Bob Katter

We estimate Bob Katter 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: $303,895
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $1,984
• Telecommunications - Usage: $1,262
• Office Consumables and Services: $27,735
• Publications: $1,583
• Printing and Communications: $55,249
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $6,054
• COMCAR: $11,736
• Fares: $13,948
• Electorate Duties: $6,530
• Parliamentary Duties: $5,324
• Domestic Travel: $77,787
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $94,702

• Court rules identities of multiple survivors of Bondi attack cannot be published – as it happened
• WA minister says no evidence H5N1 bird flu has spread but samples from two sea birds being tested -as it happened
• Treasury secretary says ‘no clear evidence’ for CGT reform criticisms – as it happened
• Labor MP tells Coalition to ‘stop running scare campaigns’ over CGT changes – as it happened
• Liberal MP is first to be suspended from lower house in five years – as it happened
• PM says opposition ‘reduced to a farce’ as government targeted over CGT – as it happened
• ‘Dave is for Dave’: One Nation may gain its first elected MP in Farrer but would he survive in Hanson’s orbit?
• Queensland government scraps emissions target for Brisbane Olympics – as it happened
• ACCC calls emergency meeting with fuel suppliers – as it happened
• Can you watch without wincing? Seven times Australian politicians burst into song

• FactCheck: Is 30% of Northern Territory farmland and 22% of Tasmanian farmland foreign-owned? (2016-09-21)
  Erin Smith, Bill Pritchard
  Katter’s Australian Party federal MP Bob Katter said 30% of the Northern Territory’s farmland and 22% of Tasmania’s farmland is foreign-owned. Is that true?
• In the frame: Bob Katter’s controversial campaign ad might violate copyright (2012-03-13)
  David Brennan
  The two black and white photographs used in the Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) anti-gay marriage advertisement were sourced online from a stock photo aggregator. The photographs are taken by a Paris-based…
• Australia Party disappoints in Queensland but watch out for Katter in Canberra (2012-03-27)
  Paul Williams
  If the hype didn’t quite match that of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party back in 1997, it was certainly close enough. Much was expected of the big man in the even bigger hat at this year’s Queensland election…
• FactCheck: do Coles and Woolies control 80% of the market? (2013-07-07)
  Stephen King
  “The Americans are screaming blue murder because WalMart and their competitor have now reached about 23% market share. Here we have two supermarkets with a market share of over 80%, so if they decide to…
• Don’t write off the Mad Katter’s Tea Party (2011-11-02)
  Troy Whitford
  It would be foolish for anyone to underestimate Bob Katter’s Australia Party. Its brand of socially conservative views blended with economic and trade protectionism are not “far right” but rather proven…
• The swinging state: how Queensland is set to shape the federal election (2012-11-26)
  Rae Wear
  After a tumultuous first year in power for Campbell Newman’s Liberal National Party, Queensland now offers more hope for Julia Gillard at next year’s federal election. Which way the Sunshine State will…
• Bob Katter: the man with friends in odd places (2013-03-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Bob Katter, the colourful federal crossbencher from Queensland, does have the strangest bunch of friends. He and Kevin Rudd – whom Katter would like to see back as PM – are thick as thieves. And then there…
• Explainer: who are the independents and minor parties in the lower house? (2016-07-11)
  Tracee McPate, Robyn Hollander
  After a slim victory, how the Coalition works with the crossbench MPs will prove important to the success and stability of the Turnbull government.
• House of Representatives passes Voice referendum legislation, which is assured of Senate passage (2023-05-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  The final vote was 121 in favour and 25 against. The bill now goes to the Senate where it is assured of passage later this month
• Katter backs Turnbull, as credit agency puts Australia on notice (2016-07-07)
  Michelle Grattan
  Crossbencher Bob Katter has given his support on supply and confidence to a Coalition government after a meeting with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull in Brisbane.
• Turnbull wins more crossbench support as government’s numbers still to be finalised (2016-07-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Two more crossbenchers, Cathy McGowan and Andrew Wilkie, have given Malcolm Turnbull assurances they will back his government on supply and confidence.
• Meet North Queensland First, the party that wants to kill crocs and form a new state (2020-10-15)
  Claire Brennan
  Some north Queenslanders feel every inch of their distance from the state government in Brisbane. A new party is hoping to tap into that sentiment.
• Imported factoids should have no place in Australia’s gun control debates (2015-10-20)
  Samara McPhedran
