Anthony Burke

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 Anthony Burke 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.

Expenses data not available for this period.

• Family of slain teen calls for death penalty in murder trial of singer D4vd
• D4vd hearing details high hopes and brutal end of girl at heart of murder case
• Singer D4vd had impregnated teenager he is accused of fatally stabbing
• Prosecutors say blood stains on objects in D4vd’s home probably of victim
• Possible bloodstains were detected at D4vd’s home, LA police officers testify
• LA prosecutors present gruesome evidence in murder case against singer D4vd
• Anthony Burke: ‘It won’t be uncommon in 20 years to have four houses sharing one back yard’
• Prosecutors release detailed description of how D4vd allegedly killed teen girl
• D4vd possessed child sexual abuse images, LA murder prosecutors say
• ‘Beloved daughter, sister, cousin, friend’: will D4vd’s arrest for murder bring justice for Celeste Rivas Hernandez?

• Paola Antonelli interview: ‘Design has been misconstrued as decoration’ (2013-12-05)
  Anthony Burke
  Paola Antonelli, a senior curator and director of research and development at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), caused a minor art world storm when she added videogames to the official collection…
• Security council win a golden opportunity to fix national security at home (2012-10-19)
  Anthony Burke
  Australia’s successful campaign to win a two year seat on the UN Security Council is welcome news. While much of the commentary has focused on the domestic politics or the diplomacy of the bid, security…
• The war won’t end Iran’s nuclear program – it will drive it underground, following North Korea’s model (2025-06-24)
  Anthony Burke
  The US and Israel bombing campaigns may only delay an Iranian bomb by a few years. Could this signal the death of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty?
• Review: CUSP – Designing into the Next Decade (2014-03-31)
  Anthony Burke
  Designers today are impatient for their work to expand into a larger world. They are testing their expertise in complex and non-traditional fields such as finance, conflict, health and disease; growing…
• Without Indigenous leadership, attempts to stop the tide of destruction against nature will fail (2022-12-13)
  Zsofia Korosy, Anthony Burke, Daniel Robinson, Katie Moon, Michelle Lim, Miri (Margaret) Raven
  Almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world’s extraordinary loss of the variety of life at the COP15 nature summit in Canada. Here’s why Indigenous involvement is crucial.
• Human progress is no excuse to destroy nature. A push to make ‘ecocide’ a global crime must recognise this fundamental truth (2021-08-31)
  Anthony Burke, Danielle Celermajer
  The push for a new environmental crime has attracted high-profile backers including French President Emmanuel Macron, Pope Francis and Greta Thunberg. But we must get the details right.
• Politics for the planet: why nature and wildlife need their own seats at the UN (2016-06-30)
  Anthony Burke, Stefanie Fishel
  The world has global authorities for trade and security, but not for threats to the environment. It’s time the natural world got its own version of the World Trade Organisation or UN Security Council.
• Government to legislate for multi-employer bargaining, strengthening push for wage increases (2022-09-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government will bring in early legislation for multi-employer bargaining and implement a range of other changes to the industrial relations system.
• Albanese government sets unchanged 185,000 intake under permanent migration program (2025-09-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  Immigration Minister Tony Burke announced the figure amid a fresh divisive debate about immigration, intensified by the weekend marches calling for lower numbers.
• 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.
• UNSW
  UNSW
  Anthony Burke is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a principal at the Planet Politics Institute. He worked as a Principal…
• Grattan on Friday: Albanese government mugged by gas crisis as it faces challenge of managing expectations (2022-06-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  Labor knew it would inherent a cost-of-living problem – it campaigned on it. But it didn’t expect the dramatic crisis in gas prices Australia is suddenly facing
• Expert view: bin Laden’s death a boon for Obama (2011-05-02)
  Sunanda Creagh
  Osama bin Laden, the leader of global militant network al-Qaeda, has been killed in Pakistan by a small team of U.S. operatives, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday. Experts comment on the significance…
• Friday essay: how Australia’s ‘invasion novels’ have reflected our cultural anxieties around race (2026-09-17)
  Felicity Castagna
  Foreign ‘invasion plots’ have featured in Australian literature for more than a century. Though critiqued by some authors, fears of white erasure endure.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tony Burke advocates on wages and arts (2022-06-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle Grattan speaks with Tony Burke the minister for employment and workplace relations and minister for the arts, as well as the leader of the House of Representatives.
