ Interests last week is one of the strangest we've seen: she declared no longer receiving rental income from a property she never declared to the register.
Travel and hospitality Nearly 30% of federal parliamentarians have accepted sponsored overseas travel and hospitality since the 2019 election, raising questions about undue influence peddling from foreign and commercial interests. Foreign governments and private groups subsidise 130 overseas trips over four years
Fore! Deputy PM won't disclose details about free golf round
Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Richard Marles has breached parliamentary rules and the Ministerial Code of Conduct by not disclosing who gave him a free round of golf at a top US club with an ugly past.
Andrew Leigh MP

Member for Fenner, ACT
Assistant Minister for Competition, Charities and Treasury Assistant Minister for Employment
Australian Labor Party
Total Interests: 34
Latest alteration: Gifts - 18/05/23
Source: Statement of Registrable Interests - this contains interests declared as at 11/04/22 and alterations since then. More info
Three politicians fail to declare overseas junkets
If you are a politician who appears in happy snaps while on privately funded junkets, it's probably a good idea to disclose who funded your trip to the parliament's interests registers.
Taipei Confidential: More junkets exposed
Another day, another revelation. Our social media sleuthing has uncovered more MPs who haven’t declared privately sponsored overseas trips.
Money AND gifts: How the gambling industry buys political influence
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.
Transparency MP the latest caught not declaring junket
The other week our social media monitoring uncovered five politicians who didn't declare privately-sponsored junkets. Today we look at two more and ask why interest disclosure rules are not being enforced.