About
Why you can check everything
Gov Score exists so that anyone, whether a parent at the kitchen table, a journalist on deadline or a student, can find out how the country is going without wading through a dozen government websites, and without being told what to think.
Our standards
- Official figures wherever they exist. Every number links to the page it came from. The one exception is market rents for new leases, which no agency publishes; that figure comes from Cotality and is labelled as such.
- Verdicts only on real commitments. The government is judged against what it said it would do, under rules published in full. Everything else is shown without a verdict.
- The same rules for whoever governs. The rules don’t mention a party. When the government changes, the same yardsticks apply to the next one.
- Plain words. No jargon without an explanation, and no adjectives doing the work of evidence.
- Mistakes are fixed in public. See the corrections log.
How the site works, in one table
| Data sources | ABS, Reserve Bank, Treasury and Budget papers, AOFM, program agencies; IMF and World Bank for G20 comparisons; Cotality for market rents. Listed on every page. |
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| Automated systems | A daily program fetches the official series, recalculates every figure and runs hundreds of tests. A failed test holds the last verified figure back. What “checked” means. |
| Human review | Commitments, verdict rules, hand-entered figures and controversies are checked by a person against the source, and dated. |
| Verdict rules | Published in full on the methodology page, version 2.1 (2026-09-18). Every verdict has a “Show the evidence” panel. |
| Corrections | Logged in public with dates on the corrections page. |
| Data downloads | Every series as CSV and JSON on the data page. |
Why you can trust the figures
You don’t have to take our word for anything. Every figure links to the official page it came from, every verdict follows a rule published in full on the methodology page, and everything can be downloaded and checked. If a number here doesn’t match its source, tell us and the fix will be logged in public.
What we won’t do
- Publish a figure we can’t trace to an official source, or a claim we can’t attribute.
- Change a figure or a verdict to suit anyone. Verdicts follow the published rules, whoever they flatter.
- Run advertising that tracks you, or sell or share subscriber email addresses.
Get in touch
Use the report form for errors, missing commitments or anything else. Every message is read.