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Dean Smith

Senator for WA · Liberal Party

Shadow Assistant Minister to the Shadow Treasurer · since 17 Feb 2026Shadow Assistant Minister for the Cost of Living · since 17 Feb 2026

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Each recipient lodges its own return with the AEC. Figures are never added across recipients.

Related party return

Liberal Party (W.A. Division) Inc · 2023-24

Matched by Dean Smith's party and state; not named on a return of theirs. This is the party's own return, not money given to Dean Smith.

Donations received
$270,500
2023-24 annual return · AUD
Donors named
5
Gave more than the disclosure threshold
Largest donor
37%
John Hughes: $100,000

Who donated to the party

Receipts the party's return classifies as donations · 2023-24
  1. John Hughes$100,00037.0% of donations
  2. Mineral Resources Ltd2 gifts$55,00020.3% of donations
  3. Gilpin Park Pty Ltd atf the JJH No1 Trust$48,50017.9% of donations
  4. Liberal Party of Western Australia Pty Ltd$40,00014.8% of donations
  5. John Hughes Group$27,00010.0% of donations

Share is of donations. Bar length shows the amount, relative to the largest row.

Other money received, not counted as donations

Other Receipt
$244,000

As classified on the party's return. These can include public funding, loans and transfers between branches.

About these figures

Source: the AEC Transparency Register. Candidates lodge an election return after each election they contest. Sitting members lodge annual returns for donations received between elections (published each February), and parties lodge their own annual returns.

A donor has to be named once their gifts total more than the disclosure threshold. The rest appear only in the total, shown here as “donors not named”. A nil return means the candidate declared no gifts. “No return found” means none was matched in the data loaded here (candidate returns from 2022 onwards), which isn't the same as $0.

Disclosed amounts may not represent all money received. A donation doesn't show that a donor influenced a vote or decision.

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