Henry Pike

We estimate Henry Pike 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: $129,277
• Office Consumables and Services: $3,222
• Printing and Communications: $35,989
• Telecommunications - Usage: $399
• Travel Allowance: $7,116
• Fares: $14,024
• COMCAR: $2,115
• Domestic Travel: $18,769
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $47,644

• Husic says Labor pile-on after Aukus criticism ‘not healthy’ – as it happened
• Labor MP challenges Marles over Israeli government support – as it happened
• Dozens of Sydney suburbs urged to reduce water use after major main bursts – as it happened
• Angus Taylor unveils Coalition frontbench with Tim Wilson as shadow treasurer and Nationals returned
• New leader targets immigration in first comments after spill – as it happened
• SA attorney general refers anti-abortion activist Joanna Howe’s fundraiser ‘game’ for investigation
• Two Sydney hospital employees critical after car mounts footpath and strikes them outside entrance – as it happened
• Optus customer who reported triple-zero outage told to go to store – as it happened
• Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Hastie rebuked for ‘playing politics’ on abortion in debate on stillbirth leave
• Queensland university apologises for ‘hurt’ and ‘offence’ caused at anti-racism event

• Henry V meets the London Blitz and brings the house down (2014-06-16)
  Claire Hansen
  Bell Shakespeare’s new production of William Shakespeare’s Henry V – which opened in Canberra on June 14 – interrogates the complexities of war through a unique framing device: its scenes are played out…
• ‘Bloody-hunting slaughtermen’, sieges and ‘lechery’: what does Shakespeare tell us of war? (2022-04-25)
  Robert White
  In 26 of his 38 plays, Shakespeare includes a war. Reading them, one is tempted to ask ‘when will we ever learn?’ rather than pronounce, ‘lest we forget’.
• #ThanksforTyping: the women behind famous male writers (2017-04-06)
  Camilla Nelson
  From Tolstoy to Mark Twain, the most famous writers owe many words of thanks to their long-suffering wives.
• Friday essay: ‘but we already had a treaty’ – Tom Griffiths on a little known 1889 peace accord (2022-05-19)
  Tom Griffiths
  The Debney Peace, negotiated over a 5-day ceremony on Mithaka Country, is nationally significant to 21st century Australia.
• Review: Latvian Radio Choir, a full-throated vocal celebration (2015-02-02)
  Deborah Pike
  Swedish director Kay Pollak’s film As It is in Heaven (2004) climaxes at a point of musical bliss which is both chaotic and profoundly unifying. Rather than singing a few polished songs with energy in…
• Brilliant, moving, thought-provoking! Simon & Schuster is dispensing with book blurbs – will it make any difference? (2025-02-05)
  Julian Novitz
  ‘When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them are tripe.’
• Friday essay: neither a monster nor a saint … Sir Samuel Griffith, Queensland’s violent frontier and the rigours of truth-telling (2024-02-22)
  Raymond Evans
  Many argue Samuel Griffith, twice Queensland premier and our first chief justice, is guilty of colonial war crimes. Raymond Evans searched for the evidence to nail him but found a different story.
• From jousting to football: the ideal man hasn’t changed much since medieval times (2016-02-25)
  Emma Levitt
  The tiltyard – like the football pitch – was an important arena in which men could demonstrate their prowess in front of a vast audience.
• An 18th-century rebellion for liberty, equality and freedom − not in France or the United States, but Ireland (2025-05-22)
  Joseph Patrick Kelly
  The 1798 rebellion aimed at creating a secular state with equal rights regardless of religion.
• Five missing kings and queens – and where we might find them (2016-01-05)
  Charles West
  Experts believe that Henry I lies beneath a Reading car park. But some royal burials are even more mysterious.