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Corruption perceptions index during each prime minister's tenure

Every prime minister since 1991, ranked by how the corruption perceptions index changed from their first day in office. Politare shows what happened during a tenure; it does not claim the office-holder caused it.

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1 Anthony Albanese23 May 2022 – now +3.0 points 2021 → 2025+0.8 points/yr
2 Malcolm Turnbull15 Sep 2015 – 24 Aug 2018 −2.0 points 2015 → 2018−0.7 points/yr
3 Scott Morrison24 Aug 2018 – 23 May 2022 −4.0 points 2018 → 2021−1.3 points/yr

Sorted by total, highest first. Every row is indexed to the last count complete before the first day in office ("from" marks a start that had to move because that count had no data, or because the period cut it); Levels are per cent changes, rates are differences in points; "per year" compounds levels and divides rates. Tenures with under 12 months, or under three observations, are left out. points, 0 to 100, higher is cleaner · Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI score): perceived public-sector corruption as business people and country experts rate it, comparable from 2012, the score as TI publishes it with its confidence interval · Australia data · as of Sep 2026.

Sources: Australian Bureau of Statistics (national and state accounts, Labour Force, Average Weekly Earnings, CPI, residential dwellings, population estimates, recorded crime), Natural Earth, World Bank (Worldwide Governance Indicators), V-Dem Institute, Transparency International, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons; city heads checked against the councils' and electoral commissions' records. Every chart is indexed to the office-holder's first day. Correlation is not credit. CreditsPrivacy