Mary Doyle

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 Mary Doyle 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: $122,168
• Printing and Communications: $35,349
• Office Consumables and Services: $2,377
• Travel Allowance: $7,430
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $3,617
• COMCAR: $2,120
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $255
• Telecommunications - Usage: $265
• Fares: $7,656
• Parliamentary Duties: $2,758
• Scheduled Commercial Transport: $748
• Domestic Travel: $14,253
• Parliamentary Delegations: $3,261
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $42,079

• Husic rebukes PM’s assertion ‘good people’ went to March for Australia rallies as Nampijinpa Price walks back immigration claim
• Dutton visits sixth petrol station in seven days – as it happened
• Queensland man jailed for child abuse-related offences – as it happened
• Anne Aly criticises Simon Birmingham for repeating Netanyahu’s ‘dismissive’ response to aid worker’s death – as it happened
• David Shoebridge says Julian Assange ‘may not survive’ trial and extradition – as it happened
• Labor claims victory as Liberal swing falls short – as it happened
• Labor ‘not giving up’ on republic push – as it happened
• Teal MPs condemn opposition leader – as it happened
• Australian bird of the year 2023 result – follow live updates as the #birdoftheyear winner is announced
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• Labor’s unexpected Aston win is body blow for Dutton (2023-04-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  This is the first time in more than a century that a government has won a byelection from an Opposition
• View from The Hill: Dutton saddles up for Aston race amid Victorian Liberal infighting (2023-03-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  Peter Dutton on Saturday faces his first real-time electoral test in the Victorian seat of Aston, with the conditions on the track heavy going
• Now it’s Labor promising the budget will be (briefly) back in black (2023-05-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  The budget projects an improvement of more than $143 billion over four years, compared to the Coalition’s final budget, brought down in March last year by Josh Frydenberg
• View from The Hill: April 1 Aston byelection will be an all-female battle (2023-02-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  The seat is on a 2.8% margin, after a large swing of more than 7% against the discredited Tudge in 2022
• Grattan on Friday: Fadden byelection is Dutton’s immediate hurdle but party reform is the bigger challenge (2023-07-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Fadden could deliver a blow or a boost to Dutton. He can hardly afford the former, and desperately needs the latter.
• Friday essay: recognising the unsung heroes of Australia’s AIDS crisis (2017-09-14)
  Shirleene Robinson
  The AIDS crisis arrived in Australia in 1982 and triggered an enormous (and successful) public health response, largely driven by volunteers. These people, often from marginalised communities in their own right, deserve recognition in Australia’s proud volunteer tradition.
• Uncertainty and pessimism abound. Will fear be enough to push Dutton into office? (2025-03-30)
  Frank Bongiorno
  The Liberal leader goes into this election presenting a particularly bleak worldview. Whether voters are in step with that view remains to be seen.
• Quitting alcohol changes the brain and can increase the risk of compulsive drinking – new research in mice (2026-08-14)
  Danny G. Winder, Marie Doyle
  Alcohol abstinence alters brain activity in ways that may drive someone with alcohol use disorder to relapse.
• Explainer: what is fanfiction? (2015-10-07)
  Rukmini Pande
  Fanfiction is nebulous, confusing and often mocked. It’s also explosively popular. So what is it?
• Life, death, intimacy and privilege: 4 works of COVID fiction – and what they say about us (2022-09-11)
  Deborah Lupton
  Four different authors – Sarah Moss, Roddy Doyle, Anne Tyler and Gary Shteyngart – tell four different stories of life in a time of COVID.
• Macron and Le Pen battle voter disdain as they square off for French presidency (2017-04-26)
  Natalie Doyle
  Both Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron have gained from the very deep disaffection of the French electorate with its traditional political representatives.
• Scrounging for money: how the world’s great writers made a living (2017-05-16)
  Camilla Nelson
  Writers have tried pretty much anything to make ends meet: advertising, journalism, butterfly collecting, working as a janitor or a postal clerk.
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula: bats, garlic, disturbing sexualities and a declining empire (2023-03-21)
  Sharon Bickle
  First published in 1897, Dracula is the best-known vampire story in English. It has been endlessly adapted for screen, but today’s stories tend to dilute the horror at the novel’s heart.
