Michelle Rowland

We estimate Michelle Rowland received a parliamentary salary of: $412,740

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: $394,258
• Travel Allowance: $14,280
• Printing and Communications: $85,889
• Office Consumables and Services: $11,000
• Telephonic Services: $10
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $7,289
• Parking: $134
• COMCAR: $6,652
• Telecommunications - Usage: $381
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $829
• Fares: $12,537
• Domestic Travel: $108,259
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $146,999

• Lambie, Hanson and Pocock form unlikely alliance to protect transparency campaigner Rex Patrick
• Politicians and media gather for Canberra’s Midwinter Ball– as it happened
• Creatives sound alarm on copyright as Pocock calls $50bn datacentre proposal ‘ultimate dirty deal’
• Jonno Duniam calls Pauline Hanson’s push for monoculture ‘bizarre’ – as it happened
• OECD says Australia should increase EV and renewable energy take up amid fuel crisis – as it happened
• Labor promised to do something serious about corruption. Now they’ve got a second chance
• Tony Abbott says Liberals in ‘existential crisis’ as he is elected party president – as it happened
• Treasury secretary says ‘no clear evidence’ for CGT reform criticisms – as it happened
• Afternoon Update: Australia sues 3M for record sum; multiple states at risk of flooding; and Patagonia’s drag queen lawsuit
• Australia sues 3M for record $2bn sum over Pfas ‘forever chemicals’ in firefighting foam

