Matt O'Sullivan

We estimate Matt O'Sullivan 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: $122,931
• Office Consumables and Services: $4,878
• Printing and Communications: $4,234
• Telecommunications - Usage: $675
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $2,219
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $10,203
• COMCAR: $545
• Travel Allowance: $10,114
• Fares: $23,719
• Parliamentary Duties: $736
• Domestic Travel: $21,847
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $43,761

• The Fiver | Heroically unthinkable last-day comedy face-palm | Barry Glendenning

• 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.
• Peter Dutton’s reshuffle: David Coleman the surprise choice as shadow foreign minister (2025-01-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Peter Dutton has chosen David Coleman for the key shadow foreign affairs portfolio, in a reshuffle that also seeks to boost the opposition’s credentials with women.
• A Senate inquiry is calling for a new ‘behaviour curriculum’ to try and tackle classroom disruptions (2023-12-02)
  Erin Leif
  A Senate inquiry has found Australian students need specific instruction in how to behave.
• 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.
• Queensland Nationals Barry O'Sullivan’s advice on the Joyce affair: ‘don’t shoot your best horse’ (2018-02-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Barry O'Sullivan has declared that Barnaby Joyce remains a big asset to the Nationals despite the sharp grassroots reaction to his affair with his former staffer.
• Grattan on Friday: Double dissolution chatter undermines Abbott’s need to project stability (2015-03-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  One government man has an interesting theory on why Tony Abbott mightn’t mind talk of a double dissolution election. The PM finds governing very hard – and would love to be back on the campaign trail.
• Marriage bill clears Senate – now for the lower house (2017-11-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  The same-sex marriage bill has passed the Senate, after all the amendments to insert protections and restrictions were voted down.
• Nationals buck government line on Adler (2016-11-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  Two Nationals crossed the floor and four others failed to vote on a motion from Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm to disallow the import ban on the Adler lever-action shotgun.
• Turnbull backed against the wall by rebel Nationals on bank inquiry (2017-11-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison appear to have become hostages to rebel Nationals determined at all costs to secure a commission of inquiry into the banks.
• Newspoll 54-46 to Labor as Turnbull’s ratings fall back (2017-08-22)
  Adrian Beaumont
  This week’s Newspoll, conducted 17-20 August from a sample of 1770, has broken the string of six consecutive 53-47 leads for Labor. Labor had a 54-46 lead, a one point gain since last fortnight. Primary…
• Queensland result, while decided on state issues, adds to Turnbull’s burdens (2017-11-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  Malcolm Turnbull may say that the Queensland election was decided on state issues, but there are plenty of lessons for the federal LNP in the results.
• All the Olympics are a stage, and all the athletes merely players: the rich history of the modern Games (2016-07-27)
  Tim Olds
  The Olympic Games are a theatre — sometimes farce, sometimes tragedy, reality TV, morality play or soap opera — where geopolitical, social and technological dramas are played out.
• Grattan on Friday: If High Court disqualifies Canavan, Joyce will be scratching for cabinet replacement (2017-07-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  Even if Matt Canavan survives, his immediate absence from cabinet is a blow to Barnaby Joyce.
• 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’.
• Deconstructing our hopes for self-regulating house prices (2014-11-21)
  Kenneth Gibb
  There is a nice weather map cartoon by Matt featuring the UK characterised by the varied intensity of dinner table house price conversation. And it is not just that we are obsessed with property values…