• In supporting civil unions for same sex couples, Pope Francis is moving Catholics toward a more expansive understanding of family (2020-11-03)
  Julie Hanlon Rubio
  The Vatican has clarified that Pope Francis’ support of civil unions did not change church doctrine. A theologian explains what Francis is doing is departing from Catholic rhetoric on the family.
• Fabricating science: discussing fraud can rebuild community confidence and deepen understanding of how science works (2016-08-18)
  Darren Curnoe
  It’s an exceptionally rewarding, and also challenging, time to be practising science. Science has never enjoyed the level of public interest it does today thanks to rising education levels and that wonder…
• A new twist in the elusive quest for the origins of the word ‘bogan’ leads to Melbourne’s Xavier College (2019-03-25)
  Bruce Moore
  A 1984 magazine produced by students at Xavier College contains the earliest known reference to the word ‘bogan’ as we now understand it.
• Friday essay: Lessons in Chemistry – the real Prince Charming in this ‘bad romance’ is a good dog (2023-10-05)
  Briohny Doyle
  Briohny Doyle picked up Lessons in Chemistry not for its sassy-romance cover – which this subversive international bestseller does not deliver – but because she heard it featured a ‘good dog’.
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is an early exploration of ‘romance fraud’ (2026-04-24)
  Emma Linford
  Although romance fraud is a 21st-century term, through the character of Havisham, Dickens clearly demonstrated its often-devastating effects.
• Sherlock Holmes and the strange case of anti-intellectualism (2017-01-13)
  Christopher Pittard
  The BBC’s Sherlock – along with most contemporary adaptations – seems to indicate that the values of the intellect are not those of society.
• Presents from a princess: the mission to deliver 2.6 million Christmas gifts to soldiers and sailors on the 1914 frontline (2021-12-16)
  Peter Doyle
  The story of how a teenage princess launched one of the first global charity campaigns.
• Cartoon politics: the literary ghosts of elections past and present (2015-04-21)
  David Francis Taylor
  Books and the ballot box have a long and winding history.
• Why Taylor Swift belongs on English literature degree courses (2024-01-02)
  Clio Doyle
  Miss Americana has been discussed in English literature classes for some years now – sometimes alongside Shakespeare.
• Before the Ouija board: William Rossetti’s diary gives an insight into Victorian séances (2021-12-23)
  Barrie Bullen
  The journal of a Pre-Raphaelite writer might help explain today’s turn to spiritualism.
• Titania McGrath: Twitter parody of ‘wokeness’ owes a lot to satirists of the 18th century (2019-03-15)
  Adam J Smith, Jo Waugh
  Spoof Twitter accounts carry on a grand tradition of satire that has its roots in the 18th century.
• The movie ‘Barbie’ has put the phrase ‘toxic femininity’ back in the news – here’s what it means and why you should care (2023-08-08)
  Karrin Vasby Anderson
  Examining the understandings of what ‘toxic femininity’ means to people can reveal insights about gender, power and the impact of language on health.
• Saint Patrick’s Day and the mystery of the second Patrick (2026-03-16)
  Chris Doyle
  According to one tradition, both men knew one another closely and were each involved in promulgating Christianity in Ireland.
• Why we keep hunting ghosts – and what it says about us (2025-10-20)
  Alice Vernon
  From Victorian séances to TikTok, our hunt for ghosts reveals more about the living than the dead.
• Why we love (and fear) mummies (2017-06-22)
  Christian-Georges Schwentzel
  Mummies are scary but they also fascinate us, giving us the feeling that we can vanquish time by preserving our most perishable feature: flesh.
• The Catholic Church’s grim history of ignoring priestly pedophilia – and silencing would-be whistleblowers (2018-10-09)
  Brian J Clites
  While the problem of priestly abuse might be centuries old, its modern paper trail began after World War II, when ‘treatment centers’ appeared for rehabilitating priests. Many were send to New Mexico.
• ‘Graphic novels are novels’: why the Booker Prize judges were right to choose one for its longlist (2018-07-26)
  Claire Nally
  Graphic novels have a long history and are becoming an ever-more popular way of bringing profound and complex stories to life.