Reckoner exists to make Fraud, Waste & Abuse in Australian government spending impossible to ignore. We pull every public contract from AusTender, every audit finding from the ANAO, and run them through AI that quantifies the damage in dollars — then names who was responsible. Every claim is linked to the original document. Nothing is speculation.
Every finding is written in two layers. The first is plain English — the kind your mum can read, be angry about, and share with one tap. The second layer is the forensic detail: contract numbers, ABNs, dates, percentage blowouts, ANAO report references. The first layer makes it go viral. The second layer makes it undeniable — and signals to anyone responsible that we have the receipts.
Virality is the product. Government waste hides in complexity — thousand-page budget papers, obscure procurement categories, agency jargon designed to make your eyes glaze over. We strip that away, put the dollar figure in the headline, name the minister who was on watch, and make it one click to share. When enough Australians see these numbers, ignoring them becomes political suicide. That's the point.
Dollar figures in every headline. Plain language every Australian can understand. Named politicians. Built to be shared.
Every finding includes contract numbers, ABNs, dates, and source links. Journalists can cite it. Politicians can't deny it.
Waste is waste regardless of who's in government. But accountability is personal — the minister on watch is named, every time.
Every page, finding, report, and tweet is optimised to be shared. The more Australians who see this, the harder it is to ignore.
Data sources: AusTender (federal contracts), ANAO audit reports, federal budget papers. All data is publicly available. Every claim links to the original document.
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