James McGrath

We estimate James McGrath 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: $204,455
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $18,970
• COMCAR: $2,388
• Travel Allowance: $12,506
• Office Consumables and Services: $2,295
• Printing and Communications: $26,514
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $144
• Telecommunications - Usage: $323
• Fares: $20,833
• Electorate Duties: $523
• Parliamentary Duties: $632
• Domestic Travel: $80,019
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $39,307

• Greens urge Labor to stop treating children detained in Syria camp like ‘disposable political pawns’ – as it happened
• Labor approves 4.41% increase for health insurance premiums – as it happened
• Thousands gather at Melbourne Herzog protest – as it happened
• Police clash with protesters as thousands rally to oppose Israeli president’s visit – as it happened
• Denmark’s King Frederik and Queen Mary to visit Australia – as it happened
• Sussan Ley unveils all-Liberal interim shadow cabinet and gives Nationals an ultimatum
• NSW laws take effect – as it happened
• Katie Allen, former federal Liberal MP, dies aged 59
• Future Fund spent $20,000 to send CEO’s executive assistant on business class trip to scope hotels in US
• Greens and independents line up to condemn Liberals’ net zero decision – as it happened

• Blame game as government forced to filibuster to fill Senate work gap (2016-09-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Turnbull government was caught out by not having any legislation for the Senate to consider.
• Government senator urges sale of ABC city properties (2019-06-20)
  Michelle Grattan
  Following similar comments by Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack, a senator has called for the ABC to sell its Ultimo headquarters and move to the suburbs and regional centres.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sussan Ley on Barnaby’s defection and how the environment law deal ‘fell apart’ (2025-11-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  Ley says the Opposition was negotiating on the environment laws with the government into early Thursday – just before Labor announced a deal with the Greens.
• Parliamentary electoral committee floats bigger parliament, longer terms and no byelections (2020-12-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  A government-dominated parliamentary committee has recommended the voting system for federal elections should become optional preferential and pre-polling should be reduced from three to two weeks.
• Anika Wells refers herself to independent watchdog over expenses affair (2025-12-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  The embattled communications minister’s $95,000 flights to New York, among other travel perks and expenses, will be investigated.
• View from The Hill: It’s the internal agitators who are bugging Scott Morrison on Adani (2019-04-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Some from the Queensland LNP, including Matt Canavan, and Barnaby Joyce, are screaming for Environment Minister Melissa Price to act; southern Liberals are praying she doesn’t.
• Flood of frontbench resignations as Liberals prepare for Friday leadership showdown (2026-02-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  A bevy of Liberal frontbenchers supporting Angus Taylor’s leadership challenge resigned their positions on Thursday, ahead of Friday’s 9am party vote.
• Nuclear becomes latest round in energy wars (2019-08-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government has asked a parliamentary committee to examine the issue and report on it by the end of 2019.
• Opposition starts on challenge of crafting (yet another) energy policy (2025-06-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Sussan Ley at her first address to the National Press Club announced the plans to craft a new energy policy despite the deep divides within her party.
• Sussan Ley fills frontbench holes temporarily, giving a brief window for Nationals to rethink Coalition split (2026-01-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  With a final reshuffle of the shadow ministry put off for another week, Ley has left the door for political reunification firmly open.
• Leeds Beckett University
  Leeds Beckett University
  Dr James McGrath’s book Naming Adult Autism: Culture, Science, Identity is published in paperback in spring 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield International. The book explores portrayals of adult autism…
• Morrison government approves next step towards Adani coal mine (2019-04-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  The decision, taken by Price, comes after public pressure from Queensland LNP members, including a threat by McGrath to publicly call for her resignation if she failed to treat the project fairly.
• Albanese increases majority and Dutton loses seat in stunning election landslide (2025-05-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  Albanese has won a landslide victory at the 2025 election, in a major upset for the Coalition.
• ‘It’s our ABC’ (2014-08-15)
  Brian McNair