• Albanese promises National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs and pivots towards the modern and mainstream in new cultural policy (2023-01-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  The policy, called Revive and funded by $286 million over four years, establishes Creative Australia which will be the government’s principle arts investment and advisory body
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Treasurer Jim Chalmers on the ‘spiky’ parts of Australia’s inflation problem (2022-05-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle Grattan speaks with the New Treasurer Jim Chalmers as he intends to deliver a "pretty blunt, pretty frank" assessment of Australia's challenges to parliament soon after it returns
• Scott Morrison to face parliamentary censure for undermining political trust (2022-11-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  The opposition will vote against the censure, but will support the legislation to implement the Bell recommendations to ensure ministerial appointments are always made public.
• Granting visas to enter Australia is a delicate balancing act - whether you’re a politician or not (2025-08-20)
  Danielle Ireland-Piper
  Australia’s process of granting (and cancelling) visas is back in the spotlight. It’s a complicated issue, both legally and politically.
• Leadership talk flares, as Ipsos poll shows big swing in Canning (2015-09-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Leadership tensions are set to overshadow the final week of the Canning byelection campaign.
• May budget to boost cultural and historical institutions with $535m four-year injection (2023-04-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government also promises that beyond the four years, the institutions will get indexed funding
• UNSW
  UNSW
  Anthony Burke is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a principal at the Planet Politics Institute. He worked as a Principal…
• Grattan on Friday: Albanese doesn’t believe in admitting he’s stuffed up, and it costs him (2026-08-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas flourishes where Albanese flounders.
• New home affairs minister Tony Burke heads to Indonesia to tackle terrorism and people smuggling (2024-07-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  The minister will also co-chair a meeting on counter terrorism and transnational security.
• Envoy’s plan to fight antisemitism would put universities on notice over funding (2025-07-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  The plan is broad, also covering security, law enforcement, and online regulation among other areas. But it is unclear how much of it the government will take up.
• View from The Hill: Albanese appoints Tony Burke to neutralise immigration issues and sends Clare O'Neil to grapple with housing crisis (2024-07-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  The prime minister has made changes that will strengthen his team ahead if the next election, though not as many as he might have, given factional constraints.
• Shorten gives science, small business personal priority (2013-10-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  Opposition leader Bill Shorten will take specific responsibility for science and small business and Stephen Conroy becomes spokesman for defence in Labor’s new frontbench lineup. Announcing his allocation…
• View from The Hill: Chris Minns makes sense on ISIS brides’ children, while opposition adds to scaremongering (2026-02-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  Chris Minns provides clarity on the issue of ISIS brides while the government and opposition tie themselves in knots.
• Yes, this tax rise really is for the public good (2013-07-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government is already making a virtue out of one of the “hits” that will raise billions in its economic statement. And it’s got a good case. Tobacco excise will go up. Of course the government would…
• Grattan on Friday: how two once hot-button issues this week barely sparked media and political interest (2025-07-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  Two vexed issues – how Australia manages immigration detainees with criminal records, and balancing free speech vs hate speech – once dominated news headlines. Not anymore.
• Newspoll shows tight race in Canning, with big swing to Labor (2015-08-19)
  Adrian Beaumont
  Following the death in late July of WA Liberal MP Don Randall, a by-election was ordered in his seat of Canning on the 19 September. A Newspoll has the Liberals just ahead by 51-49, representing an 11…
• Internet Archive’s digital library has been found in breach of copyright. The decision has some important implications (2023-08-23)
  Agata Mrva-Montoya
  The legal ruling against the Internet Archive has come down in favour of the rights of authors.
• UNSW
  UNSW
  Anthony Burke is Professor of Environmental Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and a principal at the Planet Politics Institute. He worked as a Principal…