Catherine King

We estimate Catherine King 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.

• Latest quarter total: $321,751
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $450
• Telecommunications - Usage: $600
• Printing and Communications: $74,179
• Publications: $814
• Office Consumables and Services: $37,742
• Travel Allowance: $13,408
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $5,747
• COMCAR: $17,761
• Fares: $26,914
• Domestic Travel: $103,427
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $40,707

• Hanson claims credit for immigration plans; PM arrives in Brunei – as it happened
• NSW promises more fast chargers and electric trucks in revamped EV policy
• Penny Wong calls failed peace talks between US and Iran ‘disappointing’ and urges resumption
• Chalmers warns of ‘more polarising politics’ – as it happened
• New relief for households being considered as Albanese government warns of ‘long tail’ from Iran war
• 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
• Malinauskas steps up One Nation attack ahead of SA election – as it happened
• PM calls national cabinet meeting over fuel crisis – as it happened
• UAE reopens airspace after Iran attack – as it happened

• FactCheck: Have average out-of-pocket costs for GP visits risen almost 20% under the Coalition? (2016-10-19)
  Anthony Scott
  Shadow minister for health and medicare Catherine King said under this government, average out-of-pocket costs for GP visits are up by almost 20%. Is that true?
• Grattan on Friday: Transport Minister Catherine King struggles to find a landing strip amid Qatar turbulence (2023-09-07)
  Michelle Grattan
  At a crack-of-dawn news conference at Canberra airport, King suggested the 2020 incident was a factor, although “there was no one factor that influenced my decision in relation to the national interest”.
• Election FactCheck: has the Coalition cut bulk-billing for pathology and scans ‘to make patients pay more’? (2016-06-27)
  Helen Dickinson
  Labor’s shadow health minister Catherine King, said that the government has “cut bulk-billing payments for pathology and diagnostic imaging to make patients pay more”. Is that right?
• Shorten government would end freeze on Medicare rebates (2016-05-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  A Labor government would restore the indexation of the Medicare Benefits Schedule from January, at a cost of $2.4 billion over the forward estimates.
• Airline ‘customer rights charter’ to specify when cash refunds required (2024-08-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  An “aviation industry ombuds scheme” and improved assistance for passengers with a disability will be among measures the federal government will announce to force airlines to act on public discontent.
• Senate committee says government should ‘immediately review’ its rejection of Qatar flights (2023-10-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  The inquiry’s report is sharply critical of Qantas, and has recommended the decision to block extra flights sought by Qatar Airways be immediately reviewed
• Two Labor frontbenchers urge Sam Dastyari to consider his position (2017-12-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  Sam Dastyari is again in hot water after allegations he pressed Tanya Plibersek not to meet an advocate for Chinese democracy in 2015.
• Budget deficit this financial year to be $36.9 billion (2022-10-24)
  Michelle Grattan
  Over the forward estimates, the budget bottom line is estimated to be $42 billion better than what was expected in March.
• What are the major parties promising on health this election? (2019-05-06)
  Stephen Duckett
  Labor and the Coalition’s health policies and campaign strategy couldn’t be more different this election.
• Grattan on Friday: When Labor states don’t dance to the Albanese government’s tune (2023-11-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  Infrastructure is always a vexed issue. The program is full of pork barrelling, whoever is in power. Even when that’s not involved, what to build and when it should be built is often contested.
• Grattan on Friday: Albanese government faces an uphill road and angry locals as it drives change to renewables (2023-09-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  Most people accept our energy system must move from fossil fuels, especially coal, to renewables as soon as practicable. But there are serious obstacles on the ground – literally.
• Grattan: Albanese’s government has questions to answer on competition (2023-08-24)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government has not been able to convincingly explain its decision to refuse Qatar Airways’ bid to expand its flights to Australia.
• New play American Signs looks at the nefarious world of consultancies – but leaves Australia off the hook (2024-06-20)
  Alana Lentin
  Anchuli Felicia King’s play American Signs at the Sydney Theatre Company thrusts us into the world of a campus hire at management consultancy ‘The Firm’.
• 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…
• Shorten for key role on Gonski as Rudd unveils his team (2013-07-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  Bill Shorten will take over the Education portfolio, with its challenge of securing the Gonski school funding reforms, and Tony Burke gets the poison chalice of Immigration, in Kevin Rudd’s extensive reshuffle…
• Albanese government looking to acquire Rex Airlines if buyer can’t be found (2025-02-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Albanese government will on Wednesday announce it is willing, as a last resort, to purchase the collapsed Rex Airlines.
• Mirabella scores spectacular own goal as she attempts Indi comeback (2016-04-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  Sophie Mirabella has delivered an early blow to her campaign to regain Indi with an unsubstantiated claim that the seat missed out on $10 million in hospital money because it elected Cathy McGowan.
• Some projects in $120 billion federal infrastructure pipeline set to be scrapped (2023-04-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  The infrastructure pipeline includes rail and road projects in the capitals as well as rail and road construction and upgrades in regional and outback areas
• Opt-out period for My Health Record extended (2018-11-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  The opt-out period for the controversial My Health Record scheme is being extended again – this time to January 31.
• Labor moves its scare campaign onto vaccination register (2016-06-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  Labor wants the government to guarantee it won’t fully privatise the new Australian Schools Vaccination Register.
• Election stays on tax and health battlegrounds (2019-04-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government has set out the tax benefit people in particular occupations would get in the long term under its plan, while Labor has announced funding for pathology from its cancer package.
• Eyes wide open: better monitoring can stop adverse reactions to vaccines (2011-05-25)
  Robert Booy
  Today the Gillard Government released an independent assessment of Australia’s management of vaccine adverse events. Commissioned by the Parliamentary Secretary for Health and Ageing, Catherine King, the…
• Estrogen can reduce risk of breast cancer for post menopausal women (2012-03-07)
  A study of women who took estrogen for about six years and then stopped has found they were less likely to develop breast cancer and die from the disease than those who never used hormone replacement therapy…
• Think potholes on our roads are getting worse? You’re right – and here’s why (2023-11-26)
  Marion Terrill, Natasha Bradshaw
  Our new research found Australia is spending $1 billion less on maintaining roads than we need – and the biggest reason for that gap is federal funding.
• Newspoll shows support for Albanese’s tax decision, as the PM defends his reputation as ‘an honest person’ (2024-02-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  Newspoll has found 62% of people surveyed believe the Albanese government did the right thing in reworking the stage 3 tax cuts.
• No matter how you fund it, medical research is a good investment (2014-05-14)
  Douglas Hilton
  The federal government has announced a $20 billion medical research future fund, which is expected to distribute $1 billion to research by 2022-23, doubling its direct medical research funding. The announcement…
• Dastyari quits the Senate after pressure over his China links (2017-12-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Sam Dastyari has given in to pressure from within his party and resigned from parliament, saying he had always acted with integrity.
• Business as usual… another review reports but will the TGA become more transparent? (2011-07-21)
  Susan Walters
  The latest report on Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) activities – this one concerning transparency – has just been made public, two weeks after it was submitted to the government. At least this…
• Should the food industry resign from the health department too? (2014-02-18)
  Christopher Mayes
  Furore over links between Assistant Minister for Health Fiona Nash’s office and industry continues today with revelations that her former chief of staff is connected to the alcohol, as well as the food…
• Report recommends overhaul of My Health Record, but key changes not supported by Coalition (2018-10-22)
  Robert Merkel
  The government has rejected a call to extend the My Health Record opt-out period while amendments are made to ensure the privacy and security of the system.