Anika Wells

The 10 most recent “Aye” and “No” votes recorded in the Australian Parliament's own division records this term, sourced directly from aph.gov.au independently of the voting-record data above.

We estimate Anika Wells received a parliamentary salary of: $376,850

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: $369,989
• Office Consumables and Services: $16,285
• Printing and Communications: $64,547
• Publications: $374
• Telephonic Services: $178
• Travel Allowance: $12,022
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $297
• Telecommunications - Usage: $265
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $4,837
• Parking: $157
• COMCAR: $4,132
• Parliamentary Duties: $-1,024
• Fares: $29,174
• Scheduled Commercial Transport: $-6,018
• Domestic Travel: $159,040
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $85,722

• ADF member ‘person of interest’ after ‘despicable betrayal of trust’ on Navy ship where camera found in women’s shower – as it happened
• Morning Mail: Dream cafe goes up in tobacco smoke; Russell Brand trial begins; and SA’s Michelin stars
• Trade minister says Coalition MPs walked out of meeting on EU trade deal – as it happened
• Climate protester restrained after interrupting NSW parliament – as it happened
• Joyce likens US public execution to ‘Roman amphitheatre’ – as it happened
• Australian government says online platforms have ‘responsibility’ to block US military execution live stream
• Greens prepare for fight with Labor over social media algorithm reform, with ‘pervert glasses’ in its sights
• Australia news live: NSW seeks to join Queensland in ‘from the river to the sea’ ban case – as it happened
• Workers on 13 Bathla sites stood down as funding runs out – as it happened
• Albanese plays down Trump’s ‘censorship’ warning over Labor social media crackdown

