Dan Tehan

We estimate Dan Tehan received a parliamentary salary of: $299,090

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: $238,085
• Printing and Communications: $66,666
• Publications: $755
• Office Consumables and Services: $10,933
• Parking: $2,376
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $11,040
• COMCAR: $2,080
• Travel Allowance: $20,507
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $341
• Telecommunications - Usage: $797
• Fares: $18,974
• Domestic Travel: $50,062
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $53,555

• One Nation wins fourth seat in SA – as it happened
• ‘Uncertain times’: Albanese warns months ahead ‘may not be easy’ in rare address to nation about Middle East crisis
• PM pledges to ‘do everything we can to protect Australia’ amid Iran fuel crisis – as it happened
• Anonymous $200,000 donation to charity providing free meals – as it happened
• Labor backs Greens inquiry into gas export tax – as it happened
• Dozens of Sydney suburbs urged to reduce water use after major main bursts – as it happened
• Queensland government scraps emissions target for Brisbane Olympics – as it happened
• Albanese government could increase ethanol level in fuel as farmers warn about food prices
• Australia lowers diesel standards in bid to increase supply as number of service stations running empty surges
• Australia Post hikes delivery companies’ fuel surcharge – as it happened

• View from The Hill: Yes Prime Minister… Dan Tehan withdraws his attack on Daniel Andrews’ leadership (2020-05-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  Scott Morrison was on the ball – and quickly on the phone. Hardly had education minister Dan Tehan finished giving Victorian premier Daniel Andrews a bollocking on the ABC’s Insiders than he received a…
• Dan Tehan wants a ‘model code’ on free speech at universities – what is it and do unis need it? (2019-06-23)
  Katharine Gelber, Kristine Bowman
  The pressure for universities to take action on free speech may be more about politics than anything else.
• Dan Tehan’s daunting new role: restoring trade with China in a hostile political environment (2021-01-18)
  Tony Walker AM
  Tehan will outline some ideas for re-engaging with China at his first press conference this week. The business community will be watching closely.
• A ‘crowded curriculum’? Sure, it may be complex, but so is the world kids must engage with (2021-06-03)
  Chris Hickey
  At the heart of accusations of a crowded curriculum are concerns key areas — such as literacy and numeracy — will be compromised by an insidious creep towards content such as gender issues.
• Victoria’s childcare announcements explained (2020-08-05)
  Kate Noble, Jen Jackson
  Victorian parents will have a total of 72 days of free absences from childcare, if services agree to waive the gap fee. And childcare services will receive 25% of their revenue from the government.
• Open or else face funding cut – Minister Tehan’s edict to independent schools (2020-04-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  Education Minister Dan Tehan has warned non-government schools that if they fail to open for the next term they will face losing funding. He said on Thursday that “as part of the funding requirement” a…
• Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can’t just snap back to ‘normal’ funding arrangements (2020-05-21)
  Kate Noble, Jen Jackson, Sarah Pilcher
  The government’s emergency relief package for childcare centres has kept many from collapsing financially due to COVID-19. The transition to other arrangements must be slow and carefully managed.
• VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the rapid developments in Eden-Monaro, the national cabinet, and next week’s ‘normal’ parliamentary sitting (2020-05-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle Grattan talks with Assistant Professor Caroline Fisher (remotely) about the week in politics.
• An open letter to Australia’s Education Minister Dan Tehan — signed by 73 senior professors (2020-07-21)
  Nicholas Evans, Christian Turney, Christine Beveridge, John Quiggin, Joy Damousi
  More than 70 of Australia’s Laureate professors have signed a letter to the minister for education, Dan Tehan, outlining the flaws in the proposed university reforms.
• Government boosts scrutiny over Chinese targeting of university sector (2019-08-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Morrison government is setting up a University Foreign Interference Taskforce, as it grapples with encroachments by China into Australia’s higher education sector.
• Academic urges universities to get out from under the ‘shadow of Beijing’. (2019-08-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  Professor of Public Ethics, Clive Hamilton, has accused “many” vice-chancellors of of losing sight of academic freedom, under the pressure of revenue and influence from China.
• Morrison likely to elevate aged care to cabinet, as government boosts its funding by $1 billion (2020-12-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government will inject a further $1 billion into aged care, most of it for home care packages, in Thursday’s budget update.
