Anne Webster

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 Anne Webster 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: $192,075
• Parliamentary Duties: $-4,455
• Electorate Duties: $15,214
• Official Duties: $-1,866
• Office Consumables and Services: $14,376
• Printing and Communications: $26,200
• Publications: $658
• Telephonic Services: $2,061
• Travel Allowance: $10,604
• Telecommunications - Usage: $645
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $4,230
• COMCAR: $1,334
• Fares: $13,371
• Scheduled Commercial Transport: $1,268
• Domestic Travel: $50,815
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $57,622

• ADF member ‘person of interest’ after ‘despicable betrayal of trust’ on Navy ship where camera found in women’s shower – as it happened
• Australian fashion brands Cue and Veronika Maine face collapse after ‘difficult period’ – as it happened
• Another Australian found safe after Nepal-Tibet floods – as it happened
• O’Neil condemns Bragg’s ‘crazed’ press club speech – as it happened
• SA police investigating death during Telstra outage – as it happened
• Court rules identities of multiple survivors of Bondi attack cannot be published – as it happened
• Husic says Labor pile-on after Aukus criticism ‘not healthy’ – as it happened
• Taylor vows to run coal ‘long and hard’ and scrap EV concessions in budget reply – as it happened
• PM pledges to ‘do everything we can to protect Australia’ amid Iran fuel crisis – as it happened
• Queensland government scraps emissions target for Brisbane Olympics – as it happened

• Anthony Albanese now level with Scott Morrison as ‘better PM’: Newspoll (2022-03-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Anthony Albanese is now level with Scott Morrison as “better prime minister” for the first time in more than two years in Newspoll, as Labor retains its 55-45% two-party lead.
• Regional journalism is dying: advertising subsidies won’t help (2022-04-21)
  Leon Gettler
  Australia’s regional news outlets are dying a not-so-slow death, and COVID-19 has accelerated their decline.
• No, Twitter is not censoring Donald Trump. Free speech is not guaranteed if it harms others (2021-01-12)
  Katharine Gelber
  The suggestion Trump has been censored is simply wrong. It misleads the public into believing all ‘free speech’ claims have equal merit. They do not.
• Wind in Albanese’s sails as Chalmers weighs options (2019-05-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  Jim Chalmers, from the right of the Labor party, has been receiving support from those who believe the party needs generational change.
• 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.
• Grattan on Friday: The Coalition is trapped in its coal minefield (2019-03-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  The week highlighted, yet again, that instead of a credible energy policy, the government has only confusion and black holes.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Michael McCormack moves on from his near-death experience (2020-02-06)
  Michelle Grattan
  On this podcast, the Nationals leader defends his new frontbench line up against criticism it's short on women, mounts a strong pitch in favour of coal, and rejects claims that he's a weak leader.
• With commercial galleries an endangered species, are art fairs a necessary evil? (2019-05-14)
  Sasha Grishin
  Embarrassed directors of well-established commercial art galleries will quietly confess that often they scarcely get more than a dozen visitors a day. Can art fairs help fill the void?
• Summer reading guide from The Conversation’s business & economics writers (2016-12-25)
  Janine Dixon, Beth Webster, Gigi Foster, Rodney Maddock, Ross Guest, Tim Harcourt
  A handful of our business economics writers share the favourite books they read this year.
• Explainer: what is the challenge to Bob Day’s Senate seat all about? (2016-11-02)
  Anne Twomey
  Changes to Senate voting laws and the particular case of Senator Bob Day make for an unprecedented constitutional tangle, and one that will change the make-up of the Senate.
• Deep cultural shifts required: open letter from 500 legal women calls for reform of way judges are appointed and disciplined (2020-07-06)
  Gabrielle Appleby
  In an open letter to Attorney-General Christian Porter, more than 500 women working in the law from across Australia have sought changes to the way judges are disciplined and appointed.
• Friday essay: How Shakespeare helped shape Germaine Greer’s feminist masterpiece (2016-05-26)
  Rachel A. Buchanan
  The Greer archives brim with notebooks and papers from her time as a student of the traditional humanities. And reading The Female Eunuch for evidence of the Bard reveals a new kind of book, one that is deeply informed by this scholarship.
• Coalition tensions expose the flaws of the same-sex marriage plebiscite (2016-01-28)
  Adam Webster
  It is easy to envisage a number of arguments that MPs might use in an attempt to justify ignoring the result of a same-sex marriage plebiscite and voting contrary to its result.
• Explainer: can the Senate block the budget? (2014-05-19)
  Adam Webster
  In the days since the Abbott government released its first budget, the Labor Party, the Greens and the Palmer United Party have all said they will block parts of it in the Senate. Threats to block the…
• What will Serena wear next? Sport and fashion at the Australian Open (2012-01-20)
  Karen Webster
  Serena Williams creates a stir in the crowd. There is a buzz in the stadium as she is expected to emerge from the rooms out to the net. The excitement is not related to her skill, talent or professionalism…
• An open letter from 1,200 Australian academics on the Djab Wurrung trees (2020-11-04)
  Peta Malins, Crystal McKinnon, Kim Kruger, Paola Balla
  After the Directions Tree was cut down last week, Australian academics - both Indigenous and non-Indigenous - have come together in ‘sorrow and anger’.
• What Betsy Ross’ real story tells us about women’s work in the Revolution − and why it still matters 250 years later (2026-03-23)
  Marla Miller
  Betsy Ross probably did not sew the first American flag, but she was one of many craftswomen whose wartime labor helped build a nation.
• Hilary Mantel was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more (2022-09-23)
  Dinah Birch
  A short guide to the Wolf Hall author’s remarkably varied back catalogue.
• Lovecraft Country: HBO series brings new life to America’s weirdest horror writer (2020-08-14)
  Guy Stephen Webster
  By focusing on African Americans’ experiences of racism in the 1950s, the new series aims to address HP Lovecraft’s racist views.
• Moby-Dick doesn’t deserve the ‘difficult’ label – this sea romance was once loved by office workers, sailors and children (2025-06-03)
  Edward Sugden
  Early readers knew Moby-Dick for what it was: an extreme and ambitious form of popular genre fiction.