Alex Antic

We estimate Alex Antic received a parliamentary salary of: $239,270

Based on the Remuneration Tribunal base salary of $239,270 plus any additional allowance for ministerial, shadow or office-holder roles held at time of generation.

• Latest quarter total: $81,353
• Office Consumables and Services: $1,017
• Publications: $276
• Telecommunications - Usage: $1,145
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $396
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $2,694
• Parking: $508
• COMCAR: $67
• Travel Allowance: $6,118
• Fares: $8,816
• Parliamentary Duties: $314
• Domestic Travel: $23,823
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $36,179

• Anonymous $200,000 donation to charity providing free meals – as it happened
• One Nation’s surge in South Australia is a warning – fiddling at the edges is no longer enough | Tony Barry
• SA Liberals dump candidate who said homosexuality ‘opens up demonic realms’ after initially standing by him
• Can One Nation make it in South Australia? Liberal party fears peak humiliation at state election
• Joyce says he’s not aware of crime reports after Hanson comments – as it happened
• Shadow attorney general says it would be unacceptable to ‘effectively knife’ first female Liberal leader – as it happened
• One Nation has been surging in the polls. Next month’s South Australian election may reveal whether that’s a load of hot air
• Man charged over allegedly giving Nazi salute to Jewish students at Melbourne airport – as it happened
• From cute dogs to Turning Point: the journey of an influencer aiming to breathe rightwing Christian values into Australian politics
• Liberals to target international students and skilled migrants in proposed cuts to immigration

