A system designed to ensure transparency and integrity in political funding has more than doubled in contract value in six months, ballooning to $71 million.
Yet the agency that commissioned it has shrugged off questions about the escalating costs, attributing them to a "modular contracting approach".
The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) contracted Accenture in January 2026 to build a secure, cloud-based platform to manage political donations as part of the Funding and Disclosure (FAD) reform program.