• Attorney-General Rowland to repay some travel money; cost of government’s battery subsidy scheme explodes (2025-12-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  As the expenses affairs continues to roll through the Albanese government with Attorney-General Michelle Rowland needing to repay some of the money she billed taxpayers.
• Government settles Robodebt class action appeal for $475 million in compensation (2025-09-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  The settlement is still to be approved by the federal court, would be the largest class action settlement in Australian history.
• Tighter travel rules may be on the way, after Albanese seeks advice from watchdog (2025-12-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese appears to be starting to move towards some tightening of parliamentarians’ travel entitlements. After more than a week of controversy, Albanese on Friday said he had asked…
• The government has announced plans to regulate smart TV home screens: what the new rules mean for you (2023-11-29)
  Ramon Lobato, Alexa Scarlata
  New legislation will require smart TV manufacturers to ensure we can easily find local broadcasters when we turn on our TVs.
• Is Australia’s media market one of the world’s most concentrated? (2016-12-12)
  Tim Dwyer
  Was shadow minister for communications Michelle Rowland right when she said Australia’s level of media ownership concentration is one of the highest in the world?
• Election 2016: the most exciting time to be multicultural in Australia? (2016-05-12)
  Andrew Jakubowicz
  Multicultural issues may not decide the election. But the multicultural voting makeup of many marginal electorates will play a critical part in who wins these seats.
• Grattan on Friday: AI’s opportunities and risks front and centre on Albanese government’s agenda (2026-07-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government believes it can’t allow “the tech bros to let it rip”, as one source puts it. But it can’t allow the country to fall behind the pack either.
• Stop the votes: the seats where the asylum issue resonates most (2013-09-04)
  Jo Coghlan
  The vexed issue of asylum seekers arriving by boat on Australian shores has dominated our political psyche for over a decade. Prime minister Kevin Rudd’s announcement shortly after returning to office…
• Government to impose ‘duty of care’ on digital platforms: Communications Minister Rowland (2024-11-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Albanese government will develop and legislate a “Digital Duty of Care” to place the onus on platforms to keep people safe and better prevent online harms.
• Government to put pressure on opposition with legislation to ensure NBN stays in public hands (2024-10-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Albanese government on Wednesday will introduce legislation to ensure the NBN remains in government ownership.
• Labor reshuffle boosts women in shadow cabinet (2015-10-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Bill Shorten has elevated two more women to his shadow cabinet, giving Labor a total of seven compared with the Turnbull cabinet’s five, in a minor reshuffle of his frontbench.
• Shorten promises to reverse budget cut to the ABC (2018-06-11)
  Michelle Grattan
  Shorten has moved to make the ABC an election issue promising to reverse the Turnbull government’s $83.7 million budget cut and to guarantee funding certainty over the broadcaster’s next budget cycle.
• Labor plummets in marginals (2013-08-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  A poll of eight marginal seats in NSW, Queensland and Victoria has found Labor facing the prospect of a rout, including the failure of former Queensland premier Peter Beattie’s attempt to enter federal…
• Albanese government flags measures to tackle online misogyny in the battle against violence towards women (2024-05-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government will introduce legislation to ban deepfake pornography and devote $925.2 million over five years to establish permanently a program with those eligible able to receive up to $5000.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Kate Chaney on life as a teal MP (2023-02-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  This week, Politics with Michelle Grattan features independent MP Kate Chaney. They discuss climate change, integrity, the economy, challenges of the job and more
• Optus data breach: regulatory changes announced, but legislative reform still needed (2022-10-06)
  Brendan Walker-Munro
  The Australian government will temporarily suspend data-sharing regulations so Optus can work with banks and agencies to prevent identity theft.
• ‘A major shakeup’: the Optus outage has been investigated. What’s going to change now? (2024-05-01)
  Mark A Gregory
  A review of the November 2023 Optus outage has sparked an overhaul for the Triple Zero system and more transparency for telcos.
• ABC and SBS are not distorting media market, government inquiry finds (2018-12-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The outcome will be disappointing to News Corp in particular which has been highly critical of the ABC’s expansion in online publishing.
• Kim Williams to be new ABC chair, described by Albanese as ‘a true renaissance man’ (2024-01-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  The experienced media executive will replace outgoing chair Ita Buttrose in March.
• The ACCC threatens to take Telstra and other ISPs to court over misleading NBN speeds (2017-07-20)
  David Glance
  Internet providers appear to be advertising theoretical, but often unobtainable, broadband speeds.
• Big tech firms like Meta forced to pay for news, under Albanese government’s ‘news bargaining incentive’ charge (2024-12-12)
  Rob Nicholls
  The new plan follows the Morrison government-era system known as the news media bargaining code, which saw companies such as Google and Meta (which owns Facebook) pay news organisations.
• Facebook won’t keep paying Australian media outlets for their content. Are we about to get another news ban? (2024-03-01)
  Rob Nicholls
  The news page on Facebook will go, and with it, the flow of money to some Australian media outlets. But will the news content disappear too?
• Justin Milne quits as ABC chairman after furore over attack on political editor (2018-09-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  According to the report, Milne had said that if Guthrie didn’t fire Probyn, she would be jeopardising half a billion dollars in funding for the proposed Jetstream infrastructure project.
• Labor $2.4 billion plan to expand suburban and regional access to full-fibre NBN (2021-11-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  Labor says that suburbs and regions will benefit from a promised boost of the NBN if it wins government
• Paul Keating unleashes vitriolic attack on Nine’s takeover of Fairfax (2018-07-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  Keating said that for more than half a century, Nine had never done other than display “the opportunism and ethics of an alley cat.”
• The government’s social media ban for kids will exempt ‘low-risk’ platforms. What does that mean? (2024-10-11)
  Lisa M. Given
  Like the whole idea of banning young people from social media, allowing limited access to platforms that have a “low risk of harm” is deeply flawed.
• ‘Digital inclusion’ and closing the gap: how First Nations leadership is key to getting remote communities online (2023-10-23)
  Daniel Featherstone, Lyndon Ormond-Parker
  A new report shows how remote First Nations community face obstacles to digital inclusion – and what can be done to remove them.
• Australia will impose a ‘digital duty of care’ on tech companies to reduce online harm. It’s a good idea – if it can be enforced (2024-11-14)
  Lisa M. Given
  The new proposal is aligned with approaches in the European Union and United Kingdom – and overcomes the flaws of banning people under 16 from social media.
• Greenway, or the place which Jaymes Diaz is trying to represent (2013-09-01)
  James Arvanitakis
  The ultra-marginal seat of Greenway in Sydney’s western suburbs has recently drawn international scrutiny after the embarrassing media performance of the Liberal candidate Jaymes Diaz, who faltered when…
• View from The Hill: Social media age ban all to the good, but can Albanese deliver before election? (2024-09-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  If the government fails to pass legislation, the fallback could be a hodgepodge of state actions.