Julie Collins

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 Julie Collins 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: $293,205
• Travel Allowance: $11,110
• Office Consumables and Services: $4,954
• Printing and Communications: $52,945
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $3,017
• COMCAR: $5,492
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $205
• Telecommunications - Usage: $485
• Parliamentary Duties: $910
• Scheduled Commercial Transport: $927
• Fares: $35,100
• Domestic Travel: $130,024
• International Travel: $0
• Ministerial Visits: $0
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $48,036

• Swans fans turn up to support women’s team – as it happened
• Fur seal’s death marks first Australian mainland mammal fatality from spreading H5 bird flu strain
• ‘Devastating’: Western Australia fears a black swan moment as bird flu threatens flagship species
• Severe weather warning for northern Victoria – as it happened
• O’Neil condemns Bragg’s ‘crazed’ press club speech – as it happened
• Bullock warns more hikes possible after RBA holds cash rate at 4.35% – as it happened
• Native birds in captivity to be vaccinated against H5 bird flu as Australia prepares for more mass mortalities
• NSW will not implement recommendation of long-awaited hate speech report – as it happened
• Greens senator brands Pauline Hanson a ‘political coward’ over press conference bans – as it happened
• Kumanjayi Little Baby murder trial delayed until December – as it happened

• Government’s housing fund legislation delayed by Greens-Coalition alliance (2023-06-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government at the weekend announced an immediate $2 billion for social housing – which will go to states and territories over this fortnight – hoping this would get the Greens to support the fund
• An Ode To My Grandmother: remaking the past using oral histories, theatre and music (2022-08-21)
  Lorina L. Barker, Julie Collins, Paul Smith
  Indigenous oral history is more than a methodology. It is living history, practised for thousands of millennia, intrinsically woven into Aboriginal people’s way of life and culture.
• How can we achieve reconciliation? Myall Creek offers valuable answers (2016-06-06)
  Julie Collins
  Twenty eight unarmed men, women and children were killed at Myall Creek on June 10, 1838. It was a sad, sombre place - but descendants of the perpetrators and victims have transformed it with a healing ritual.
• Nothing new under the sun: Australia’s long history of missed chances to build sustainable homes (2025-01-14)
  Julie Collins, Lyrian Daniel
  When Australia faced a housing crisis 80 years ago, the government was urged to promote the building of more climate-responsive homes. So why are so many homes today still not made for our climate?
• My time as a ‘scary girl’ on Doctor Who (2017-07-18)
  Julie Collins
  In the late 1980s, a gang of feisty teenage girls briefly helped the good Doctor. But his female companions were still mostly there to show how clever he was.
• Shorten for key role on Gonski as Rudd unveils his team (2013-07-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  Bill Shorten will take over the Education portfolio, with its challenge of securing the Gonski school funding reforms, and Tony Burke gets the poison chalice of Immigration, in Kevin Rudd’s extensive reshuffle…
• Kevin Rudd set to give planes and boats to Indonesia in visit this week (2013-06-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  Kevin Rudd will take a kitbag of goodies to Indonesia this week as he seeks more help from that county to curb the boat flow. The secondhand C-130 Hercules planes that Indonesia was going to buy at “mates…
• Boards need change agents, not just more women: Cox (2012-11-08)
  A new government initiative to get more women on boards is addressing “the wrong end of the problem” says feminist Eva Cox, who argues the bigger issue with boards is a homogeneity that results in group…
• Albanese and Indonesian governments land fertiliser supply deal for farmers (2026-04-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  The federal government has secured access to 250,000 tonnes of extra urea from Indonesia for Australian farmers.
• Referendum bill to pass on Monday while government pulls out stops to try to secure housing fund (2023-06-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  Meanwhile, the Liberal Party continues to deal with the fall-out from last week’s accusations against Senator David Van.
• University of New England
  University of New England
  I am an academic at the University of New England, lecturing in Contextual studies for the School of Education, but also working as an academic for the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Science (HASS…
• How Australia and NZ rules on plant milks differ from overseas, where cows make the only ‘milk’ (2026-03-05)
  Heather Bray
  Australian and NZ farmers have long argued only cow’s milk should be sold as ‘milk’, in line with UK and European laws. This is what our current rules allow.
• As Australia takes the world stage, it’s time to fulfil promises to Afghan and Syrian women (2013-03-08)
  Jacqui True, Laura J. Shepherd
  Today, the world marks International Women’s Day, recognising the equal rights and status of women. This year, Australia is significantly placed on the world stage to make a real difference to women’s…
• The ministerial rotisserie (2013-07-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  Kevin Rudd’s reshuffle has an air of unreality. The new ministry comes so close to the election that it is an interim government, able to promise much but with limited capacity to deliver, before the voters…
