Ali France

We estimate Ali France 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: $128,963
• Printing and Communications: $44,845
• Office Consumables and Services: $13,933
• Publications: $586
• Telecommunications - Usage: $1,198
• Travel Allowance: $7,304
• Fares: $8,321
• COMCAR: $1,723
• Domestic Travel: $12,459
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $38,596

• No positive STI results to date as testing of children in case of accused childcare paedophile continues – as it happened
• Morning Mail: Ozzy Osbourne dies, childcare centre worker accused, starvation horror in Gaza
• Labor MP Ali France thanks late son for his belief in her in first speech to parliament after unseating Peter Dutton
• New MPs deliver first speeches – as it happened
• Husic says Australia should be ‘prepared’ for other nations to sanction Israel – as it happened
• Mark Dreyfus and Ed Husic to be dumped from Labor cabinet – as it happened
• Morning Mail: India ‘must suffer’, says Pakistan PM, Albanese takes aim at defeated Green, black smoke from the Vatican
• The Peter principle: how Dutton’s election campaign in Dickson went horribly wrong
• Who is Sarah Witty? The Labor candidate set to dethrone Greens leader Adam Bandt in Melbourne
• Goldstein on knife edge as 16 seats still in doubt; Murray Watt says Labor not given credit for ‘ambitious’ agenda – as it happened

