Caps. Disclosures.
Every regime.
Sorted.
Australian political donation law is eight jurisdictions of moving parts, read every donation against every rule, in real time. Together is the only platform that does that. Every donation evaluated against every cap and every disclosure rule, as it lands.
What keeps operations people awake is also what keeps them off-platform.
An unnoticed cap breach.
Under the Electoral Act a single donor exceeds their cap across two campaigns and nobody spots it until the AEC does. Refunds, referrals, headlines. The breach was arithmetic; the consequence is political.
Cap arithmetic errorsA missed disclosure.
The donor gives $1,200 through three channels, each under the threshold. Aggregated, it’s reportable. If your processor, your CRM and your forms all count separately, you won’t see it. Together does.
Aggregation blind spotsA foreign donor.
Allowable gift schemes differ by jurisdiction. The foreign-donor rules are strict. A well-meaning sustainer in London can put a national campaign in the media. Together does not screen nationality — what it gives you is one donor record with every gift and source attached, so the question is answerable the day it is asked.
Auditable donor recordA state rule you forgot.
NSW, VIC, QLD each have their own caps, their own thresholds, their own disclosure periods, their own election windows. If your platform only knows federal, you’re exposed in every other jurisdiction you operate in.
Multi-regime coverageA duplicateyou didn’t catch.
“Sam Patel” in NationBuilder, “Samantha Patel” in Stripe, “S Patel” in the CSV. Same person, three rows, three buckets below the threshold. To your disclosure report, they’re invisible. To us, they’re one donor.
Identity resolutionAn election window clicking on.
Rules change on declared election dates: new caps, new thresholds, new reporting cadence. Without a platform watching the gazettes, your staff are the safety net. Nobody wants to be that.
Election-period switchingA typical year is 42,000 donations.
For an average Australian organisation operating federally and in three states, that’s roughly 42,000 donations to process, 3,780 to disclose, 180 sitting close enough to a cap to need watching, across six different disclosure schedules.
Every grey cell is a donation that was fine. Every coloured cell is a donation that triggered a rule. Together reads every cell, in real time, and writes the disclosure for you.
in a typical year
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Federal isn’t enough. State matters.
Every Australian jurisdiction has its own donation regime, its own caps, its own thresholds, its own election windows. Together tracks them as configuration, not code. Adding a regime is a rule-set update, not a release.
| Jurisdiction | Donation cap | Disclosure threshold | Reporting cadence | Foreign donors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Commonwealth | $50,000 per recipient / year (from 2027) | $17,300 to 31 Dec 2026, then $5,000 | Annual to 31 Dec 2026, then by the 21st of the following month · 7 days in election periods, 24 hours expedited | Prohibited at $100 or more | Live |
| New South Wales | Coming next | ||||
| Victoria | $5,190 per recipient to 28 Nov 2026, then $7,500 per election cycle | $1,290 | Financial year · 21 days from each gift | Prohibited | Live |
| Queensland | Coming next | ||||
| South Australia | Rolling out Q3 | ||||
| Western Australia | Rolling out Q3 | ||||
| Tasmania | On request | ||||
| ACT | On request | ||||
| Northern Territory | On request |
Foreign-donor bans are stated as the law defines them. Together tracks caps and disclosure thresholds; it does not screen donor nationality.
One donor. One ledger. One truth.
Disclosure rules aggregate per person. Your systems aggregate per row. That gap is where compliance breaches live, and where good-faith errors become an auditor’s findings.
Together’s adapter framework pulls donor records from every source you use, matches them on external ID, email, normalised phone, and address, and builds a canonical donor with every external ID linked back. Caps and thresholds are always read against the canonical record, never the row.
Field precedence is configurable per org. Every merge and every split is logged with source attribution, so your compliance report is always auditable back to the original transaction.
- Total given$1,550
- Disclosure tier$1,000+
- Cap usage31%
- External IDs4 linked
- Audit trailfull