Helen Haines

We estimate Helen Haines 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: $199,758
• Travel Allowance: $7,390
• Printing and Communications: $85,818
• Office Consumables and Services: $12,914
• Publications: $1,540
• Telecommunications - Usage: $643
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $379
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $6,101
• COMCAR: $909
• Domestic Travel: $26,182
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $57,882

• Fugitive emerged from building holding weapon before being shot dead, commissioner says – as it happened
• Labor backs Greens inquiry into gas export tax – as it happened
• ASX suffers more heavy losses as Middle East crisis spooks investors – as it happened
• ACCC calls emergency meeting with fuel suppliers – as it happened
• SA braces for ‘highly unpredictable’ weather as Sydney commuters urged ‘take care’ – as it happened
• Angus Taylor faces leadership test in Farrer byelection as independent vows to ‘finish what we started’ and oust Liberals
• New leader targets immigration in first comments after spill – as it happened
• Shadow attorney general says it would be unacceptable to ‘effectively knife’ first female Liberal leader – as it happened
• Protesters chant ‘we have the right to demonstrate’ at rally outside Sydney police station – as it happened
• Police clash with protesters as thousands rally to oppose Israeli president’s visit – as it happened

• Politics with Michelle Grattan: MPs Tim Watts, Fiona Martin, Clare O'Neil and Helen Haines talk about serving their electorates during the coronavirus crisis (2020-04-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle Grattan discusses how the coronavirus is affecting a range of MPs abilities to serve their constituents, operate their offices, and partake in parliament.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Crossbencher Helen Haines on Morrison and integrity (2022-08-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle Grattan speaks with Independent MP Helen Haines about a national integrity commission and Scott Morrison's secret appointment to five different ministries
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent MP Helen Haines on using ‘soft power’ (2019-09-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  Helen Haines, who does not have the real legislative power her predecessor, Cathy McGowan shared after the Coalition fell into minority government, says "building relationships is key to getting things done".
• Independent MP Helen Haines has a plan to stamp out pork-barrelling. Would it work? (2024-02-27)
  Yee-Fui Ng
  The private member’s bill is unlikely to get through, but it raises important points about the scourge of pork-barrelling in Australian politics.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Independent Helen Haines says the NACC has had ‘disappointing start’, and the government is pork barrelling (2024-11-06)
  Michelle Grattan
  Independent MP Helen Haines, who holds the Victorian seat of Indi, has long focused on integrity issues, and she joined us on the podcast.
• Anti-corruption commission would hold public hearings ‘in exceptional circumstances’ (2022-09-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  Under the proposed legislation for the Albanese governments anti-corruption body, public hearings would only be held in ‘exceptional circumstances’ and in the public interest.
• Crossbenchers cancel their membership of airlines’ elite lounges (2024-11-05)
  Michelle Grattan
  Independents, Allegra Spender and Helen Haines, have declared they are pulling out of the elite lounges run by Qantas and Virgin, amid the ongoing spotlight on privileges.
• As the government drags its heels, a better model for a federal integrity commission has emerged (2020-10-26)
  Yee-Fui Ng
  Independent MP Helen Haines’s bill will likely not pass without the government’s support, but it proposes a robust body with suitable accountability mechanisms. It’s worth serious consideration.
• How does the government’s long-awaited anti-corruption bill rate? An integrity expert breaks it down (2022-09-28)
  A J Brown
  While Labor is close to delivering an historic integrity reform, there are wrinkles still to be ironed out.
• Grattan on Friday: Election delivered bonanza of crossbenchers but what impact will they make? (2022-06-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  David Pocock, the progressive independent who broke the Liberals’ stranglehold on one of the two ACT Senate seats, wouldn’t have expected to find himself allied with Pauline Hanson before even being sworn in
• GetUp’s brand of in-your-face activism is winning elections – and making enemies (2019-05-17)
  Mark Rolfe
  GetUp has notched many political victories since launching in 2005. Now, independents and conservatives are trying to replicate its approach to grassroots political participation.
• 3 years on from the ‘integrity’ election, how is Australia tracking on corruption reforms? (2025-05-01)
  Kate Griffiths
