Please note the guides below are provided for general background information only and will be updated and republished for any future elections.
They should not be used for any official purpose or considered legal advice.
General
Funding, disclosure and registration guides
- Introduction to FAD registration concepts (PDF, 687KB)
- Associated entities (PDF, 367KB)
- Foreign person - Foreign Acquisitions and Takeovers Act 1975 - extract (PDF, 119KB)
- Independent candidates (House of Assembly and Legislative Council) (PDF, 499KB)
- Prescribed particulars guide (PDF, 132KB)
- Registered political parties and endorsed candidates and groups (PDF, 472KB)
- Third parties (PDF, 405KB)
Funding and disclosure portal guides
- Annual political expenditure returns (PDF, 641KB)
- Associated entities - registration and associated entity returns (PDF, 1.5MB)
- Candidates and groups - registration and campaign donation returns (PDF, 537KB)
- Candidates and groups - capped expenditure period returns (PDF, 496KB)
- Donors - registration and donor returns (PDF, 616KB)
- Registered political parties - registration and political party returns (PDF, 1.8MB)
- Registered political parties - capped expenditure period returns (PDF, 613KB)
- Third parties - registration and third party returns (PDF, 2.1MB)
- Third parties - capped expenditure period returns (PDF, 528KB)
By-elections
- Election Funding Guide: by-elections (PDF, 157KB)
- Funding Disclosure Registration - 2024 Black by-election - Timetable of Key Compliance and Registration Events