This is a screenshot from ECQ’s expenditure disclosure page, showing the three main parties’ largest expenditures.
Note that it shows:
- For LNP: all expenditures over $10,000
- For Labor: all expenditures over $1,000
- For the Greens: all expenditures over $500
As a summary:
- The LNP spent just over $1,000,000 counting only the expenditures over $10,000 each (the top 12 of their 55 expenditures)
- Labor spent over $283,000 counting only expenditures above $1,000 each (that’s the top 15 of their 35 expenditures)
- The Greens spent just over $18,300 on their expenditures over $500 each (the top 9 of 31 expenditures)
And as a free bonus, here are all of independent Councillor Nicole Johnston from Tennyson Ward’s expenditures:
Am I the only one who finds “full pade advertisment” funny? Nobody seems to be talking about that one!
It’s also a little unfair to compare Nicole Johnston’s spending with the parties - presumably the parties are campaigning on behalf of multiple candidates? I’m sure the numbers would still come out very tilted if the parties were broken down per candidate and we’d be able to make the same point.
Oh ha! I didn’t notice that. In fact I barely noticed that column at all!
But yeah I definitely wasn’t trying to create a 1:1 comparison with Cr Johnston. I put her there because she’s interesting, and she’s the only ward candidate who disclosed anything that I found. I didn’t look at all wards, but did go through maybe 7 or 8 different ones at random.