• Australia has been crying out for a national housing plan, and new council is a big step towards having one (2022-08-09)
  Emma Baker, Andrew Beer
  The housing crisis facing Australians has been brewing for a long time. A national housing strategy guided by expert, independent and transparent advice is long overdue.
• Election Diary: Will Peter Dutton help son Harry buy a house? (2025-04-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  Dutton was asked if he was willing to be the bank of mum and dad to his son who’s struggling to buy a house, and Albanese’s frosty encounter with Tanya Plibersek.
• Clash of principles, not cultures, in Islamic lecture case (2013-04-28)
  Glyn Davis
  Last week The Australian reported that female attendees at a recent Islamic studies event held at the University of Melbourne had been directed to sit at the back of the lecture theatre, in breach of the…
• Gillard’s cabinet reshuffle favours factions, but will it save her in the polls? (2011-12-12)
  Zareh Ghazarian
  After a weekend of speculation, Julia Gillard announced a new cabinet in a dramatic redistribution of ministerial portfolios this afternoon. The number of cabinet members has swelled to 22, with only Kim…
• Is US beef safe to eat? How worried should we be about ‘mad cow disease’, growth hormones and fatty meat? (2025-07-25)
  Ruth McHugh-Dillon
  US beef will soon be back on Australian menus. But how does it compare with home-grown beef? Three experts explain.
• To boost the nation’s health, the government’s proposed food strategy must put people over profits (2025-05-16)
  Rachael Walshe, Kelly Donati, Molly Fairweather, Nick Rose
  Local food networks have an important role to play in the promised national food security strategy, which must resist the influence of corporate interests
• After a hopeful start, Labor’s affordable housing fund is proving problematic (2025-07-15)
  Katrina Raynor
  The $10 billion housing future fund will build 30,000 new social and affordable homes. While the scheme is welcome, there is plenty of room for improvement.
• University of New England
  University of New England
  I am an academic at the University of New England, lecturing in Contextual studies for the School of Education, but also working as an academic for the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Science (HASS…
• 4 ways to bring down rent and build homes faster than Labor’s $10 billion housing fund (2023-05-16)
  Peter Martin
  We can do better than a grand-sounding big-bucks fund.
• View from The Hill: Record 10 women in Albanese cabinet, and surprise move for Plibersek to environment (2022-05-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  Anthony Albanese has switched Tanya Plibersek from education to environment and promoted Clare O'Neil into the plum home affairs ministry in a 23-member cabinet that contains a record 10 women.
• FactCheck: is the Coalition spending ‘$1 billion extra, every year’ on aged care? (2018-10-21)
  Peter Whiteford
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has defended the Coalition’s spending on aged care as preparations for a Royal Commission into the sector get underway. We asked the experts to crunch the numbers.
• View from The Hill: Kristina Keneally vs Peter Dutton should produce plenty of political bloodsport (2019-06-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  Keneally has called Dutton a “thug” and “the most toxic man in Australian politics”. Now she’ll shadow him, as Home Affairs spokeswoman.
• View from The Hill: Albanese appoints Tony Burke to neutralise immigration issues and sends Clare O'Neil to grapple with housing crisis (2024-07-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  The prime minister has made changes that will strengthen his team ahead if the next election, though not as many as he might have, given factional constraints.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers, Angus Taylor and Danielle Wood on the budget (2022-10-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  In this podcast, we talk to Chalmers, shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, and the head of the Grattan Institute Danielle Wood about power prices, tax pressures and spending reforms
• State of the states: Tasmania (2013-08-30)
  Tony McCall
  STATE OF THE STATES: a snapshot of the key issues affecting each state and territory in the lead up to Saturday’s election. Leading up to the September 7 federal election, one of the multiple three-word…
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers flags deal on Reserve Bank’s new structure is close (2024-08-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  Treasurer Jim Chalmers joined the podcast to discuss a range of issues from RBA reform, the latest employment figures and wages.
• State of the states: 6 experts on how the election unfolded across the country (2025-05-04)
  David Clune, Narelle Miragliotta, Paul Williams, Robert Hortle, Rob Manwaring, Zareh Ghazarian
  Labor won the election, but how did your state vote? Here’s the breakdown of the key seats nationally.
• State of the states: Queensland and Tasmania win it for the Coalition (2019-05-20)
  Nick Economou, Ian Cook, Maxine Newlands, Richard Eccleston, Rob Manwaring, Stewart Jackson
  The Tasmanian seats of Bass and Braddon were always going to be key elements of a Coalition victory – and so it proved to be.
• University of New England
  University of New England
  I am an academic at the University of New England, lecturing in Contextual studies for the School of Education, but also working as an academic for the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Science (HASS…