Carol Brown

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 Carol Brown 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: $134,007
• Printing and Communications: $27,632
• Office Consumables and Services: $6,639
• Publications: $273
• Telephonic Services: $412
• Telecommunications - Usage: $328
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $297
• Travel Allowance: $6,295
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $4,037
• COMCAR: $1,917
• Fares: $10,245
• Domestic Travel: $13,312
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $62,621

• Flight of the Conchords’ US reunion brings needed joy: ‘Grateful you accepted people from outside your country’
• Death in custody investigated – as it happened
• Labor on track for huge majority after landslide win – as it happened
• NSW Labor rejects conference motion to repeal anti-protest and youth bail laws – as it happened
• Cabinet contenders circle as Giles expected to be moved out of immigration in reshuffle
• Shorten and Coalition MPs clash over NDIS fraud – as it happened
• ABC boss hits out at ‘vicious attacks’ on Tingle – as it happened
• Amy Gillett Foundation for cyclist safety to close after federal funds cut off
• PM says cost-of-living relief ‘number one priority’ – as it happened
• Firefighters battle blazes in Queensland and NSW – as it happened

• Bob Brown resigns: what next for the Greens? (2012-04-13)
  Carol Johnson
  In a surprise move, Senator Bob Brown has resigned as leader of the Australian Greens and has been replaced by his former deputy Christine Milne. Brown will step down from his Senate seat in June. He has…
• Shorten provides Kim Carr with life raft (2016-07-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  Bill Shorten has found a way to keep Kim Carr in Labor’s shadow ministry by expanding his frontbench – to the fury of the left, which had withdrawn support for the Victorian senator.
• 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.
• Re-Designing the Conference (2015-08-31)
  Elizabeth Dori Tunstall
  I recently concluded the Americas Cultures-Based Innovation (CBI) Symposium, co-hosted by the Banff Centre in Calgary, Canada. Being the third time that I have co-organised a CBI Symposium, I now know…
• We’ve told this story for 2,500 years: how Hadestown playfully brings alive an ancient Greek myth (2025-02-17)
  Louise Pryke
  Based on a myth first told in Greece over 2,500 years ago, Hadestown, now playing in Sydney, is a modern retelling of the story of lovers Orpheus and Eurydice.
• Home alone feeling scrooged? These Christmas movies deserve some love, actually (2015-12-16)
  Ari Mattes
  From Hallmark to Hulk Hogan, we round up classic Christmas cinema. If you’re looking for sweet, schmaltzy or satirical December viewing, start here.
• Festering families, difficult truths and transcendent grace: best podcasts of 2025 (2025-12-15)
  Siobhan McHugh
  From Australia and around the world, here are the podcast gems of 2025.
• In defence of grammar pedantry (2017-06-02)
  Roslyn Petelin
  Grammar pedantry recently contributed to the downfall of World Bank chief economist Paul Romer. But ‘grammonds’ are people to be celebrated not vilified.
• ‘We are all lumped under one umbrella of hate’: when social attitudes change, what is life like for people who don’t agree? (2025-05-22)
  Carol Ballantine, Kath Browne
  Academic research on changing social norms relating to gender and sexuality is largely silent on how these changes can affect those who ‘do not agree’.
• Number cruncher named university teacher of the year (2013-11-20)
  Professor John Croucher has won the Prime Minister’s University Teacher of the Year award. Croucher, a professor of statistics at Macquarie University’s Graduate School of Management, received the award…
• Naughty, often naked, deeply wild: F Christmas is a joyous gift at the time we need it most (2024-12-13)
  Sarah Austin
  This year, Malthouse Theatre brings audiences a new kind of Christmas variety show: F Christmas is a camp Christmas pageant.
• Friday essay: from convicts to contemporary convictions – 200 years of Australian crime fiction (2018-07-12)
  Stephen Knight
  Australia’s rich tradition of crime fiction is little known – early tales told of bushrangers and convicts, one hero was a mining engineer turned amateur detective – but it reveals a range of national myths and fantasies.
• From Mumbai to Perth and beyond, Neha Kale considers, art, colonialism and ideas of home (2026-09-21)
  Joanna Mendelssohn
  Neha Kale’s A Foreign Return: on art and habitation is an unusual blend of memoir and art criticism, spanning continents and time.
• My favourite fictional character: the crazed, compelling voice of William Trevor’s 40something photographer Ivy Eckdorf (2022-12-25)
  Carol Lefevre