• Nationals revolt over the government’s proposed university fee changes (2020-08-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Nationals are demanding major changes to the government’s controversial planned new regime of higher education fees, declaring they would disadvantage regional communities and students.
• Free childcare ends July 12, with sector losing JobKeeper but receiving temporary payment (2020-06-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government has announced childcare will return to the mean-tested system that was in place before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
• Why Australia does not need a Religious Discrimination Act (2018-07-16)
  Luke Beck
  As Australian society changes, some religious groups are struggling to adjust to their new, less influential place in it.
• If we want brilliant English, history or geography teachers, why are we making humanities courses so costly? (2020-09-23)
  Robyn Cox
  Demand is high for teachers with expertise in STEM subjects like maths. But students also deserve expert English, history, civics or geography teachers. Maybe your favourite teacher did an arts degree.
• View from The Hill: aged care to cabinet, Tehan to trade in Morrison’s modest reshuffle (2020-12-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  The most important changes in Scott Morrison’s limited reshuffle are centred on two vital and controversial issues that will severely test the government in coming months.
• A fox guarding the henhouse? Andrew Nikolic takes the reins of parliament’s security committee (2016-02-26)
  Keiran Hardy
  In an era of ever-increasing counter-terrorism powers, what is Andrew Nikolic’s appointment to a powerful parliamentary committee likely to mean for its scrutiny of national security legislation?
• Humanities graduates earn more than those who study science and maths (2020-06-19)
  Peter Hurley
  The education minister has outlined reforms to higher education funding aimed at producing ‘job ready graduates’. But his announcements don’t seem completely in line with the data.
• View from The Hill: So you wanted to spend more time with the kids? (2020-04-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  What to do about the schools is set to return centre stage when the national cabinet later this week discusses the next steps in managing the coronavirus – specifically, the first stages of the way to “the other side”.
• Lift teacher status to improve student performance (2019-01-27)
  Julie Sonnemann, Jonathan Nolan
  Evidence shows improving teacher selection will improve student results.
• No, Education Minister, we don’t have enough evidence to support banning mobile phones in schools (2021-01-14)
  Marilyn Campbell, Amanda Third
  The Education Minister Dan Tehan has said research shows mobile phone bans have a positive effect on academic performance. But this is not necessarily true.
• Turnbull’s reshuffle undermined by Barnaby Joyce’s ousting of Darren Chester (2017-12-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  Malcolm Turnbull’s reshuffled cabinet has five new faces, but one of the Nationals’ best performers has been unceremoniously dumped by his party leader.
• The Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians: what it is and why it needs updating (2018-12-03)
  Don Carter
  The Melbourne Declaration is now ten years old. It acts as a national guide for education policy, practice and delivery in Australian schools.
• Cracks in social cohesion - the major parties must commit to reinvigorating multiculturalism (2025-04-16)
  Andrew Jakubowicz
  Multicultural policy is adrift in the election campaign, with the major parties refusing to commit to the changes needed to minimise mounting community tensions
• If the government listened to business leaders, they would encourage humanities education, not pull funds from it (2020-06-21)
  Susan Forde
  The government has more than doubled the cost of humanities degrees to encourage ‘job-ready’ graduates. But on what evidence?
• Liberal Party reclaims Goldstein – how Tim Wilson turned back the Teal tidal wave (2025-05-12)
  Phoebe Hayman, Amy Nethery
  The Liberal Party has reclaimed a seat lost to the Teals in 2022. Tim Wilson did it by adapting some of the campaign strategies used by the independents.
• View from The Hill: Tehan’s student fees are not just about jobs, but about funding and a dash of ideology too (2020-06-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government’s higher education changes appear driven by three factors.
• PISA doesn’t define education quality, and knee-jerk policy proposals won’t fix whatever is broken (2019-12-09)
  Alan Reid
  PISA tests only three subjects that aren’t representative of an entire education system. Meanwhile, the test conditions are different across countries and comparisons are fraught.
• Grattan on Friday: Coronavirus adds to Scott Morrison’s many woes (2020-01-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  Parliament will reopen in the final month of a summer of horror for the country in general and Scott Morrison in particular.