  Whoever forms government after this weekend, here are 5 key areas to get better value for taxpayers’ money and reduce the sway of powerful lobby groups over policy.
• View from The Hill: One Nation’s performance in SA will send shivers down Angus Taylor’s spine for Farrer campaign (2026-03-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  Taylor is in desperate need of a strategy to counter One Nation.
• People power: everyday Australians are building their own renewables projects, and you can too (2020-10-12)
  Dominique McCollum Coy, Roger Dargaville, Shirin Malekpour
  Ever wanted to own your own wind farm? Well now you can.
• Independents took cities by storm last election. This time, they’ve got regional Australia in their sights (2025-03-12)
  Maxine Newlands
  The Teal independents claimed inner-city seats in 2022, but as political disenfranchisement continues, will we see the same play out in regional Australia?
• Australia’s embrace of independent political candidates shows there’s no such thing as a safe seat (2025-03-27)
  Joshua Black
  The surge of successful independent MPs at the 2022 election shows no sign of changing – and in fact may grow more powerful still.
• Accountability is under threat. Parliament must urgently reset the balance (2021-10-28)
  Anne Tiernan
  The Coalition government has shown contempt for accountability. It’s time more was done to safeguard standards and our democracy.
• Government to publish secret section of Robodebt report, but timing is uncertain (2024-11-07)
  Michelle Grattan
  Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says the government plans to publish the secret section of the Robodebt royal commission report, although it is not clear when it will do so.
• What has Labor promised on an integrity commission and can it deliver a federal ICAC by Christmas? (2022-05-22)
  Yee-Fui Ng
  Labor has proposed a robust commission with strong powers, coupled with checks and balances to ensure it does not abuse its powers.
• Federal parliament just weakened political donations laws while you weren’t watching (2020-11-04)
  Luke Beck
  Last week, the Coalition and Labor passed laws that make it easier for property developers to make political donations.
• Crossbenchers seek assurances as anti-corruption bill is introduced this week (2022-09-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  While Labor has the numbers in the lower house, it would need one additional vote beyond the Greens if the opposition opposed the legislation in the Senate.
• Shorten distances himself from Green overtures on climate policy (2019-05-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  After the backlash against the formal Labor-Greens alliance under the Gillard government, Shorten is anxious to keep maximum distance between the ALP and the minor party.
• Why can politicians so easily dodge accountability for their mistakes? The troubling answer: because they can (2020-12-03)
  Chris Aulich
  Have our leaders been emboldened by their successes in responding to the pandemic and counting on this to defuse criticisms of their behaviours?
• A sign of healthy democracy or a ‘rudderless’ nation? How crossing the floor has changed (2021-12-02)
  Camilla Nelson
  The final days of parliament for 2021 have been marked by a spate of floor crossings. But it may not be as ‘shambolic’ as it seems.
• View from The Hill: What Anthony Albanese wants from parliament for Christmas (2022-11-20)
  Michelle Grattan
  In a Monday speech to the International Trade Union Confederation, the prime minister lists measures the government has introduced into parliament “in the past month”
• Want to know what’s really going on in Australian politics? A four-way tussle in Farrer may tell us (2026-02-16)
  John Hawkins
  Sussan Ley’s retirement from parliament means all eyes will be on the byelection in her regional seat of Farrer – and the contest may well be messy.
• View from The Hill: Ley formally resigns, tells Taylor it’s ‘vital’ he holds Farrer (2026-02-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  Deposed Liberal leader Sussan Ley formally resigned from parliament on Friday – and sent a blunt challenge to her successor, Angus Taylor.
• Here’s why the Coalition favours optional preferential voting: it would devastate Labor (2021-04-09)
  Benjamin Reilly
  New research examines how recent federal elections would have been affected if optional preferential voting had been used. The results were not favourable to Labor.
• What’s going on with independent candidates and the federal election? (2021-12-13)
  Malcolm Mackerras
  Each day seems to bring a new announcement of an independent taking on a high-profile Liberal candidate.
• Regional communities were central to Uluru Statement, and they must also be for the Voice to Parliament (2023-05-26)
  James Blackwell
  First Nations Voices from regional communities was essential in designing and advancing the idea of a Voice to Parliament, and it will be equally essential in this upcoming referendum.