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This research note replicates Leigh's (2008) analysis of pork-barrelling in Australian politics and tests the validity of his findings using geographic techniques. Distributive politics is integral to nearly all theories of legislative politics because it is fundamental to the connection between legislators and constituents, and can be used to facilitate coalition-building. This note addresses an aspect of pork-barrelling that has been overlooked in most previous scholarship. It argues that distributive politics is, at its core, a geographic, constituency-centred process. It is therefore essential to reconsider the conventional models and take geography into account in both substantive and statistical terms. To that end, we replicate several of Leigh's results using a relatively new technique, Geographically Weighted Regression, and reveal substantial spatial heterogeneity in the coefficients. Our findings highlight the importance of political geography and have important implications for studies of legislative politics and elections. 本文重复了李（2008）对澳大利亚政治分肥拨款的分析，用地理学技术检测了其发现有效性。分配政治内在于几乎所有的立法政治理论，因为它是立法者与选民之间联系的基础，有利于联盟的构建。本文探讨了分肥拨款被以往学术研究所忽略的一个方面。作者认为，分配政治其核心是一个地理的、以选区为中心的过程。因此有必要重新检讨固有的模式，切实而且从统计的意义上采纳地理的视角。我们使用了一种相对新近的技术，即地理加权回归分析来重复李的几个成果，发现空间同质系数很高。我们的发现突出了政治地理的重要性，对于立法政治以及选举的研究有参考意义。 [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]