Australia’s Accountability Atlas · A Curious Tractor
See How Power
Actually Moves.
CivicGraph is the public graph of Australian money, power, and accountability. Contracts, donations, grants, boards, and lived outcomes resolved into one picture. Built for the organisations, journalists, and communities who want to act on what they find, not wait for someone else to fix it.
591,761 resolved entities. 1,526,943 cross-system relationships. 32,018 indexed grant records. One public graph. 1,442 entities already flagged as donor-contractors — the same orgs giving political money and winning government work. This is what the atlas is for.
April 2026 data snapshot
What The Atlas Does
Expose
Who holds power, where money flows, who is cut out. Across contracts, donations, grants, boards, and lived outcomes.
Resolve
The same organisation across AusTender, ACNC, AEC, and state registers. Entity resolution nobody else does.
Publish
Flagship investigations: Consulting Class, Indigenous Proxy Problem, revolving door, board interlocks.
Enable
Free for community orgs, journalists, and researchers. Track action rather than wait for others.
32,018
Grants
10,918
Foundations
591,761
Entities
1,526,943
Links
Built For
For Community Organisations
Understand the ecosystem you operate in. Find potential partners, unexpected funders, and the procurement pathways you’ve been locked out of.
Built For
For Journalists And Researchers
Query the atlas directly. Follow the money. Cross-reference boards, contracts, and donations across every system. Evidence for the next investigation.
Built For
For Communities Pushing Back
Who’s taking the money in your region? Who’s being cut out? Accountability briefs and data you can put in front of your MP, your council, your funders.
The Curious Tractor Portfolio
Four Lenses. One Philosophy.
CivicGraph is civic infrastructure inside the A Curious Tractor portfolio. Track action rather than wait for others. Each project is a different lens on the same civil society operating system.
CivicGraph
The power atlas. Who holds it, where it flows, who’s cut out. Contracts, donations, grants, boards in one graph.
JusticeHub
Sector evidence. ALMA interventions, outcomes, what actually works for youth justice and community-led change.
Empathy Ledger
First-person stories from inside the systems. The lived reality behind the data the atlas exposes.
Goods
Commerce with accountability. Buy from community-controlled and Indigenous-led organisations doing the work.
Live Investigations
What The Atlas Has Already Found
The reports aren’t marketing. They’re the product in action. Each one uses the same live graph to surface patterns that were previously scattered across a dozen disconnected government registers.
Consulting Class
$9.1B in government contracts to 7 firms. $10.5M in donations. 863:1 ROI on political giving. The Donate → Advise → Implement pattern.
Indigenous Proxy
57% of “Indigenous funding” flows to non-Indigenous organisations. Where the money actually lands vs. where it’s promised.
Revolving Door
Entities with two or more influence vectors: lobbying, donations, contracts, funding. 6,628 orgs mapped, scored by concentration.
Board Interlocks
People sitting on multiple boards across funders, recipients, and contractors. Who’s adjudicating whose funding.
Why This Matters
Nobody Else Connects These Systems.
AusTender shows contracts. AEC shows donations. ACNC shows charities. Nobody joins them.
Two years of entity resolution across every public Australian dataset.
Community-controlled and Indigenous-led organisations flagged and searchable.
Published under open access for researchers, journalists, and communities.
Track Action Rather Than Wait
The Atlas Is A Tool For Acting, Not A Dashboard.
The Four Corners episode might never come. The Royal Commission might not see this pattern. The Auditor General is five years behind. CivicGraph exists so communities, journalists, and small organisations don’t have to wait for institutions to get there. The evidence is here. Take it. Use it. Act.
1,442
donor-contractor entities already flagged in the graph
1,526,943
cross-system relationships available for investigation
Self-Funded Civic Infrastructure
Free For The People It’s Built For.
Communities
Small organisations, Indigenous-led groups, and community orgs use CivicGraph free. No tiers. No gates. This is what it exists for.
Journalism & Research
Investigative journalists and researchers get data access, collaboration on stories, and co-production. Reach out — we want your byline.
Institutions
Government agencies, universities, and peak bodies commission custom research, briefings, and bespoke analyses. Revenue funds the public good.
Built by A Curious Tractor. Self-funded. No investors. No customers to keep quiet for. Track action rather than wait for others.