Melissa Price

We estimate Melissa Price 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: $294,967
• Office Consumables and Services: $1,994
• Printing and Communications: $36,898
• Publications: $263
• Telecommunications - Usage: $917
• Travel Allowance: $13,969
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $11,464
• COMCAR: $4,694
• Electorate Duties: $14,747
• Parliamentary Duties: $72
• Fares: $71,613
• Domestic Travel: $55,507
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $82,827

• ASX suffers more heavy losses as Middle East crisis spooks investors – as it happened
• ACCC calls emergency meeting with fuel suppliers – as it happened
• Angus Taylor unveils Coalition frontbench with Tim Wilson as shadow treasurer and Nationals returned
• New leader targets immigration in first comments after spill – as it happened
• Thousands gather at Melbourne Herzog protest – as it happened
• Angus Taylor will challenge for the Liberal leadership – but who will be the deputy?
• Pocock criticises lack of scrutiny for nature laws – as it happened
• Sussan Ley announces shadow ministry reshuffle after Nampijinpa Price demotion – as it happened
• Husic says Australia should be ‘prepared’ for other nations to sanction Israel – as it happened
• Price says some Liberals still back nuclear – as it happened

• Why splitting the energy and climate portfolios makes sense (2018-09-02)
  Mike Young
  Splitting the energy and environment portfolios might sound like a backward step, but here’s why it could work.
• Morrison government approves next step towards Adani coal mine (2019-04-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  The decision, taken by Price, comes after public pressure from Queensland LNP members, including a threat by McGrath to publicly call for her resignation if she failed to treat the project fairly.
• Australia listened to the science on coronavirus. Imagine if we did the same for coal mining (2020-05-11)
  Matthew Currell, Adrian Werner, Chris McGrath, Dylan Irvine
  New research reveals how governments ignored decades’ worth of scientific advice on how the Adani mine threatened to damage precious water supplies.
• View from The Hill: It’s the internal agitators who are bugging Scott Morrison on Adani (2019-04-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Some from the Queensland LNP, including Matt Canavan, and Barnaby Joyce, are screaming for Environment Minister Melissa Price to act; southern Liberals are praying she doesn’t.
• Angus Taylor defeats Sussan Ley by hefty margin of 34-17 as Liberal leader (2026-02-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Angus Taylor has defeated Sussan Ley for Liberal leader by a hefty margin of 34-17, giving him strong authority.
• Julie Bishop goes to backbench, Marise Payne becomes new foreign minister (2018-08-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison has unveiled his ministry, rewarding his supporters who also making room for some Peter Dutton supporters - with the exception of Tony Abbott.
• Infographic: who’s who in the new Morrison ministry (2019-05-29)
  Justin Bergman
  Scott Morrison’s new ministry includes a few new faces and several new roles for familiar cabinet members. Our experts take a closer look at each portfolio.
• Promotions for Morrison allies in post-Porter ministerial reshuffle (2021-10-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  Scott Morrison has promoted two of his closest allies in a reshuffle that follows Christian Porter’s recent departure from the ministry.
• View from The Hill: Conservative Liberals hold ‘power walk’ before delivering coup de grâce to net zero (2025-11-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Liberals are set to dump net zero with a strong majority of the party room speaking out against the policy.
• Just ten MPs represent more than 600 threatened species in their electorates (2017-09-11)
  James Watson, April Reside, Brooke Williams, Hugh Possingham, Martine Maron, Michelle Ward, Richard Fuller, Scott Consaul Atkinson, Stephen Kearney
  Just a handful of federal members of parliament represent hundreds of Australia’s threatened species.
• View from The Hill: Third debate contained some messages about and from the leaders (2019-05-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Morrison’s questions were on Labor’s superannuation and negative gearing policies; Shorten’s were on Labor policies too, as he challenged Morrison over cancer funding and child care.
• Find out what threatened plants and animals live in your electorate (and what your MP can do about it) (2022-05-02)
  Gareth Kindler, James Watson, Nick Kelly
  The goal of our new web app is to help users engage with their elected representatives and put imperilled species on the political agenda this election and beyond.
• Big firms voice lack of faith in ‘cumbersome’ and ‘impractical’ Emissions Reduction Fund (2018-10-14)
