ZPF
Zero Political Funding Pledge

Certification for Australian businesses that fund no political party.

A commitment anyone can check — not a line on your own website.

Free to apply · Under 15 minutes · You only pay if approved

ZPFPledged & Screened

Why businesses certify

If a questionnaire asks

Procurement and supplier-code questionnaires sometimes ask about political donations and conflicts of interest. “No” is an assertion. A certification ID with a live verification URL is an answer someone else can check.

The question you get asked

Customers, journalists and new hires ask where your money goes. Send a link instead of writing a paragraph.

A position that costs you nothing

Most political signalling wins one group and loses another. Funding no party at all is the rare stance that does not ask your customer to agree with you first.

A public record, not a private policy

Your commitment sits on a register the public can search, revocable if breached — worth more in a board or investor conversation than a policy in a drawer. As the register grows, it also becomes somewhere buyers go looking.

What certification establishes — and what it does not

A pledge

A forward promise, given under contract, that no entity in your declared group will make a political donation. Breach is grounds for revocation.

A declaration

Your own signed statement covering the previous twelve months, made by a named signatory on the business’s behalf.

A screen

Your declared group — entities, trading names and directors — matched against the published AEC Transparency Register, with every decision made by a person.

Pledged, declared, and screened against published AEC disclosures. Not an audit or guarantee.

Screening covers the published federal register only. It cannot see donations that are recent and not yet published, or below disclosure thresholds. It does not cover state, territory or local government donations. And it cannot see what was never declared.

The twelve-month position is the business’s own declaration, not independent data. Full disclaimer.

How certification works

1

Apply

ABN, group declaration, attestation.

2

Screening

Screened against published AEC data, decided by a person.

3

Display

Live-status badge, and a listing on the public register.

Most applications are decided within five business days.

Where the badge goes

Certification is something you display. One line of copy-paste HTML puts it on your site; the same mark works in a signature block or a tender response.

On your websiteUsually the footer, where trust marks are looked for.
Your Name
Director, Your Business Pty Ltd
your.name@your-business.com.au
your-business.com.au
ZPFPledged & Screened
In an email signatureSeen by every customer and supplier you correspond with.
Supplier response
4.3 Political donations and neutrality

Your Business Pty Ltd makes no political donations. This is certified independently and can be verified at any time:

ZPFPledged & Screened

zeropoliticalfunding.com.au/verify/your-business

In a tender or capability statementAn answer to the supplier-code question, with something behind it.

The badge reads live status, and that is the whole point. It is not an image you are sent — it links to your verification page and reflects what the register says right now, reaching every site displaying it within an hour of a change. Anyone can copy a logo. Nobody can copy a ZPF record that answers for itself. See it on the public register.

What it costs

Free to apply. Free to be screened. You pay only if you are approved.

AUD $30 + GST for the first year — a discounted launch rate — then AUD $60 + GST a year (AUD $33 then AUD $66 including GST).

The launch rate is available until 31 December 2026.

Renews automatically each year. Cancel any time from your member portal. Full pricing detail.

Apply for certificationNothing is charged unless you are approved.

Straight answers

Will displaying this make us look political?

It is the common worry, and it is why the pledge is framed the way it is. You are not endorsing anyone or opposing anyone — you are stating that you fund no party, of any persuasion. It is the one position in this area that does not ask a customer to agree with you before doing business with you.

Is the scheme itself partisan?

No. The pledge covers every political party, candidate and associated entity equally, and the scheme takes no position on any of them. Screening uses the AEC’s published data; the AEC does not endorse this scheme.

What if we have donated in the last twelve months?

Then you cannot make the declaration yet. It covers the previous twelve months, so the earliest you could certify is twelve months after the last donation by any entity in your group. Apply then — applying and screening are free, and nothing is charged unless you are approved.

What if a director donates personally?

That sits outside the pledge. A donation made by a director, officer or employee in their personal capacity, from their own resources, without reimbursement or direction from the business, is expressly excluded. Pledge, exclusion 4.

What about industry association fees?

Also outside it — unless you know the body is an associated entity of a political party. Pledge, exclusion 3.

What happens if a donation surfaces after we are certified?

Breach of the pledge is grounds for revocation, but not summarily. Except where continued listing would mislead the public, you receive written notice of the grounds and at least ten business days to respond, and the decision is made by someone not involved in the original one. If certification is revoked, the register listing is withdrawn and every badge you have placed shows “not currently certified” within the hour. Member Agreement, clause 8.

Who runs this, and why should we trust it?

Zero Political Funding Pledge is operated by McGovern Solutions Pty Ltd (ABN 83 632 212 849), a small Australian company. It is not government-backed, and the AEC does not endorse it. The operator is itself listed on the register, screened by the same process and decided under the same procedure as any other member. What the scheme is worth rests entirely on its published documents being exactly true — which is why they are all public, and why this page tells you where the screening stops. Read the documents.

Certify your business

Applying and screening are free. Most applications take under 15 minutes.

Make the pledge

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