  On the day that the ABC released the results of a Newspoll survey on attitudes to the corporation, managing director Mark Scott addressed students at QUT with the message, ‘It’s our ABC’! ‘Us’ being the…
• Dutton camp presses for quick second leadership ballot (2018-08-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  Rumours circulated last night about the number of names that had been gathered for the petition for the meeting, which requires 43 signatures.
• Student protests show Australian education does get some things right (2018-12-05)
  Kellie Bousfield, Jacquie Tinkler
  Far from proof of a flawed education system, politically active school students are evidence our education system is working well.
• Why voter ID requirements could exclude the most vulnerable citizens, especially First Nations people (2021-11-08)
  Dani Linder
  The Morrison government has recently proposed the requirement for registered voters to show ID prior to casting their vote at the polling booth on election day. potentially further disenfranchise vulnerable people of society who don’t have access to the ID documents required, particularly First Nations people
• Fierravanti-Wells resigns from ministry, accusing Turnbull of ignoring Liberal party’s conservative base (2018-08-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  In her resignation letter to the Prime Minister, Fierravanti-Wells reminded him that months ago she had told him Peter Dutton should become deputy Liberal leader, replacing Julie Bishop.
• View from the Hill: Liberals and Nationals patch things up and announce a shadow ministry (2025-05-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  As the Coalition re-forms, tensions are still running high in the Nationals.
• View from The Hill: Angus Taylor appoints Tim Wilson as part of a new-look Liberal economic team (2026-02-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has appointed Tim Wilson to go head-to-head as shadow treasurer against the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers.
• Grattan on Friday: Ken Wyatt juggles identity and politics (2019-10-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  As the first Indigenous federal cabinet minister, Ken Wyatt is widely respected in first peoples communities, but by the same token, the expectations on him are very high.
• Leeds Beckett University
  Leeds Beckett University
  Dr James McGrath’s book Naming Adult Autism: Culture, Science, Identity is published in paperback in spring 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield International. The book explores portrayals of adult autism…
• Major rebuff to Malcolm Turnbull as poll result hovers on knife-edge (2016-07-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  The federal election result is on a knife-edge, with the outcome between a majority Turnbull government and a hung parliament.
• Grattan on Friday: The art of walking, forwards and backwards, and some thoughts on Brandis (2017-03-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  Malcolm Turnbull will overfly Western Australia twice next week, when he makes a brief dash to Indonesia to attend a conference of Indian Ocean Rim leaders.
• Funny, that: why humour is a hit-and-miss affair on the election campaign trail (2019-05-09)
  Mark Rolfe
  Political humour, like all humour, carries an innate risk: if it works, it can be spectacular, and it it tanks, it can be a catastrophe. Australian election campaigns have given us both.
• Not all autistic people are good at maths and science – despite the stereotypes (2019-04-03)
  James McGrath
  Autistic and artistic, you can be both.
• Black Snow, a new pacy murder mystery, addresses the complicated legacy of slavery in Australia (2022-12-26)
  Clare Corbould, Hilary Emmett
  Black Snow, a six-part drama on Stan, puts the stories of Australian South Sea Islanders in frame.
• This tiny minority of Iraqis follows an ancient Gnostic religion – and there’s a chance they could be your neighbors too (2021-06-21)
  James F. McGrath
  Mandaeans are followers of ancient Gnostic religion, whose traditional homeland was the region of Iraq and Iran. Today, this small minority lives in many parts of the world, including the US.
• 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.
• 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’.
• ‘Dates add nothing to our culture’: Everywhen explores Indigenous deep history, challenging linear, colonial narratives (2023-03-08)
  Anna Clark
  A fascinating new collection of essays explores Indigenous deep histories and conceptions of time, showing pre-colonial Australia’s rich human past.
• ‘All things will outlast us’: how the Indigenous concept of deep time helps us understand environmental destruction (2020-08-18)
  Ann McGrath
  For non-Indigenous Australians, the last summer of bushfires seemed to mark the end times. Indigenous Australians have a long perspective on history, which offers hope.
• Leeds Beckett University
  Leeds Beckett University
  Dr James McGrath’s book Naming Adult Autism: Culture, Science, Identity is published in paperback in spring 2019 by Rowman & Littlefield International. The book explores portrayals of adult autism…