Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has invested in Wall Street tech funds that hold shares in Apple, Google, Facebook and Microsoft - companies heavily criticised for their agility in shifting profits to low tax jurisdictions.
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Tweaks to Mr Turnbull's investment portfolio were revealed in the register of member's interests, published on Tuesday by Parliament.
The Prime Minister and his wife, Lucy, added stakes in exchange-traded funds Vanguard Information Technology and Vanguard Dividend Appreciation.
Vanguard ITF holds in its top 10 investments major US tech players including Google owner Alphabet Inc, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Inc, Microsoft, Apple, Visa, Mastercard and Cisco Systems.
Evidence of how little tax some of the biggest tech companies paid in Australia at Senate hearings last year led to former treasurer Joe Hockey asking the Australian Tax Office to tighten rules around profit-shifting.
Tax Justice Network spokesman Mark Zirnsak said that all politicians should invest in companies with track records of paying their taxes.
"We encourage all investors to back companies that comply with their tax obligations and the PM would be no exception to that," he said.
A spokeswoman for Mr Turnbull said he had nothing to add to statements he made at the recent G20 summit in China that "paying taxes is not optional - it's compulsory" and all companies should pay taxes in the jurisdictions where they operate and where they make their profits.
One of the most extensive declarations on the updated register was by former prime minister Tony Abbott, including travel and accommodation costs for his speech last month to the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists conference in Prague.
Mr Abbott continues to receive pro-bono legal representation in a defamation case brought by Victorian trade union boss John Setka.
He also declared his position on the advisory board of Ramsay Centre for Western Civilisation - an organisation named for the late healthcare magnate and Liberal donor Paul Ramsay.
Mr Abbott also declared his position on the Ukraine International Advisory Council.
Industry Minister Greg Hunt declared two $100 bottles of "the world's oldest beer", brewed using live yeast recovered from the historic shipwreck Sydney Cove which sank in Tasmania in 1797.
Tayna Plibersek accepted a "Fizza" poster from artist Michael Agzarian, which depicts Malcolm Turnbull's face above the descriptor and hangs in several Labor members and senators offices.
Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer listed her engagement ring as an asset worth over $7500, while Labor's Andrew Leigh and Turnbull frontbencher Christopher Pyne both reported income from book royalties and earnings.
Corangamite MP and former journalist Sarah Henderson declared a range of share holdings including in Fairfax Media, News Corporation, the Ten Network and Twenty-First Century Fox.
Newly elected Labor MP Anne Aly reported resigning as founding chair of the People Against Violent Extremism Association in August.
