Andrew Bragg

We estimate Andrew Bragg received a parliamentary salary of: $299,090

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: $134,044
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $297
• Telecommunications - Usage: $805
• Printing and Communications: $13,052
• Publications: $127
• Office Consumables and Services: $1,698
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $3,360
• COMCAR: $1,951
• Travel Allowance: $5,257
• Fares: $8,478
• Domestic Travel: $18,528
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $80,490

• Pauline Hanson secured government solar rebate despite calling for subsidies to large-scale renewables to end
• Liberals should become ‘party for first home buyers’ and cap negative gearing, former MP says
• Labor approves 4.41% increase for health insurance premiums – as it happened
• Angus Taylor unveils Coalition frontbench with Tim Wilson as shadow treasurer and Nationals returned
• Liberal figure Charlotte Mortlock quits party amid feared backlash over dumping of first female leader
• New leader targets immigration in first comments after spill – as it happened
• Thousands gather at Melbourne Herzog protest – as it happened
• Shadow attorney general says it would be unacceptable to ‘effectively knife’ first female Liberal leader – as it happened
• Protesters chant ‘we have the right to demonstrate’ at rally outside Sydney police station – as it happened
• Greens senator claims One Nation the party of ‘billionaires, not battlers’ – as it happened

• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Bragg flags a coalition would use ‘coercion’ of the states to get more new houses built (2024-05-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Andrew Bragg joins us to explain why the coalition sees migration as a major issue when it comes to housing supply.
• Bragg drops out of Liberal preselection battle, calling for woman candidate (2018-09-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  There are three women in the field - Mary-Lou Jarvis, a vice-president of the NSW Liberal party; Katherine O'Regan, a commercial board director, and Maxine Szramka, a rheumatologist.
• View from The Hill: It’s just too hard and too late to delay and recalibrate Voice referendum (2023-07-24)
  Michelle Grattan
  Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg, a ‘yes’ backer, suggested the referendum should be put off until mid-2024 in a radio interview last week
• View from The Hill: MPs aim for lightning sitting on stimulus, as third parliamentarian contracts virus (2020-03-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  A pared-down parliament will aim to pass the government’s stimulus package in a single day’s sitting on Monday.
• View from The Hill: Ita isn’t saluting the captain who picked her (2021-11-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  Liberal Senator Andrew Bragg has triggered another fight between the government and the ABC by initiating a senate enquiry into the ABC’s complaints process
• Is the latest ABC inquiry really just ‘business as usual’? (2021-11-16)
  Matthew Ricketson, Patrick Mullins
  The ABC is at a critical point in its history. Yet another parliamentary inquiry into its processes is not as straightforward as it seems.
• View from The Hill: Dutton apologises for missing Apology’s symbolism but how will he see the Voice’s symbolism? (2023-02-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Now, as he grapples with the issue of the Voice, Dutton has to make a judgement about the symbolic significance of this latest test he faces.
• Grattan on Friday: How ‘guaranteed’ is a rise in the superannuation guarantee? (2019-08-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  Liberal senator Andrew Bragg is one of the Coalition backbenchers who oppose the scheduled superannuation guarantee rise to 12%. They are looking to the retirement incomes inquiry to leverage change.
• ASIC has comprehensively failed and its role should be split in two, according to long-awaited report (2024-07-03)
  Jason Harris
  ASIC is stultifying under ineffective governance and a mandate so broad that it can point to almost any action as being relevant to its duties.
• Angus Taylor defeats Sussan Ley by hefty margin of 34-17 as Liberal leader (2026-02-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Angus Taylor has defeated Sussan Ley for Liberal leader by a hefty margin of 34-17, giving him strong authority.
• 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.
• Dutton won’t announce medium term emissions targets before election – Albanese says that’s walking out of Paris (2024-06-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  Dutton on Tuesday reaffirmed the opposition was committed to the net zero by 2050 target but said they would only announce its medium term emission reduction targets after the next election.
