Michaelia Cash

We estimate Michaelia Cash received a parliamentary salary of: $442,650

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: $191,021
• Printing and Communications: $16,766
• Publications: $5,304
• Office Consumables and Services: $5,836
• Telecommunications - Usage: $456
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $5,310
• COMCAR: $213
• Travel Allowance: $3,384
• Fares: $12,943
• Domestic Travel: $77,101
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $63,708

• PM pledges to ‘do everything we can to protect Australia’ amid Iran fuel crisis – as it happened
• Labor backs Greens inquiry into gas export tax – as it happened
• ACCC calls emergency meeting with fuel suppliers – as it happened
• Two ADF aircraft sent to assist Australians stranded in Middle East – as it happened
• ‘A win for democracy’: Labor abandons freedom of information law changes that would have reduced transparency
• Hanson calls censure motion a ‘stunt’ before leaving chamber – as it happened
• It’s 978 days since Peta Murphy called for a ban on betting ads. What happened to Labor’s pledge to respect parliament? | Josh Butler
• Strong winds overturn boats in Hobart – As it happened
• Tony Burke says Australia has few options to block return of 34 women and children from Syrian camp
• Sky goes dark but a new dawn awaits at News Corp's Holt Street studios | Weekly Beast

• VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on calls for Michaelia Cash’s resignation (2017-10-27)
  Michelle Grattan, Nicholas Klomp
  Nicholas Klomp and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics.
• Politics podcast: Michaelia Cash on union misconduct (2017-03-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government this week introduced a bill that aims to put a stop to secret agreements between employers and unions without the knowledge of union members.
• Jobs Minister Michaelia Cash resists call to give evidence in AWU court case (2018-05-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  Cash has been subpoenaed to appear in the AWU’s case against the ROC as well as to produce documents earlier. But she told a news conference she had instructed lawyers to have the subpoena set aside.
• The case of Michaelia Cash and her leaking adviser illustrates a failure of ministerial responsibility (2017-10-26)
  Yee-Fui Ng
  Australia’s minimal legal and political regulation of ministerial advisers has led to an accountability deficit.
• FactCheck Q&A: can foreign seafarers be paid $2 an hour to work in Australian waters, under laws passed by Labor? (2016-03-14)
  Joanna Howe
  On Q&A, an unemployed merchant seafarer said Australian seafarers could replaced by foreign seafarers working on 457 visas, working for as little as $2 an hour. We check the facts.
• Politics podcast: Michaelia Cash on the government’s push to restore the ABCC (2016-02-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michaelia Cash reveals to Michelle Grattan she is willing to agree to David Leyonhjelm's call for a sunset clause on the ABCC legislation.
• VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the government’s shake-up (2018-03-02)
  Michelle Grattan, Paddy Nixon
  Michelle Grattan speaks with Deep Saini about the week in Australian politics.
• Full response from a spokesman for Michaelia Cash and a spokeswoman for Penny Wong (2016-03-14)
  Sunanda Creagh
  The Conversation is fact-checking assertions made on Q&A around workplace relations in Australian waters. That FactCheck relates to comments made by Employment Minister Michaelia Cash and an audience…
• Grattan on Friday: What was that about making Parliament House a better workplace for women? (2018-03-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  Politicians may agree, at the level of generality, that their discourse should be more civil. Yet in practice, they simply refuse to change.
• Simon Birmingham to become finance minister and Senate leader as Australia nominates Cormann for OECD (2020-10-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced today that following Mathias Cormann’s resignation, Cormann will be nominated as a candidate for secretary general at the OECD.
• Government cracks down on secret company payments to unions (2017-03-20)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government has announced legislation to ban secret payments between employers and unions.
• Australia launches action against Russia over MH17, in bid for reparations (2022-03-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  Australia and the Netherlands have started legal action against Russia in the International Civil Aviation Organisation for the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 on July 17, 2014.
• Cash staff member quits over media tip-offs as AWU affair backfires (2017-10-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  A senior staffer of Employment Minister Michaelia Cash was forced to quit after tipping off the media about police raids on the Australian Workers Union’s offices.
