Allegra Spender

We estimate Allegra Spender 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: $207,869
• Office Consumables and Services: $3,621
• Printing and Communications: $51,523
• Publications: $570
• Specified Public Resources: $52,201
• Telecommunications - Usage: $260
• Fares: $1,974
• COMCAR: $490
• Domestic Travel: $32,949
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $64,283

• Lambie, Hanson and Pocock form unlikely alliance to protect transparency campaigner Rex Patrick
• Politicians and media gather for Canberra’s Midwinter Ball– as it happened
• Afternoon Update: ABC and SBS called to antisemitism royal commission; Biden calls Trump a ‘loser’; and Erin Brockovich’s new battle
• Socceroos fans celebrate at city sites – as it happened
• The Community Strong Australia party’s ‘reason over rage’ sounds good to me. Can it appeal to One Nation voters too? | Zoe Daniel
• Morning Mail: Socceroos fever mounts, race to save Venezuela quake victims, Perth’s Hollywood paddock
• Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender have a new party – but what does it stand for and who will join?
• Paterson says Hanson’s vision for monocultural Australia ‘deeply weird’ as he defends Taylor’s response – as it happened
• Morning Mail: Stefanovic reportedly to leave Nine, new teal party launches, should we eat possum?
• Paul Hogan and Norman Gunston are ‘essential features of Australian monoculture’, Hanson says – as it happened

• Teals Steggall and Spender launch new Community Strong Australia party (2026-06-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Two teals, no leader- Zali Steggall and Allegra Spender launch their new party.
• Teal independents’ new party presents an opportunity – and a risk (2026-06-26)
  Phoebe Hayman, Josh Sunman
  To succeed, Community Strong will need to preserve community connections within their electorates, maintain their independence and ensure intra-party stability.
• The Wentworth Project: Allegra Spender’s profile rises, but polarises (2022-04-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  In the third report on The Wentworth Project, we find in focus group research that independent candidate Allegra Spender has shifted soft voters opinions about her
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Dave Sharma, Allegra Spender, and Kerryn Phelps on the contest for Wentworth (2022-05-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle Gratten speaks with the two main candidates in Wentworth, Liberal Dave Sharma and "teal" independent Allegra Spender, as well Kerryn Phelps, the former independent member in the seat.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: independent MP Allegra Spender on making tax fairer for younger Australians (2025-07-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  The influential crossbench MP warns young working people are going backwards financially. She also backs the government’s proposed YouTube ban for kids – for now.
• The Wentworth Project: polling shows voters prefer Albanese for PM, and put climate issue first in ‘teal’ battle (2022-03-23)
  Michelle Grattan, Max Halupka
  In the seat of Wentworth, the Liberals are being challenged by a high profile “teal” candidate, Morrison is unpopular, Albanese is preferred PM, and climate change tops issues people say will influence their vote.
• Crossbenchers cancel their membership of airlines’ elite lounges (2024-11-05)
  Michelle Grattan
  Independents, Allegra Spender and Helen Haines, have declared they are pulling out of the elite lounges run by Qantas and Virgin, amid the ongoing spotlight on privileges.
• View from The Hill: New watchdog won’t stop bad behaviour in parliament (2024-08-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  A new Parliamentary Standards Commission will oversee behaviour codes for parliamentarians and their staff. The primary function of the commission will be to investigate allegations of code breaches.
• View from The Hill: Could going too negative on ‘teals’ do Liberals more harm than good? (2022-04-24)
  Michelle Grattan
  As the government fights for its life, John Howard, the Liberals’ living icon, has been on the campaign trail.
• Parliament condemns antisemitism, but can’t avoid the blame game (2025-02-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  Independent Allegra Spender spearheaded a condemnation of antisemitism by federal parliament – but the debate was mired in partisanship.
• We can talk about a higher rate of GST in Australia, but it will never happen (2023-08-30)
  John Quiggin
  While Australia must make some hard choices to pay for services in the future, increasing the goods and services tax is just too hard.
• View from The Hill: would a ‘party of independents’ be a contradiction in terms? (2026-05-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  The flirtation by some “teals” with the idea of forming a new party is part of the major shakeup underway in our political system.
• The big teal steal: independent candidates rock the Liberal vote (2022-05-21)
  Amy Nethery
  Australian politics will never be the same after the stunning success of teal candidates at the 2022 federal election.
• The Wentworth Project: ‘Soft’ voters say Spender out-campaigning Sharma but some still weighing decision (2022-05-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  The battles in the most high-profile teal seats have become nail-biters as some “soft” voters in these previously safe Liberal heartland electorates are leaving their decisions until very late.
• Why teal independents are seeking Liberal voters and spooking Liberal MPs (2022-05-03)
  Amy Nethery
  One of the Morrison government’s biggest challenges in this election campaign is the rise of the so-called ‘teals’.
• Grattan on Friday: We need more tax revenue, but don’t ask the major parties how we’ll get it (2023-03-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government is hamstrung by its election promise to not raise taxes or bring in new ones. That’s for this term, but its narrow majority is likely to make Labor wary at the next election of bold tax reform promises.
• Grattan on Friday: Labor’s ‘Godfather’ seeks deal on electoral reform – but some fear changes could disadvantage community candidates (2023-06-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  Farrell and Albanese were long-time factional opponents. But under Albanese’s government, Farrell is prospering. With the thaw in China-Australia relations, it’s a very good time to be trade minister.
• The Wentworth Project: ‘Soft’ voters dislike Morrison but hesitate about Albanese (2022-04-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  In the second instalment of the Wentworth Project, voters didn’t like Scott Morrison one bit. But they couldn’t think of much positive to say about Anthony Albanese.
• Albanese backs down over sexual orientation census question (2024-08-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  The about-faces comes after outrage from LBGTQI groups, some Labor MPs and members of the public.
• Chalmers wins tail wind on tax reform from roundtable (2025-08-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  Jim Chalmers ends his roundtable more optimistic then he started, leaving in its wake broad support to work on three major areas of tax reform.