• View from The Hill: Conservative Liberals hold ‘power walk’ before delivering coup de grâce to net zero (2025-11-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Liberals are set to dump net zero with a strong majority of the party room speaking out against the policy.
• VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Senate’s ABC inquiry, policy announcements, and federal integrity commission (2021-11-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  University of Canberra Professional Fellow Michelle Grattan and University of Canberra Associate Professor Caroline Fisher discuss the week in politics
• Nick Greiner favourite to become Liberal federal president (2017-05-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  Nick Greiner’s business connections would be helpful in the urgent need for the strapped party to raise funds.
• Wentworth goes to the polls on October 20 (2018-09-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The byelection is vital for Scott Morrison who will face a very difficult test in his initial days as prime minister. He will encounter a lot of anger in the electorate at the removal of Turnbull.
• Julian Leeser, Liberal spokesman on the Voice, quits opposition frontbench to campaign for yes vote (2023-04-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  Leeser says his position is based on ‘keeping faith with the First Peoples of this land’, though he has affirmed his support for Peter Dutton’s leadership in the Liberal Party.
• Voluntary super: a good way to increase women’s dependence on men (2019-07-28)
  Helen Hodgson, Myra Hamilton
  Making super voluntary for low earners, as proposed by a Liberal senator would leave more women vulnerable in old age.
• View from The Hill: Unmoored Ley has the appearance of a dead woman walking (2025-11-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  No one can criticise Ley’s work rate, or her attempts to tap into the community. But she lacks a strong framework of political beliefs to project.
• Capital gains tax discount ‘skewed’ housing towards investors: Senate inquiry (2026-03-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  The committee said it had consistently heard that the current design of the discount “can distort decision making and incentivise tax planning”.
• No, the Voice isn’t a ‘radical’ change to our Constitution (2023-02-22)
  Scott Stephenson
  The current draft wording is the model most consistent with Australia’s current and historical constitutional practice.
• View from The Hill: fractured Liberals drown net zero and themselves in a torrent of verbiage (2025-11-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  On Monday alone, the Liberals wallowed in the crisis over energy policy, its parliamentarians indulged in more than 35 media appearances.
• The Lowe road – the RBA treads a ‘narrow path’ (2023-02-17)
  John Hawkins
  Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe is unrepentant about the prospect of further interest-rate rises. In fact, he says there’s a risk the bank is not doing enough.
• View from The Hill: Albanese says Whitlam’s dismissal ‘calculated plot’; Liberals consumed by current battle (2025-11-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  Anthony Albanese has denounced Gough Whitlam’s dismissal from office in 1975 as “a calculated plot, hatched by conservative forces
• Party leaders need to address federal parliament’s intolerable workplace culture: Phelps (2018-09-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  Attention is coming on the Minister for Women Kelly O'Dwyer, who issued a general statement last week condemning bullying, to take a stronger stand. O'Dwyer is expected to say more this week.
• Turnbull resigning seat on Friday, giving Morrison a real-time voting test (2018-08-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  Wentworth has a 17.7% margin but Turnbull’s personal vote is large and the campaign there could be difficult and certainly will be expensive.
• View from The Hill: another Liberal moderate to leave Dutton team (2024-12-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  A second member of the shadow cabinet has announced he is quitting parliament, further depleting the moderates’ presence in the parliamentary Liberal party and boosting the chance of the teal candidate…
• View from the Hill: Liberals and Nationals patch things up and announce a shadow ministry (2025-05-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  As the Coalition re-forms, tensions are still running high in the Nationals.
• View from The Hill: Peter Dutton talks up nuclear replacements for coal-fired generators (2024-03-05)
  Michelle Grattan
  Peter Dutton’s minor cabinet reshuffle, paired with the announcement of his nuclear energy policy, makes it hard to decide whether Peter Dutton is a gambler at heart or ultra-cautious.
• New rules for crypto assets will protect consumers and innovators (2022-06-08)
  Aaron M. Lane
  Australia is in the middle of a much-needed process of regulating cryptocurrency and related digital assets, but there’s plenty still to be done.