• Abortion is back in the headlines in Australia. The debates in the United States tell us why (2024-10-23)
  Prudence Flowers
  Energised by Roe v Wade being overturned in the US, a subset of Australian conservatives are embracing the tactics that dominate American politics.
• VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on a crazy week in Canberra (2021-11-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  University of Canberra Professional Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics
• Social media companies won’t be able to compel people to provide digital or government-issued ID to verify age (2024-11-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  Big tech platforms won’t be able to compel people to provide digital ID or government-issued identification documents such as a passport, when verifying age for social media accounts.
• View from The Hill: defiant Nationals break with Liberals over hate bill, putting strain on Coalition (2026-01-20)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Nationals have broken with their Coalition partners, voting against the government’s hate speech legislation despite the Liberals agreeing to it.
• View from The Hill: Scott Morrison trips on a truth test (2021-11-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  Scott Morrison has again had his integrity questioned over his decision to provide loose-with-the-truth answers during question time
• UN climate chief tells Australia to ‘go big’ with its 2035 emissions reduction target (2025-07-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  United Nations Climate Change Executive Secretary, Simon Stiell has urged Australia to go further in its climate goals, telling Australia to seize the moment.
• View from The Hill: Scott Morrison warns disorderly troops against putting ‘a smile on Labor’s face’ (2021-11-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  For a leader with something of a fetish about having things under control, Scott Morrison is in a painful place. Just now, it seems, very little is controllable.
• View from The Hill: Sussan Ley wedged by her own troops on Albanese omnibus legislation (2026-01-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  The debate over the government’s hate speech bill has left the opposition leader wedged on multiple fronts by a significant number of her own colleagues.
• The end of Roe v. Wade would likely embolden global anti-abortion activists and politicians (2022-05-04)
  Prudence Flowers
  The end of Roe v. Wade would dramatically impact reproductive rights in the US. It would also likely have symbolic consequences globally.
• View from The Hill: Australia’s bid for Julian Assange’s freedom presents formidable problems for Joe Biden (2023-09-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Anthony Albanese’s request for the Americans to drop their bid to extradite Assange has fallen on firmly blocked ears.
• Grattan on Friday: Aggrieved Liberals stamp their feet, testing Sussan Ley’s authority (2025-07-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  As any leader of a political party knows, when you demote people they can become difficult, or worse, for Sussan Ley her problems seem vast.
• Grattan on Friday: Morrison gives religious discrimination bill priority over national integrity commission (2021-11-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  Morrison has started the campaign trail but with parliament back next week, two key pieces of legislation will be in the spotlight: the religious discrimination bill and a bill for the long-awaited integrity commission,
• Grattan on Friday: Assertive Liberal moderates give Scott Morrison curry (2021-11-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  The overwhelming impression the Morrison government has projected this week is one of chaos. There has been one encouraging sign as a new generation of Liberal moderates belatedly raise their voices.
• The Vatican says gender theory threatens human dignity – but Judith Butler believes the ‘threat’ is social change (2024-04-08)
  Louise Richardson-Self
  In her new book, Who’s Afraid of Gender?, feminist philosopher Judith Butler explains how gender and sex are socially constructed, while fighting critics who see gender as a threat to the social order.
• Abortion did not play as big a role in the US election as many anticipated. What might happen on this issue now? (2024-11-07)
  Prudence Flowers
  Under a second Trump presidency, anti-abortion laws will be tightened, while Australian pro-life activists will likely to emboldened as well.
• Grattan on Friday: Could Josh Frydenberg still have a path to the Liberal leadership? (2023-03-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  Frydenberg, now in the private sector, hasn’t declared whether he will run again for Kooyong, but he hasn’t lost his political ambition
• Morrison’s ‘great electoral bungle’ leaves the Liberals decimated and heading in the wrong direction (2022-05-22)
  Mark Kenny
  Menzies’ party has been delivered a massive blow - complete with loud messages - from its traditional base. The question now is whether it will listen.
• Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison’s ministerial team looks far from match-fit (2022-01-20)
  Michelle Grattan
  The PM’s future will be a gamble on voter volatility. They’re in a very grumpy mood now. But where will they be in May?
• Why moving to the right could be wrong for Dutton and the Coalition (2024-04-10)
  Mark Kenny
  Given the damage to the Liberal “brand” in recent years, the opposition leader faces an arduous task in clawing back seats or winning new ones.
• Dumb or dumber? Jim Carrey’s anti-vax antics expose the tactics of internet cranks (2015-07-06)
  Michael J. I. Brown, Geraint Lewis
  Jim Carrey’s anti-vaccination tweets employ a number of techniques used by anti-science cranks. By understanding them, we can shield ourselves from well-intentioned but ill-informed voices.
• Friday essay: artists, radicals, ratbags: Melbourne’s lost 1950s bohemian hub, the Swanston Family hotel (2024-11-21)
  Lisa French
  Mid-century Melbourne was an exciting place, writes Lisa French. And her artist father, like others including Germaine Greer and Barry Humphries, found his tribe at a packed, beer-soaked city pub.
• Heading to the FIFA World Cup impacts Canadian identity — and helps us play on a bigger political field (2022-03-31)
  Tim Elcombe
  It’s fair to say the Canadian men’s national soccer team’s victory on Sunday meant something, eh?
• Hypocrisy is beneath them – political figures in the Trump era don’t bother concealing their misdeeds (2022-10-28)
  Rachel Hadas
  Shame and guilt seem equally foreign to many politicians and public figures these days. Rather than cover their bad behavior with a veneer of hypocrisy, they revel in it, a classics scholar says.
• Scheming Salmond may have left the SNP playing into Cameron’s hands (2015-03-27)
  Louise Thompson
  Alex Salmond might not be the leader of the Scottish National Party anymore, but that hasn’t stopped him from speaking out very loudly about his party’s potential role as kingmaker in the 2015 election…
• Desperate times for Man Utd at the heart of deadline day drama (2014-09-02)
  Simon Chadwick
  Football’s transfer window, like the post-Christmas sales, sees buyers frantically rushing around flush with cash and sellers rubbing their hands with glee. Except that, unlike goods in Selfridges on Boxing…
• The view from abroad on a year of Abbott’s muscular conservatism (2014-09-21)
  Carl Bridge
  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s government was sworn in just over one year ago, making this an opportune moment to review its performance from an international perspective. Abbott and his Canadian…
• ‘White Lotus’ music: When talented creators strive to realize their visions, differences and chattering can erupt (2025-04-28)
  James Deaville
  Differences between film directors or television producers and composers are not new. In traditional audiovisual collaboration, the composer falls under the leadership of the director or showrunner.
• Scotland goes in hard on press regulation with McLeveson (2013-10-11)
  Julian Calvert
  Nearly three years ago I sat in the newly refurbished Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow, supervising a team of journalism students who were covering the Society of Editors’ UK conference. The great and good…