Jess Walsh

We estimate Jess Walsh 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: $232,366
• Travel Allowance: $13,194
• Printing and Communications: $3,643
• Office Consumables and Services: $4,305
• Telecommunications - Usage: $473
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $3,278
• COMCAR: $6,310
• Fares: $24,294
• Domestic Travel: $109,122
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $67,746

• All about choice? Liberals move childcare battlelines to vouchers for nannies and grandparents
• No longer a ‘niche’ group: children with complex needs being turned away from childcare in Australia
• Almost half of people using employment providers threatened with payment suspensions, new data shows
• More than 20 taken to hospital after Melbourne carbon monoxide leak – as it happened
• Failure to tackle antisemitism should see organisations’ funding cut like subpar childcare centres, special envoy says
• About 30 withdraw from Bendigo writers festival over speaker code – as it happened
• Burke says he’s ‘optimistic’ about security relationship with US after quiet meeting with Trump’s FBI chief – as it happened
• Senator calls out ‘incredibly childish stunts’ – as it happened
• No positive STI results to date as testing of children in case of accused childcare paedophile continues – as it happened
• Labor puts childcare centres on notice after abuse scandal with ‘one strike’ threat to funding

• With a new minister for early childhood education, what can the federal government do to make centres safer? (2025-05-16)
  Victoria Minson, Daryl Higgins
  More reports of horrific abuse at childcare centres have emerged. Mechanisms supposed to stop situations going from unacceptable to unfathomable have failed.
• The Lowe road – the RBA treads a ‘narrow path’ (2023-02-17)
  John Hawkins
  Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe is unrepentant about the prospect of further interest-rate rises. In fact, he says there’s a risk the bank is not doing enough.
• Australia will get a register to track educators and CCTV trial in centres – we still need more to keep kids safe (2025-08-22)
  Brian Q. Jenkins, Danielle Arlanda Harris
  All Australia’s education ministers met in Sydney to agree on a new package of measures to improve safety in childcare.
• New rules for crypto assets will protect consumers and innovators (2022-06-08)
  Aaron M. Lane
  Australia is in the middle of a much-needed process of regulating cryptocurrency and related digital assets, but there’s plenty still to be done.
• View from The Hill: Albanese shifts Tanya Plibersek from environment, in favour of ‘can-do’ Murray Watt (2025-05-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The prime minister’s new cabinet dumps a couple, promotes others and leaves some holding political short straws.
• Grattan on Friday: childcare is a ‘canary in mine’ warning for wider problems in policy delivery (2025-07-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  When a big scandal breaks, governments jump into action, ministers rush out to say they’ll “do something” . But why does it take a crisis to get things done?
• 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’.
• UK election 2019: conspiracy or cock-up? The digital dirty tricks marring this campaign (2019-11-28)
  Matt Walsh
  The voting public is being forced to wade through a fog of disinformation thanks to some cynical ploys.