Anne Ruston

We estimate Anne Ruston received a parliamentary salary of: $442,650

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: $129,771
• Printing and Communications: $4,212
• Office Consumables and Services: $2,504
• Travel Allowance: $9,742
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $822
• Telecommunications - Usage: $1,223
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $2,017
• COMCAR: $4,562
• Official Duties: $234
• Parliamentary Duties: $1,268
• Fares: $19,048
• Domestic Travel: $64,059
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $20,080

• OECD says Australia should increase EV and renewable energy take up amid fuel crisis – as it happened
• Ben Roberts-Smith won’t see full brief of war crime allegations for months – as it happened
• Australians ‘uneasy’ about NDIS cuts amid $53bn in new defence spending, Mark Butler concedes
• Labor backs Greens inquiry into gas export tax – as it happened
• One Nation wins at least one SA seat as Liberals consider ‘sobering lessons’ from election defeat
• Liberals have ‘a lot of work to do’ after SA wipeout, Anne Ruston says – As it happened
• Pocock repeats calls for 25% tax on gas exports – as it happened
• ‘Stuff of nightmares’: calls for help surge by 50% after Australia launches aged-assistance tool
• Sky goes dark but a new dawn awaits at News Corp's Holt Street studios | Weekly Beast
• Labor approves 4.41% increase for health insurance premiums – as it happened

• Election FactCheck: is it true no solely managed Commonwealth fishery is subject to overfishing? (2016-06-10)
  Caleb Gardner
  Was Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources Anne Ruston right to say that no solely-managed Commonwealth fishery is subject to overfishing?
• Albanese government to bring forward home care packages in major backdown (2025-09-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  Some 20,000 home care packages will be brought forward to be delivered before the end of October.
• 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.
• All Australians will be able to access telehealth under new $1.1 billion coronavirus program (2020-03-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  Scott Morrison will unveil a $1.1 billion package to make Medicare telehealth services available during the coronavirus pandemic and to support mental health, domestic violence and community services.
• View from The Hill: New poll brings dreadful news for Ley, another boost for One Nation (2026-02-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  As the polls slump continues for the Liberals, Angus Taylor is semi-openly rounding up the numbers to challenge Sussan Ley’s leadership.
• 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.
• Sussan Ley fills frontbench holes temporarily, giving a brief window for Nationals to rethink Coalition split (2026-01-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  With a final reshuffle of the shadow ministry put off for another week, Ley has left the door for political reunification firmly open.
• View from The Hill: Morrison a ‘psycho’ – now who would have said that? (2022-02-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  A flurry of categorical denials has followed the report that a current Liberal cabinet minister described Scott Morrison as a “psycho” in a text exchange with then NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian
• 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.
• It’s Newstart pay rise day. You’re in line for 24 cents, which is peanuts (2019-09-19)
  Peter Martin
  Newstart increases are projected to get smaller and smaller relative to pension increases. By the end of the century Newstart will be just two fifths of the pension.
• We need a national plan to address family violence against Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people (2021-09-14)
  Bronwyn Carlson
  The recent Women’s Safety Summit highlighted Australia’s problem with gender-based violence. However, violence experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women is still not being addressed.
• Crucial Super Saturday Labor victories a major fillip for Shorten (2018-07-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  The results are a deep disappointment for the government, which had hoped it might snatch at least one of the Braddon or Longman, and had hopes of winning Mayo although it quickly gave these up.
• 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.
• View from The Hill: Breaking Pauline Hanson’s ‘strike’ has taken skin off Bridget McKenzie (2019-10-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  Following a deal with Hanson, some Queensland NSW Nationals were so furious that a leak canvassed mutterings about the possibility of a “spill” move against deputy leader Bridget McKenzie.
• There are lots of poverty lines, and JobSeeker isn’t above any of them (2021-03-30)
  Ben Phillips
  With cuts to JobKeeper and JobSeeker set to bite, Social Services Minister Anne Ruston has cast doubt over the idea of a poverty line.
• View from The Hill: The Liberals may fell Sussan Ley but she won’t make it easy for Taylor and Hastie (2025-11-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  While Sussan Ley’s leadership remains under pressure, she isn’t giving any indication that she’s given up yet.
• Drugs don’t affect job seeking, so let’s offer users help rather than take away their payments (2019-09-09)
  Nicole Lee
  There’s no evidence drug use is a barrier to job seeking. And testing can’t distinguish between one off, irregular or regular use.
• More funding promised to men’s behaviour change programs, but we’re still not sure they work (2020-02-24)
  Rebecca Stewart, Breanna Wright
  The Australian government has committed funding to men’s behaviour change programs in the wake of the murder of Hannah Clarke and her children – but what are they and do they work?
• View from The Hill: Dutton tries to neutralise health issue by saying, ‘we’ll do just what Labor does’ (2025-02-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  Peter Dutton has launched a game of one-upmanship after Albanese at the weekend unveiled Labor’s $8.5 billion health policy that promises near universal bulk billing
• Nationals break the Coalition, in a major blow to Sussan Ley (2025-05-20)
  Michelle Grattan
  Leader of the Nationals David Littleproud formally announced an end of the Coalition agreement.
• Jostling underway in Nationals for post-Truss era (2015-10-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  A rather arcane argument this week about responsibility for water in his government might have given Malcolm Turnbull cause for pause.
• Why is the government trying to make the cashless debit card permanent? Research shows it does not work (2020-11-12)
  Elise Klein
  The Morrison government has introduced a bill to parliament to make the cashless debit card trial ‘ongoing’.
• View from The Hill: When Australia’s first law officer is in the dock of public opinion (2020-11-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  Overnight, Christian Porter had been reduced from high-flying attorney-general to a man forced to publicly confront a nightmare episode of “This is Your Life” delivered by Monday’s Four Corners.
• View from The Hill: Ten women in shadow cabinet, and Nationals grab trade job (2022-06-05)
  Michelle Grattan
  Opposition leader Peter Dutton and Nationals leader David Littleproud announce the Coalition’s shadow ministry
• View from The Hill: Angus Taylor appoints Tim Wilson as part of a new-look Liberal economic team (2026-02-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has appointed Tim Wilson to go head-to-head as shadow treasurer against the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers.
• ‘An insult’ – politicians sing the praises of the cashless welfare card, but those forced to use it disagree (2019-09-16)
  Eve Vincent
  The lived experience of the lead-grey cashless debit card is a world away from the black-and-white impressions of federal politicians.
• Grattan on Friday: Coalition backs Labor’s heavy lifting on aged care, hoping to reap the benefit down the track (2024-09-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government’s changes to the NDIS and it’s endorsement of aged care reforms, Peter Dutton is calculating it’s easier for Labor than the Coalition to find big savings that produce serious “losers”
• Turnbull has moved beyond the Howard era in some respects, and returned to it in others (2015-09-20)
  Michelle Grattan
  Malcolm Turnbull has gone for broke in his dramatic overhaul of the Coalition team. The new prime minister is using this moment of high authority to “renew” to the max – unlike Tony Abbott’s ill-judged…
• With Bishop gone, Morrison and Payne face significant challenges on foreign policy (2018-08-28)
  Susan Harris Rimmer
  Morrison has his work cut out for him restoring Australia’s reputation for good governance overseas and repairing relations with China.
• View from The Hill: Morrison sets up his own women’s network but will it produce the policy goods? (2021-03-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  With his cabinet reshuffle Scott Morrison hopes to make his “women’s problems” a whole-of-government challenge.