Follow the Money · South Australia
South Australia
Nothing is loaded for this government yet, and the four rows below say which document was looked for at each level and what was in it. Its budget papers are published at www.statebudget.sa.gov.au; until FOCUp has read them end to end this page stays empty rather than carrying estimates.
What South Australia publishes
0 of 4 levels below this government
- 2Departments
No figures loaded. Treasury has eight datasets on data.sa.gov.au and its budget releases stop at 2017-18, as a PDF. There is no current per-agency figure published as data.
- 3Programs
No figures loaded. Same publication: the sub-programs are in the budget paper PDFs, and the open-data release does not carry them.
- 4Projects
No figures loaded. SA publishes its capital works in the budget papers as documents rather than as a project register.
- 5Contracts
No figures loaded. The only contract register in the country behind a login. Its agency index is public and shows 3,035 awarded contracts across 68 agencies, but every contract under it sends you to a sign-in page, and reading one requires registering as a SUPPLIER — an account for businesses tendering for government work. FOCUp is not a supplier and will not register as one to get at information that should already be open to the public.
Why you cannot see who South Australia paid
South Australia publishes 3,035 awarded contracts across 68 agencies. The list of agencies below is public. Everything underneath it — the supplier, the amount, the term, what was bought — is not.
To read a contract, tenders.sa.gov.au requires you to register as a supplier: an account meant for businesses tendering for government work. FOCUp is not a supplier, and it will not register as one to obtain information that should already be open to the South Australian and Australian public. So this page stops here.
Every other government in this country publishes its awarded contracts to anyone who asks. The Commonwealth, New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT all do it without an account. South Australia is the exception.
Which agencies have awarded contracts
Counts only — the register publishes no value without an account
Department for Education
535
Department for Infrastructure and Transport
448
SA Health
265
SA Government Financing Authority
196
SA Water Corporation
176
Department of State Development
173
Urban Renewal Authority (trading as Renewal SA)
131
SA Housing Trust
95
Department of Human Services (DHS)
93
Housing SA - Asset Services
74
Attorney Generals Department
57
Department for Child Protection
55
South Australia Police
55
Primary Industries and Regions South Australia
53
Department for Energy and Mining
51
TAFE SA
51
Procurement SA
44
SAFECOM
43
Department for Environment and Water
40
Department of the Premier and Cabinet
36
Lifetime Support Authority
34
Office of the Chief Information Officer
33
Department for Correctional Services
30
South Australian Tourism Commission
27
Adelaide Venue Management Corporation
24
Department of Treasury and Finance
22
Department of Treasury and Finance Corporate Services
17
Department for Housing and Urban Development
14
South Australian Motor Sport Board
12
Defence SA
11
Essential Services Commission of South Australia
11
Courts Administration Authority
10
ForestrySA
10
System Admin Group
9
Super SA
8
Homestart Finance
7
Infrastructure SA
7
Return to Work Corporation of South Australia
7
SA Ambulance Service
6
Adelaide Cemeteries Authority
5
Green Industries SA
5
Office of the Commissioner for Public Sector Employment
5
Adelaide Hills Council
4
Commercial and Economics Branch
4
The History Trust of South Australia
4
Adelaide Festival Centre Trust
3
Audit Office of South Australia
3
EYRE PENINSULA LANDSCAPE BOARD
3
Families SA
3
Legal Services Commission of South Australia
3
West Beach Trust
3
Housing SA
2
Independent Commission Against Corruption
2
Motor Accident Commission
2
Attorney General's Department
1
Audit SA (Auditor Profile)
1
Berri Barmera Council
1
CTP Insurance Regulator
1
Child Youth & Women's Health Service Inc
1
City of Unley
1
Environment Protection Authority
1
Green Adelaide Board
1
HILLS AND FLEURIEU LANDSCAPE BOARD
1
MURRAYLANDS AND RIVERLAND LANDSCAPE BOARD
1
Office for Aboriginal Housing
1
SA Housing Trust
1
SOUTH AUSTRALIAN ARID LANDS LANDSCAPE BOARD
1
South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service
1
Read from the register's own agency index on 26 September 2026. The index lists two entries for the Attorney General's Department and two for the SA Housing Trust; they are left as published, because tidying a government's own list is the beginning of inventing one.