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: $428,157
• Printing and Communications: $61,214
• Office Consumables and Services: $6,940
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $674
• Telecommunications - Usage: $254
• Travel Allowance: $7,726
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $8,036
• COMCAR: $6,880
• Fares: $11,933
• Domestic Travel: $162,261
• International Travel: $6,508
• Ministerial Visits: $6,145
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $149,588

• Bowen says Geelong fire appears to be accidental; Keating lashes Liberals– as it happened
• Australians buy record number of new EVs – as it happened
• National auction clearance rate hits lowest point since 2022 – as it happened
• We cannot celebrate tinkering when it comes to gambling reform. Labor’s response falls tragically short | David Pocock
• Albanese announces crackdown on gambling ads, but falls well short of Labor’s own calls for total ban
• 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
• Queensland government scraps emissions target for Brisbane Olympics – as it happened
• PM calls national cabinet meeting over fuel crisis – as it happened
• After nearly three years, the robodebt report’s secret chapter has been unsealed. What does it reveal?

• 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.
• 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.
• Yes, Labor’s misinformation bill could jeopardise free speech online (2023-09-12)
  Jay Daniel Thompson
  The bill, yet to be debated in parliament, is ripe for amendment.