  If we want to develop truly effective policies to reduce gun violence and its impacts on individuals, families and communities, we need to start basing Australian debate on Australian facts.
• Populism and the federal election: what can we expect from Hanson, Palmer, Lambie and Katter? (2022-04-11)
  Benjamin Moffitt
  Clive Palmer is back trying to win a Senate seat, while Jacqui Lambie is aiming to get a second senator elected.
• How the Palmer United Party came out barking (2013-09-09)
  Scott Prasser
  A funny thing happened at the polls in Queensland over the weekend. To great surprise, the two right-of-centre minor parties - Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and the recently-established Palmer United…
• The mice that may yet roar: who are the minor right-wing parties? (2013-08-28)
  Damon Alexander
  Pauline Hanson’s return to public life and the emergence of right-wing parties such as Katter’s Australian Party and the Rise Up Australia Party has rekindled interest in far-right politics in Australia…
• Barnaby Joyce gives some protection on Turnbull’s vulnerable right flank (2016-07-06)
  Michelle Grattan
  Within the Coalition the only cheer is among the Nationals who could actually gain one in their numbers at an election where the government has lost a swag of seats.
• Berlusconi, Katter and Assange: a very personal party (2013-04-15)
  Duncan McDonnell, Benjamin Moffitt
  We’ve never been to one or the other, but we presume that Silvio Berlusconi’s and Bob Katter’s house parties are pretty different affairs. Their political parties are another matter, however. The former…
• Real problem, wrong solution: why the Nationals shouldn’t politicise the science replication crisis (2019-09-24)
  Martin Bush, Alex O. Holcombe, Bonnie Claire Wintle, Fiona Fidler, Simine Vazire
  Across science, only around half of published results can be successfully replicated. But while this is a serious problem, the proposed public audit looks like a political bid to cast doubt on science.
• Indigenous cultural appropriation: what not to do (2017-11-28)
  Angelina Hurley
  The production of fake First Nations art is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to cultural appropriation. From ‘didge therapy’ to the overuse of words like ‘deadly’ here’s a (subjective) guide to what to avoid.
• Palmer misses the party as PUPs struggle to be heard in Queensland (2015-01-18)
  Donna Weeks
  It’s been a surprisingly muted campaign from the Palmer United Party (PUP) ahead of Queensland’s January 31 poll – and on Sunday, the man who started it all couldn’t even make it to his own party. At the…
• Graeme Samuel: We’ve lost principled, analytical debate in this country (2012-04-25)
  Stephen King
  What happens when two of Australia’s best known former competition regulators sit down together and talk about the world? A wide-ranging discussion on the state of Australia’s political debate, xenophobia…
• Undecided Queensland voters disillusioned with Palaszczuk, suspicious of Nicholls (2017-11-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Undecided voters are dismayed by the quality of Queensland’s political leadership.
• Is Campbell Newman’s Queensland election strategy in trouble? (2012-03-07)
  Clive Bean
  The Liberal National Party chose an unconventional strategy when it decided make former Lord Mayor of Brisbane Campbell Newman its leader. Newman needs to win a seat in the Queensland parliament if he…
• North Queensland’s powerful trio will shake up the state (2015-05-04)
  Allan Dale
  Three north Queensland MPs representing just 3% of the state’s population will wield huge power in Queensland’s parliament when it resumes on Tuesday.
• Live blog: Michelle Grattan (2013-03-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle Grattan’s live updates on a dramatic day in Canberra. 2:10pm: The federal opposition leader Tony Abbott moves to suspend standing orders for a vote of confidence. The fate of the government in…
• Michelle Grattan’s blog on ALP Leadership spill (2013-06-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  1:10pm: Labor’s leadership showdown is now rapidly approaching, with a petition circulating among caucus members asking for a special meeting. The Rudd supporters need one third of the caucus to get a…
• ‘At Home With Julia’ exposes obsession with personality over policy (2011-09-14)
  Robert Phiddian
  Does the ABC’s new hit series At Home With Julia demonstrate an unreconstructed sexism in Australian political satire? Should we be cringing at our cultural immaturity again? If the 2010 Election (or subsequent…
• Day 10: Queensland preference negotiations crucial for Katter Party’s senate hopes (2013-08-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  Preferences are the auxiliary batteries of politics. They give an extra boost to supplement parties’ and candidates’ primary power supplies. Their bestowal or denial can make the difference between political…
• Final House results and a polling critique (2016-08-17)
  Adrian Beaumont
  At the election held on 2 July, the Coalition won a bare majority of 76 of the 150 House seats, to 69 for Labor and five crossbenchers, representing a net loss of 14 seats for the Coalition and a net 14…