  Jayanthi Kumarasiri, Abeyratna Gunasekarage, Christine Jubb
  The federal government has signalled its intent to prolong the Emissions Reduction Fund. But surveys of business leaders reveal widespread cynicism about a scheme perceived as politicised and bureaucratic.
• Unpacking the flaws in Adani’s water management plan (2019-04-30)
  Matthew Currell, Adrian Werner
  Adani has promised to fix its groundwater plan – but that might not be possible.
• 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.
• View from The Hill: Morrison rewards friends, avoids making enemies and announces new ambassadors (2019-05-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  Morrison’s new team mixes stability with dashes of innovation, box ticking, and the rewarding of friends.
• Pacific nations aren’t cash-hungry, minister, they just want action on climate change (2018-10-18)
  Katerina Teaiwa
  At a time when the future of many Pacific islands is under threat, a little compassion is in order, not barbs at their expense.
• Turnbull’s reshuffle undermined by Barnaby Joyce’s ousting of Darren Chester (2017-12-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  Malcolm Turnbull’s reshuffled cabinet has five new faces, but one of the Nationals’ best performers has been unceremoniously dumped by his party leader.
• View from The Hill: Lots of ministry spots to fill if Morrison wins, while many Shorten ministers would return to a familiar cabinet room (2019-05-06)
  Michelle Grattan
  The reason we know more about a post-election Labor ministry is that most of its occupants are already “shadowing” the jobs they’d hold.
• Grattan on Friday: Morrison fights political fire with leaky buckets (2018-10-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Scott Morrison, unless his prayers for a political miracle are answered, will go down as the fireman who arrived late armed only with leaky buckets to confront a building ablaze and collapsing.
• Traditional owners still stand in Adani’s way (2019-04-17)
  Kristen Lyons, Morgan Brigg
  An appeal to the full court of the Federal Court still stands in the way of Adani’s proposed Carmichael coal mine.
• Whichever way you spin it, Australia’s greenhouse emissions have been climbing since 2015 (2019-06-06)
  Tim Baxter
  Australia’s new emissions data for the December 2018 quarter show a rise on the previous quarter, although the raw figures actually dropped. Here’s what that all means.
• Green light for Tasmanian wilderness tourism development defied expert advice (2018-10-16)
  Brendan Gogarty, Nick Fitzgerald, Phillipa C. McCormack
  Newly revealed documents show the Commonwealth government approved a controversial tourism plan for Tasmania’s World Heritage wilderness without assessing it against federal conservation legislation.
• View from The Hill: Morrison sets up his own women’s network but will it produce the policy goods? (2021-03-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  With his cabinet reshuffle Scott Morrison hopes to make his “women’s problems” a whole-of-government challenge.
• View from The Hill: Should Labor jump to new generation leader – and Morrison steal some Shorten policies? (2019-05-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  Observers will lament that Saturday’s result shows it is impossible for an opposition to win with a robust change agenda. It might, however, be the case that just too much was piled into it.
• View from The Hill: Fleeing ministers fray hayband round embattled government (2019-03-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  The prime minister is remaining stoic about the loss of a batch of ministers ahead of this year’s election, but in truth it points to the Coalition’s dim chances of re-election.
• Be worried when fossil fuel lobbyists support current environmental laws (2020-05-19)
  Chris McGrath
  Our environmental laws work in the favour of mining interests – even when the industry itself claims otherwise.
• In Australia, climate policy battles are endlessly reheated (2019-04-08)
  Marc Hudson
  We’ve been here before. In fact we’ve been going round in circles on climate policy for decades, while the temperature (of the debate, as well as the planet) climbs ever higher.
• Enough ‘gotcha’ campaign coverage. Here are five ways the media can better cover elections (2019-06-03)
  Rodney Tiffen
  After this election, the major parties will review their campaign strategies. It’s time the media did the same and found ways to improve their coverage for future campaigns.
• Key challenges for the re-elected Coalition government: our experts respond (2019-05-19)
  Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Miranda Stewart, Peter Goss, Phillip O'Neill, Stephen Duckett
  Now that the Coalition has won the federal election, how will it meet its campaign promises on taxes, the environment, education, health and infrastructure?