Australians for Prosperity
Where the money comes from2024-25 return
Australians for Prosperity, source by source. Each named payer is on the left; the kind of money it is sits in the middle; the vehicle on the right.
One company funds it. Coal Australia gave $3,678,076 of $3.89m in receipts, and Silver River — the Fenwick family vehicle that also appears in Advance and Family First — gave $30,000. 95% of the money is itemised, which makes this the most legible vehicle on the conservative side purely because its single funder declares its own gifts.
- Itemised and named
- Not itemised, or named and unverifiable
Australians for Prosperity, source by source. Each named payer is on the left; the kind of money it is sits in the middle; the vehicle on the right.
One company funds it. Coal Australia gave $3,678,076 of $3.89m in receipts, and Silver River — the Fenwick family vehicle that also appears in Advance and Family First — gave $30,000. 95% of the money is itemised, which makes this the most legible vehicle on the conservative side purely because its single funder declares its own gifts.
- Itemised and named
- Not itemised, or named and unverifiable
What it is
A significant third party whose money comes from the coal industry. It is not a membership organisation and publishes no campaign of its own; its return reports one activity, electoral expenditure, and one funder AEC .
Where the money comes from
Coal Australia Limited gave it $3,678,076 in 2024-25, plus $30,000 from Silver River Investment Holdings, for $3,708,076 of itemised receipts against $3,890,479 in total AEC . It spent $2,838,026 on electoral communication, 73% of its receipts. Ninety-five per cent of its money is itemised, which makes it the most legible vehicle on the conservative side — because it is funded by one company that declares its own gifts.
The coal cluster
Coal Australia gave $5.39m in 2024-25, and $5.15m of it went to three vehicles: Australians for Prosperity ($2.74m of gifts plus $940,000 of other receipts), Jobs for Mining Communities ($1.33m) and Energy for Australians ($1.08m) AEC . The same company gave $131,000 to the Nationals, $84,500 to the LNP, $10,000 to the Liberals and $14,150 across four Labor branches — 21.5 times more to campaign vehicles than to parties AEC . It gave One Nation nothing.
Getting involved
The vehicle has no public membership or donation pathway. Whatever it does in Victoria is done with the coal company’s money, and the research records no way for a reader to take part.