• View from The Hill: Peter Dutton – Labor’s not-so-secret weapon against Hunt and Sukkar (2019-04-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  While Peter Dutton is fighting for his political life in his marginal Brisbane seat of Dickson, he is being “weaponised” by Labor in its efforts to defeat two of his strongest Victorian supporters, Greg…
• Albanese increases majority and Dutton loses seat in stunning election landslide (2025-05-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  Albanese has won a landslide victory at the 2025 election, in a major upset for the Coalition.
• Election Diary: Labor to slash more consultant costs and increase visa charges to pay for fresh election commitments (2025-04-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  Labor is putting pressure on Peter Dutton to reveal the opposition’s costings after showing savings of more than $6.4 billion in its costing compared to PEFO.
• Why preferential voting is superior to first past the post (2026-02-03)
  Adrian Beaumont
  Australia has long had preferential voting, and it is the best system for safeguarding our democracy.
• Poll wrap: Newspoll steady at 53-47 despite boats, and Abbott and Dutton trailing in their seats (2019-02-26)
  Adrian Beaumont
  Despite a week of heated debate over the medevac legilation, the latest polls continue to show Labor with an election-winning lead.
• The ‘feminisation’ of Labor is a key reason Australians embraced it – and Anthony Albanese (2025-05-06)
  Paul Strangio
  It also saw a strong repudiation of ‘Duttonism’ – a Frankenstein version of ‘Howardism’.
• Federal election 2019: state of the states (2019-04-10)
  Nick Economou, Chris Aulich, Ian Cook, Maxine Newlands, Michael Lester, Richard Eccleston, Rob Manwaring
  Keep up-to-date with how the federal election is playing out locally. Our State of the States series takes stock of the key issues, seats and policies affecting the vote in each of Australia’s states.
• State of the states: six experts on how the campaign is playing out around Australia (2025-04-16)
  David Clune, Narelle Miragliotta, Paul Williams, Robert Hortle, Rob Manwaring, Zareh Ghazarian
  We’re more than halfway through the march to polling day and politicians are zig-zagging across the country. Here’s what’s happening in each state.
• State of the states: Adani, economics and personality politics (2019-04-18)
  Nick Economou, Chris Aulich, Ian Cook, Maxine Newlands, Richard Eccleston, Rob Manwaring
  West Australian voters need convincing that the Coalition will be better than Labor at managing the economy. Meanwhile, the Queensland seat of Dickson has already descended into personality politics.
• Friday essay: beyond ‘girl gone mad melodrama’ — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers (2021-08-26)
  Liz Evans
  There’s something disturbing about a story tracking a character’s mental decline for thrills. Happily, Paula Hawkins’ new novel, A Slow Fire Burning, joins a genre of books bucking this trend.
• From Rwanda to Mali: France’s chequered history in Africa (2013-01-22)
  Bronwyn Winter
  Why the French intervention in Mali? Last week, French daily Le Monde asked this question of André Bourgeot, specialist on Sub-Saharan Africa with France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS…
• Why hundreds of westerners are taking up arms in global jihad (2014-07-01)
  Ali Mamouri
  The conflicts in Syria and Iraq are attracting many westerners, including young Australians, as jihadi fighters. Last December, Australian intelligence agencies reported that they were aware of at least…
• The Sykes-Picot Agreement and the making of the modern Middle East (2016-05-12)
  Aaron W. Hughes
  The Sykes-Picot Agreement created the modern Middle East. It represents one of the first installments in a long line of modern European – and subsequent American – meddling in the region.
• Iran’s long history of revolution, defiance and outside interference – and why its future is so uncertain (2025-06-18)
  Amin Saikal
  Iran is highly fragmented and doesn’t have a long tradition of democracy or a unified opposition movement. So what happens if the supreme leader is toppled?
• Omran Daqneesh: the poster child for cognitive dissonance (2016-08-22)
  Mark Beeson
  They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Perhaps so, but let me add another 800 or so on the image above, which has cut through the media deluge like no other of late. The fact that we know the name…
• Ceasefire talks collapse – what does that mean for the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza? (2025-07-28)
  Ali Mamouri
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the situation in Gaza has gone beyond the world’s worst fears as hopes of a truce between Israel and Hamas have been dashed.
• Iran is under pressure from Australia at a pivotal moment – time is running out to strike a nuclear deal (2025-08-26)
  Ali Mamouri
  Australia’s accusations against the IRGC will likely add momentum to the push for broader Western alignment against Iran.
• With US bombers at the ready, can Trump cut a deal with Iran and avoid a war? (2025-04-05)
  Amin Saikal
  Donald Trump has given Iran two months to agree to a new nuclear deal or be prepared for war. Here’s how both sides could come to an agreement.
• Sit on hands or take a stand: why athletes have always been political players (2017-01-16)
  Daryl Adair
  When athletes take a stand on sociopolitical issues, they have a public profile by which to showcase their views. But they face criticism that it is not their ‘place’ to comment on sensitive matters.
• Sport is full of conspiracy theories – Chris Froome’s horrific cycling crash is just the latest example (2019-06-18)
  Mathew Marques
  Conspiracy theories help sports fans make sense of unexpected events – like when a whole rugby team becomes sick before a world cup final, or the retirement of Michael Jordan from basketball.
• Australia has more women in cabinet than ever before: what difference will diversity make? (2022-06-01)
  Louise Chappell, Claire Annesley
  For many years Australians cabinets lagged behind the rest of the world on gender equality. Now women make up almost half of cabinet and hold a string of key portfolios.
• Friday essay: Joan of Arc, our one true superhero (2017-08-17)
  Ali Alizadeh
  Forget Wonder Woman and Batman. The Maid of Orléans - an uneducated, teenage girl who led armies to victory - is a hero for our times.
• Gabon: no sign in sight of a family dynasty being displaced (2016-10-05)
  Florence Bernault
  Ali Bongo seems to have won Gabon’s elections. Yet his contested “victory” has radically changed the political field in this soft democracy, one of Africa’s richest and most stable.
• The Conversation launches in Brazil (2023-09-06)
  Misha Ketchell
  Our new colleagues in Brazil join a growing global network of journalists and academics trying to be part of the solution to the problems facing journalism and the societies we serve.
• In Our Evenings, Alan Hollinghurst takes an elegiac look at class, sexuality and race in post-Brexit Britain (2025-01-13)
  Andrew van der Vlies
  Our Evenings is concerned with people who try to fit in, but whose experience of British life is marginal, whether on account of class, race or sexuality.
• Gabon’s political force is its thriving hip-hop scene (2017-10-03)
  Alice Aterianus-Owanga
  Rap has become instrumental in constructing identity and radically reshaping relations to politics in Gabon and other African states.
• To score, or not to score? Sex, WAGs and the World Cup (2014-06-15)
  Toby Miller
  While watching their national teams play in the World Cup, spectators may have their attention drawn away from the “beautiful game” on the pitch to the beautiful people off the pitch – the footballers…
• Why the Iran nuclear agreement is a deal worth honouring (2016-12-08)
  Anthony Billingsley
  The repercussions should Donald Trump withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement, are detrimental to Iran’s economy, regional stability and US dealings with Europe and Russia.
• Bunnies or bilbies? Why animals define Easter (2013-03-29)
  Brian Cooke
  This Easter it is worth asking what the Easter Bunny is all about. Indeed, there’s more to the furry character than a fondness for chocolate. Rabbits were first domesticated by monks in the south of France…
• China and the shadow of colonialism still looming over Africa (2012-08-20)
  Thomas Clarke, Charles Okumu
  Graphic pictures of South African police firing at striking black workers protesting for a living wage at the Lonmin platinum mine last week is a tragic reminder of Africa’s neo-colonial past, that never…