Can you give me a list of all of the donations made to the labor party and by whom in march 2025 in australia
Executive summary
Available public reporting and the AEC transparency work reveal large, traceable donations to the Australian Labor Party in the lead-up to the 2025 federal election, but there is no single, complete public list strictly limited to “all donations made to the Labor Party in March 2025” in the provided sources; major items reported around that period include Pratt Holdings’ $2 million to Labor (reported across multiple outlets) and SA Progressive Business’ $1.4 million donation [1] [2] [3].
1. Why a definitive March‑2025 list is not available from these sources
Federal disclosure rules at the time meant most official donation reporting was annual and subject to thresholds that leave smaller gifts and some branch-level receipts opaque, so press coverage and watchdog sites aggregate and highlight big donors rather than delivering a single exhaustive month-by-month list, a limitation flagged by ABC, the Guardian and the Grattan Institute [4] [2] [5].
2. Big donations reported in the 2024–25 cycle that media link to Labor (and may include March entries)
Multiple outlets and data summaries for the 2024–25 disclosure cycle identify Pratt Holdings (Visy/Pratt family) as donating $2 million to Labor overall in the lead‑up to the 2025 election — described variously as two $1 million payments or a $2 million total — and reported as one of Labor’s largest corporate gifts [1] [2] [3]. SA Progressive Business, a Labor fundraising arm, is reported to have given $1.4 million [3]. Independent summaries and DonationWatch list recent Labor receipts but do not publish an authoritative month‑by‑month AEC extract in the provided snippets [6] [7].
3. Other large declared donors in the same reporting period (context, not necessarily March‑only)
Reporting compiled from the AEC’s 2024–25 disclosures and media analysis notes Labor received major declared receipts such as $3.3 million from the Mining and Energy Union and multimillion donations routed through party investment arms like Labor Holdings, which donated $4 million in the broader reporting period; these are part of the same disclosure set that journalists used to flag big donors in early 2025 [3] [2].
4. The “dark money” and disclosure threshold problem that obstructs month‑specific lists
Investigations by Guardian Australia and others showed tens of millions of dollars flowed to major parties from sources not identified in annual returns because of disclosure thresholds — the Guardian’s analysis put Labor’s unknown‑source receipts at roughly $36.7m of $162m in the 2024–25 figures — meaning even AEC filings leave large gaps that make a complete March‑only list impossible to compile from public records alone [2] [8].
5. What the provided data can reliably tell readers and what it cannot
From the supplied sources it is possible to identify headline donors recorded in the 2024–25 reporting cycle — for example, Pratt Holdings’ $2m to Labor and SA Progressive Business’ $1.4m [1] [3] — but none of the cited snippets present an authoritative, line‑by‑line AEC export limited to donations with transaction dates in March 2025, and they confirm systemic limits (annual reporting windows and disclosure thresholds) that prevent asserting a complete month‑by‑month ledger from these materials [4] [2].
6. How to get a verifiable, exhaustive March 2025 list
The only way to produce an authoritative, complete list limited strictly to donations received by the Labor Party in March 2025 is to obtain the AEC’s detailed financial disclosure returns for the party and its state branches (and any branch‑level returns) including transaction dates, or to consult comprehensive databases that ingest AEC raw files and offer date filters — sources reporters used include the AEC transparency register, DonationWatch and deep-dive Guardian/ABC analyses, none of which the provided snippets supply as a single March‑only export [6] [7] [4].