• Sunday penalty rates to be phased down (2017-06-05)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Fair Work Commission said reductions in rates were more significant in retail and pharmacy than in hospitality and fast food.
• Sunday penalty rates cut opens new fight between government and opposition (2017-02-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  Hospitality, fast food, retail and pharmacy workers stand to lose thousands of dollars per year after the Fair Work Commission’s landmark decision to cut penalty rates on Sundays and public holidays.
• Public service begins long journey back to leading on gender equality (2016-04-28)
  Sue Williamson
  Once a model employer for women, the APS is in danger of being left behind
• Protecting migrant workers requires a rethink on employer freedoms (2016-10-07)
  Joanna Howe
  The taskforce must redesign Australia’s rather chaotic and unfair temporary labour migration program.
• Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to be Peter Dutton’s right-hand campaigner against the Voice (2023-04-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  Price, the new shadow minister for Indigenous Australians, has been one of the loudest, most trenchant opponents of the Voice.
• Referendum legislation passes 52-19 to applause but Lidia Thorpe condemns ‘assimilation day’ (2023-06-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  The vote took place with the public gallery crowded with supporters, and was received with long applause.
• In search of authority, Turnbull can’t afford to lose the industrial relations bills (2016-08-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  Dressed predictably if absurdly in a fluoro vest, with Employment Minister Michaelia Cash sporting matching gear, Malcolm Turnbull was out first thing on Wednesday spruiking his industrial relations legislation…
• Grattan on Friday: Turnbull sees even a difficult new Senate as an opportunity for a fresh start (2016-04-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  Malcolm Turnbull says bluntly that he expects the coming special Senate sitting to reject the industrial relations legislation. Labor’s Penny Wong indicates the opposition won’t try to delay the bills.
• Grattan on Friday: Cash takes a hit in the government’s pursuit of Shorten (2017-10-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government’s obvious attempt to use the recently established Registered Organisations Commission for political purposes is an abuse of power.
• View from The Hill: Minister who watches the nation’s credit card overlooks his own (2019-02-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  It’s reasonable to take Cormann at his word about missing that the change hadn’t been processed. Even accepting this, however, the affair looks bad for Cormann, who failed the “Caesar’s wife” test.
• No science minister, and it’s unclear where science fits in Australia (2018-03-05)
  Sarah Maddison
  Right now, for the second time since 1931, there is no minister directly responsible for science in Australia.
• Liberals deride quotas for women MPs but how are they going to make targets work? (2016-07-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  Before the election Malcolm Turnbull had no trouble calling himself a feminist but now his party has had its woman problem highlighted by the result. There will only be 13 women among the 60 (assuming…
• Grattan on Friday: Scott Morrison dealt poorly with a young woman’s shocking story (2021-02-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  Scott Morrison has been wounded by the revelation this week of an alleged rape in Parliament House. But the fear must be that Brittany Higgins has become a victim twice over – of the incident itself and the fallout these past days.
• Grattan on Friday: Winners and losers on the tests of judgement, temperament and character (2018-05-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  The voters are like sniffer dogs when it comes to character – if that hadn’t been the case Mark Latham might have won the 2004 election.
• Grattan on Friday: The worst is not over in the crisis tearing at Scott Morrison’s government (2021-03-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  “Is your leadership safe?” Scott Morrison was asked on Thursday. The Prime Minister’s leadership is quite safe, but that the question was put says volumes for how embattled he’s become in a few weeks.
• Turnbull government secures ABCC – but suffers sudden defeat on backpacker tax (2016-11-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Turnbull government has finally passed its signature legislation to restore a tough watchdog in the construction industry.
• Deal on whistleblowers wins first double-dissolution bill (2016-11-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  The first part of the Coalition’s industrial relations reform is in place following a late-night Senate vote.