• Minister Anika Wells repays more than $10,000 after four travel claims found to have breached rules (2026-05-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Anika Wells has repaid more than $10,100, which includes a penalty, after an audit found she wrongly claimed travel expenses on four occasions.
• Anika Wells refers herself to independent watchdog over expenses affair (2025-12-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  The embattled communications minister’s $95,000 flights to New York, among other travel perks and expenses, will be investigated.
• Tighter travel rules may be on the way, after Albanese seeks advice from watchdog (2025-12-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appears to be starting to move towards some tightening of parliamentarians’ travel entitlements. After more than a week of controversy, Albanese on Friday said he had asked…
• Government to spend $11.3 billion over four years to fund 15% pay rise for aged care workers (2023-05-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers said that “for too long, those working in aged care have been asked to work harder for longer without enough reward, but with this budget that changes”
• View from The Hill: in awkward timing, government ends energy rebate as it defends Wells’ spendathon (2025-12-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Wells is the latest in a long line of politicians to find themselves falling foul not of the official entitlement rules, but the crucial pub test.
• Australia’s ‘digital duty of care’ was just introduced to parliament. So what’s in the bill? (2026-10-15)
  Kimberlee Weatherall, Christine Parker, Kath Albury
  This is a large and complex piece of legislation, and the government has made adjustments in response to expert feedback.
• Grattan on Friday: when rogue AI agent ‘scaled a fence’, it reinforced Albanese’s case for tough guardrails (2026-09-24)
  Michelle Grattan
  The timing of the disclosure (and the incident itself) is fortuitous in a political sense, vindicating the government’s recent AI warnings.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sarah Hanson-Young on the social media ban as a risky ‘fake silver bullet’ (2025-12-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Greens’ senator says she’s worried kids will end up ‘in other online spaces that are even darker and more dangerous’ – and Australia should act on other options.
• Government’s preventative detention for ex-detainees who pose serious risks set to pass this week (2023-12-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  New preventative detention legislation will be brought into the Senate as an amendment. The changes will allow the preventative detention of those who are considered a terrorist risk.
• Australians may soon be able to switch off social media algorithms. Is that censorship? (2026-09-08)
  Rob Nicholls
  The government’s proposed digital duty of care includes a mechanism for people to opt out of social media algorithms.
• Albanese government to include YouTube in social media ban for under-16s (2025-07-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Albanese government will include YouTube accounts in its ban on access to social media for those under the age of 16.
• Albanese government set to pass new media bargaining code (2026-08-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government and opposition have reached a deal on the hotly debated News Bargaining Incentive.
• Report on social media age assurance trial says there is not a one-size-fits-all solution (2025-08-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government’s trial has found age-assurance for its under-16 social media ban can be done, however admitting it can’t be one-size-fits-all.
• Three early January polls have Labor down, but disagree on One Nation’s vote (2026-01-13)
  Adrian Beaumont
  While Labor’s support has flagged since the Bondi terror attacks, support for One Nation appears to be continuing to rise.
• Vodafone has suffered another major outage. A telco expert explains what went wrong (2026-06-18)
  Mark A Gregory
  The nationwide outage highlights problems with how the network is designed.
• Attorney-General Rowland to repay some travel money; cost of government’s battery subsidy scheme explodes (2025-12-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  As the expenses affairs continues to roll through the Albanese government with Attorney-General Michelle Rowland needing to repay some of the money she billed taxpayers.
• Government’s aged care report proposes older Australians pay more but eschews a levy (2024-03-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  A government-instituted Aged Care Taskforce has recommended older Australians should pay more of the cost of their aged care, while steering clear of politically fraught options.
• The new national plan for sport has no measurable targets - exactly how politicians like it (2023-12-13)
  Anthony Veal
  The government has released a discussion paper for the latest national sport strategy. Will this one be more effective than previous attempts? Probably not.
• Details on how Australia’s social media ban for under-16s will work are finally becoming clear (2025-09-16)
  Lisa M. Given
  New guidance for tech companies outlines how the government expects them to keep young people off their services.
• The Paris Olympics celebrated the gender-equal games. The picture isn’t so rosy for women Paralympians (2024-08-28)
  Georgia Munro-Cook
  Just 19% of women with disability are regularly involved in organised sport, which is a big concern nine years before the Brisbane Paralympics.
• How exactly would a Triple Zero custodian help prevent a repeat of the fatal Optus outage? (2025-09-24)
  Rob Nicholls
  There is no certainty a custodian would have prevented all of the risks from the Optus outage last week. But it might have helped.
• ‘Fixing the aged care crisis’ won’t be easy, with just 5% of nursing homes above next year’s mandatory staffing targets (2022-06-07)
  Nicole Sutton, Nelson Ma
  Only a fraction of aged care homes currently have staffing levels above the new minimum ratios that will be mandatory from next year.
• Optus Triple Zero outage has left multiple people dead. A telecommunications expert explains what went wrong – and how to fix it (2025-09-22)
  Mark A Gregory
  The outage has sparked fury and condemnation – and builds the case for stronger action against telcos.
• All sides of politics backed ambitious gambling reforms. The government’s response is half-hearted at best (2026-05-13)
  Charles Livingstone
  Australia’s gambling epidemic will likely continue because the government has only half-heartedly agreed to do more to protect Australians.
• 4 in 10 nursing homes have a COVID outbreak and the death rate is high. What’s going wrong? (2022-07-28)
  Hal Swerissen
  Australia should have been better prepared for the predictable winter COVID wave in aged care.
• ‘What drugs do you want’? Senate inquiry allegations reveal the murky dangers of betting inducements (2026-08-04)
  Charles Livingstone
  Explosive allegations of betting inducements have been heard at a Senate inquiry into online gambling laws.
• Should the Optus chief quit? These 5 fixes would do far more to stop another 000 failure (2025-09-26)
  Helen Bird
  It may be tempting to call for the chief executive to be sacked, but it would only let Optus off the hook. This is how to really hold them to account this time.
• ‘Digital duty of care’ laws will force tech platforms to look after users (2026-09-08)
  Lisa M. Given
  The new bill puts the onus on tech platforms to protect Australians from harmful content and design features.
• eSafety boss wants YouTube included in the social media ban. But AI raises even more concerns for kids (2025-06-24)
  Tama Leaver
  AI is just one of the emerging threats online that won’t be tackled by the social media ban.
• Labor women make history by overtaking men in cabinet. So is the job done? (2025-05-25)
  Elise Stephenson, Blair Williams
  The Labor federal government will be the most diverse in history, driven by the influx of women members who outnumber the men in both caucus and cabinet.