Mehreen Faruqi

We estimate Mehreen Faruqi 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: $130,550
• Office Consumables and Services: $2,194
• Printing and Communications: $7,500
• Telecommunications - Usage: $485
• Travel Allowance: $7,455
• Fares: $16,511
• COMCAR: $3,563
• Domestic Travel: $28,068
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $64,774

• Australians buy record number of new EVs – as it happened
• Labor accused of avoiding promise to rein in controversial Morrison-era university fees scheme
• ASX suffers more heavy losses as Middle East crisis spooks investors – as it happened
• Payman, Thorpe and Faruqi demand Labor change parliamentary rules to counter ‘overt’ racism
• ACCC calls emergency meeting with fuel suppliers – as it happened
• Major parties knock back inquiry into racism and sexism in the Senate – as it happened
• International students accuse Australia of treating them like ATMs after fees for one visa double without warning
• Hanson calls censure motion a ‘stunt’ before leaving chamber – as it happened
• Government announces review of triple zero laws – as it happened
• Nearly 20% fewer lower socioeconomic students studying law as Pocock calls to scrap Morrison-era job-ready scheme

• Fresh start for the Greens, with new leader Larissa Waters (2025-05-15)
  Nathan Fioritti
  Larissa Waters will be tasked with rebuilding the Greens in the lower house after its near election wipe out and managing the sole balance of power in the Senate
• Adam Bandt elected unopposed as new Greens leader (2020-02-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Greens’ only House of Representatives member, Adam Bandt, is the party’s new leader, elected unanimously after Richard Di Natale’s decision to leave parliament. Bandt, 47, has held the inner city seat…
• The Greens want to cancel all student debt – but this will not make uni education ‘free’ (2024-11-13)
  Bruce Chapman
  Higher education services – like healthcare, food and roads – do not magically drop out of the sky. It costs money to run university campuses, infrastructure and pay for teaching and research.
• Free childcare ends July 12, with sector losing JobKeeper but receiving temporary payment (2020-06-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government has announced childcare will return to the mean-tested system that was in place before the coronavirus pandemic hit.
• Zoe’s Law: will changing foetuses’ legal status endanger abortion rights? (2013-09-13)
  Helen Pringle
  A proposed law being debated in the New South Wales parliament that aims to recognise the foetus as a person has sparked concerns about encroachments on women’s reproductive rights. But similar laws in…
• Paid parental leave needs an overhaul if governments want us to have ‘one for the country’ (2020-09-13)
  Sarah Duffy, Michelle O'Shea, Patrick van Esch
  If governments are looking for a post-pandemic “baby boom” to help populations grow, then they should increase the amount and duration of paid parental leave for both mums and partners.
• 2 out of 3 members of university governing bodies have no professional expertise in the sector. There’s the making of a crisis (2021-11-29)
  Alessandro Pelizzon, Adam Lucas, David Noble, Fran Baum, James Guthrie, Justin O'Connor, Oliver Vodeb, Peter Tregear, Renaud Joannes-Boyau, Richard Hil, Siobhan Irving, Stephen Lake
  Universities supposedly have adopted a more corporate approach – but most corporate board members have expertise in the area their company operates in and are more accountable to shareholders.
• After 119 years, NSW is set to decriminalise abortion. Why has reform taken so long? (2019-08-08)
  Helen Pringle
  Although abortions have been legally performed in NSW for years, doctors have long called for greater clarity in the law in regard to the possible criminality of their actions.
• Online abuse against women is rife, but some women suffer more – and we need to step up for them (2022-06-02)
  Hannah Klose, Sahana Sarkar
  When Mehreen Faruqi first became the first Australian Muslim senator, she didn’t expect to receive the amount of abuse she did.
• AI facial analysis is scientifically questionable. Should we be using it for border control? (2021-02-23)
  Niamh Kinchin
  Innovative border control technologies may be great for governments cracking down on migration — but they could further disadvantage groups that are already vulnerable.
• Why Modi’s India has become a dangerous place for Muslims (2020-03-03)
  Priya Chacko, Ruchira Talukdar
  India’s leader has appealed for ‘peace and brotherhood’ after last week’s violence left 43 dead in Delhi. In Modi’s India, however, brotherhood requires religious minorities to know their place.
• Grattan on Friday: Bitter struggle in Liberals for likely poisoned chalice, as Jacinta Price defects from Nationals (2025-05-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  With both the Liberals and Greens now leaderless, the race is on to refresh the leadership before the new parliament sits.
• Grattan on Friday: Albanese will need some nuance in facing a female opposition leader (2025-06-05)
  Michelle Grattan
  Albanese has been in Parliament for nearly 30 years, but with Australia’s first female opposition leader will have to find new footing.
• Labor and the Greens don’t get along. Here’s why (2023-06-04)
  Mark Kenny
  As they fight for the affections of the same voters, the two parties have engaged in a particularly nasty debate over housing.
• Friday essay: how Western attitudes towards Islam have changed (2019-04-25)
  Philip C. Almond
  For centuries, Westerners viewed Islam as an inherently violent religion. But the struggle today, for all religions, including Christianity, is between liberals and conservatives, fundamentalists and moderates, reason and revelation.