Josh Burns

The 10 most recent “Aye” and “No” votes recorded in the Australian Parliament's own division records this term, sourced directly from aph.gov.au independently of the voting-record data above.

We estimate Josh Burns 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: $216,178
• Office Consumables and Services: $9,353
• Printing and Communications: $75,397
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $3,761
• Parking: $356
• COMCAR: $3,386
• Telecommunications - Usage: $254
• Travel Allowance: $3,864
• Parliamentary Duties: $381
• Fares: $7,139
• Domestic Travel: $47,608
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $64,680

• Tragedy and loss helped forge Steph Hodgins-May into a steely climate campaigner. Now she’s taking on Anthony Albanese
• Coalition targets Labor over ‘plummeting’ Sydney house prices – as it happened
• NSW police charge woman with 62 offences over alleged threatening letters – as it happened
• ‘Socialist’ teachers target eight Victorian Labor MPs including education minister – as it happened
• Court win for low-paid Domino’s workers in underpayment class action – as it happened
• Josh Burns says partner Georgie Purcell faces antisemitic abuse because he is Jewish, commission hears
• Politicians and media gather for Canberra’s Midwinter Ball– as it happened
• Garth Hamilton storms out of question time after outburst – as it happened
• Mother says she ‘misses and loves’ daughter after NT girl’s body found – as it happened
• Albanese condemns ‘antisemitic hate incident’ in which Jewish boys ‘ran for their lives’ in Melbourne

• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Josh Burns on being a Jewish MP during a terrible conflict (2024-04-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  Labor MP Josh Burns joins us to discuss the government moving towards recognition of a Palestinian state to help facilitate a two-state solution and the wider Middle East crisis.
• Election Diary: Labor breaks practice of preferencing Greens to protect Jewish MP Josh Burns (2025-04-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  It takes a bit for Labor not to preference the Greens but on Friday it was announced that in the Melbourne seat of Macnamara the ALP will run an open ticket.
• View from The Hill: another Liberal moderate to leave Dutton team (2024-12-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  A second member of the shadow cabinet has announced he is quitting parliament, further depleting the moderates’ presence in the parliamentary Liberal party and boosting the chance of the teal candidate…
• Parliament condemns antisemitism, but can’t avoid the blame game (2025-02-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  Independent Allegra Spender spearheaded a condemnation of antisemitism by federal parliament – but the debate was mired in partisanship.
• Albanese announces antisemitism taskforce, as synagogue firebombing investigation upgraded (2024-12-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  The upgrading means it will now be investigated by the Victorian Joint Counter-terrorism Team, and tougher, anti-terrorism laws apply.
• Anthony Albanese joins Canadian and NZ prime ministers in calling for ceasefire in Israel-Hamas war (2023-12-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The leaders called on Israel to ‘respect international humanitarian law’, and said Hamas has no place in the future governance of Gaza.
• Albanese not invited to rabbi’s funeral, as Frydenberg calls for ban on ‘hate preachers’ (2025-12-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  The response to the massacre has become deeply partisan, with Frydenberg calling on Albanese to accept ‘personal responsibility’ for the deaths.
• Newspoll steady but Albanese’s ratings jump; swing to Labor in marginal seats (2025-04-13)
  Adrian Beaumont
  While the two-party preferred numbers are steady, the prime minister’s approval rating has improved, as have Labor’s chances in marginal seats.
• View from The Hill: Liberals tick off deal on hate crime measures (2026-01-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  On the backdrop of a solemn day in Parliament, the government and opposition moved closer to a deal to pass hate-speech laws.
• As simple as finding a job? Getting people out of social housing is much more complex than that (2019-12-11)
  Chris Hartley, Kathleen Flanagan
  Helping tenants find work supposedly creates a pathway into private rental housing, freeing up social housing for others. Private rental costs and the situations of many tenants make that unrealistic.
• Life insurers can charge more or decline cover based on your genetic test results. New laws must change this (2023-09-07)
  Jane Tiller, Paul Lacaze
  Life insurance companies can legally use the results of genetic tests to decline coverage or increase premiums. MPs have called for legislation that bans this practice.
• 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.
• View from The Hill: Albanese announces more funding for Jewish security, labels synagogue firebomb ‘terrorism’ (2024-12-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  In the reactions to incidents of antisemitism, many people observe a contrast between New South Wales Premier Chris Minns and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
• View from The Hill: Labor’s ‘managed democracy’ reaches high point as blanket thrown over Israel-Gaza dissent (2026-07-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Ministers and factional heavyweights worked behind closed doors to squash an attempted revolt over Israel and Gaza.
• A new definition of antisemitism from Universities Australia is attracting criticism – two historians explain why (2025-03-11)
  Jan Lanicek, Ruth Balint
  At the core of the ongoing debate over definitions are genuinely different understandings of what constitutes antisemitism.
• Grattan on Friday: Albanese government comes under more heat as it tries to navigate its position on Gaza conflict (2023-12-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  The recent vote in the United Nations on the Israel-Hamas conflict puts serious strain on the Albanese government, internally and externally writes Michelle Grattan, who dissects the governments response.
• View from The Hill: as war rages in the Middle East, Australian parliamentarians try to promote understanding (2023-11-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  In federal parliament, there are “friendship” groups for almost everything, from AUKUS to arthritis, and for many countries. Three groups are particularly relevant at the moment – Friends of Palestine…
• Dassi Erlich and her sisters were ‘easy pickings for predators’. With their abuser Malka Leifer’s conviction – and a new book – they take control (2024-01-29)
  Joanna Mendelssohn
  Dassi Erlich details the crime, the cover-up and her eventual victory in court against Malka Leifer, the former school principal who abused her.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: For Mark Dreyfus, antisemitism is very personal (2024-12-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Mark Dreyfus joins the podcast to talk about his family's story of fleeing Nazi Germany, his own and his community's experience with antisemitism, and his reaction to criticism of the government.
• Grattan on Friday: Angus Taylor’s troubles go international, in brawl with Naomi Wolf (2019-12-05)
  Michelle Grattan
  The situation with Naomi Wolf is another case of Angus Taylor being sloppy with facts and refusing to clean up his mess quickly.
• Beyond GDP: Chalmers’ historic moment to build wellbeing (2022-06-23)
  Warwick Smith
  Australia’s treasury helped inspire NZ and other governments to adopt well-being budgets – now, years later, we look set to get one too. So what are the challenges ahead?
• Is there really a ‘moral case for coal’? The answer is about far more than money (2015-10-29)
  Janna Thompson
  Considerations of the moral case for coal must do far more than consider whether cheap fossil energy will lift people out of poverty. It must consider the pollution and harm to nature that come with it.
• A decade after the US version ended, Australia remakes The Office. It’s not new, but it’s funny (2024-10-17)
  Philippa Burne
  The remake mirrors the US version: a romance, office tensions, an old-school boss who craves camaraderie, and a staff for whom work life comes second to what they’d rather be doing.
• ‘Wellbeing’ will give future budgets more rigour than any before (2022-07-19)
  Peter Martin
  From October, Australia will start routinely quantifying the benefits as well as costs of federal spending. It’s already shaping up as the new treasurer’s most important legacy.
• Hail, Caesar! or Hollywood, at least (2016-02-25)
  Ari Mattes
  The Coen brothers may have returned to form with the genre-spinning Hail, Caesar! It still remains to be seen if they’ll ever reach the heights of their glory days again.
• Carmichael mine jumps another legal hurdle, but litigants are making headway (2016-11-26)
  Justine Bell-James
  Queensland’s Supreme Court has backed the state government’s decision to approve the proposed Carmichael coal mine. But environmental groups have scored some key legal points on climate considerations.
• Our power grid is crying out for capacity, but should we open the gas valves? (2017-02-23)
  Dylan McConnell
  Rising gas prices and energy security issues have led to calls for more gas to be pumped into our energy system. But we need to balance that with the equally pressing need to limit greenhouse emissions.
• Playing politics with renewables: how the right is losing its way (2017-02-21)
  David Holmes
  This summer has seen a concerted attack on renewable energy coming out of Canberra, featuring everyone from One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts to Coalition ministers channelling the far right of their…
• Independents will not help form government – but they will be vital in holding it to account (2025-05-05)
  Joshua Black
  Yes, Labor has won a huge majority. But it will still need to work constructively with the crossbench in both the House and the Senate.
• New coal plants wouldn’t be clean, and would cost billions in taxpayer subsidies (2017-02-02)
  Frank Jotzo
  Nobody in business wants to touch new “clean” coal plants, which means taxpayers would be left to foot the billion-dollar bills.