  John Banville calls Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill’s Hotel, ‘an inexplicably neglected 20th-century masterpiece’. Carol Lefevre shares her fascination with William Trevor’s ‘crazed’ photographer Ivy Eckdorf.
• Barbara Trapido’s ‘undeniably sexy’ novel of academic bohemia still dazzles at 40 (2022-05-23)
  Carol Lefevre
  This brainy feminist romp of a novel, loved by Rachel Cusk and Maria Semple, is often compared to Brideshead Revisited. But Carol Lefevre says it’s more like a sexy, sweary version of Nancy Mitford in 1960s London.
• New Year’s reconciliations: Un-doing the New Year’s resolution (2015-01-01)
  Elizabeth Dori Tunstall
  Happy Solar New Year 2015! Don’t ask me what my New Year’s resolutions are this year. I stopped preparing resolutions because, as a ritual, it seemed to focus too much on imposing the will upon that which…
• Top of the festive pops: the Christmas songs we can’t resist (2013-12-18)
  Liz Giuffre
  Christmas songs can do more than torture retail staff trapped in department stores; they can also be important players in popular music history. One of the most iconic Christmas songs, Bing Crosby’s 1942…
• Friday essay: 10 photography exhibitions that defined Australia (2021-09-02)
  Daniel Palmer, Martyn Jolly
  From the Intercolonial Exhibition in 1866 to a landmark show, a century later, in which Aboriginal photographers displayed their works, photography has shaped the nation.
• Less secrecy could help astronomy stop the bullying and harassment within its ranks (2016-11-22)
  Michael J. I. Brown
  Allegations of abuse within CSIRO’s astronomy division reveal how it can damage lives and careers. Much of this was hidden from view, including from friends and colleagues.
• With friends like Julia: the strategy behind Labor’s attack on the Greens (2011-04-08)
  Carol Johnson
  Julia Gillard controversially claimed in her recent Whitlam oration that “the Greens will never embrace Labor’s delight at sharing the values of everyday Australians, in our cities, suburbs, towns and…
• Stella Prize 2020: a readers’ guide to the contenders (2020-03-26)
  Camilla Nelson
  The books chosen as finalists in this year’s Stella Prizes can help us draw on our innate resources. We can seek inner truths and explore ways to support each other thanks to these gifted writers.
• So you’re going to school online – here are 6 ways to make the most of it (2020-04-17)
  Dr Claire Brown, Rannah Scamporlino
  Schools are online and many students may find this new learning environment challenging. But organising your time and taking effective notes can help students learn better.
• Friday essay: public ‘pash ons’ and angry dads – personal politics started with consciousness-raising feminists. Now, everyone’s doing it (2024-07-18)
  Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow, Robert Reynolds
  Personal activism has achieved major legislative change, such as no-fault divorce and the decriminalisation of homosexuality and abortion. But it’s also used by groups who want to reverse that change.
• Australia is to have a poet laureate – how will the first appointment define us as a nation? (2023-01-30)
  Valentina Gosetti
  The concept of a national poet laureate has a long history. The establishment of an official Australian position represents an unmissable opportunity.
• Australia’s new national space agency will help students reach for the stars in STEM (2017-09-29)
  Carol Oliver
  Space inspires, and the establishment of a Space Agency in Australia is well positioned to drive engagement in STEM.
• Green - black conflict over gas development in the Kimberley: a sign of things to come? (2011-10-17)
  Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh
  Conflict between Indigenous (“Black”) and environmental (“Green”) groups is a growing feature of Australia’s political landscape. This has been highlighted by very public disputes over Wild Rivers legislation…
• 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’.
• Un-designing Knee-hugger Elves: Class, Multi-culturalism, and the Globalisation of Christmas Kitsch (2013-12-25)
  Elizabeth Dori Tunstall
  “I remember having to use shoe polish to colour in the faces,” my Aunt Jill recalls, when I ask her about the “black-faced” knee-hugger elves that adorned my Grandmother’s fireplace mantel. Knee-hugger…
• 75 Christmas Films Worth Watching (2016-12-21)
  Lauren Rosewarne
  January this year, my best friend was pottering around my apartment, readying for work. “So what’s on for today?” he asked me. I rolled my eyes. “What is it that you think I do all day?” I asked. He gestured…
• Friday essay: on birds — feathered messengers from deep time (2021-09-30)
  Delia Falconer
  Birds have always been charged with carrying the burden of our feelings, writes Delia Falconer. Yet we’ve never treated these inscrutable, vivacious companions particularly well.