Murray Watt

We estimate Murray Watt received a parliamentary salary of: $376,850

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: $324,202
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $411
• Telecommunications - Usage: $166
• Travel Allowance: $17,185
• Office Consumables and Services: $4,100
• Printing and Communications: $2,144
• Publications: $117
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $4,451
• COMCAR: $8,123
• Fares: $33,821
• Domestic Travel: $179,628
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $74,056

• Labor ‘not considering’ joining US blockade of strait of Hormuz – as it happened
• What is Queensland’s Taroom trough and could it really be hiding a ‘sea of oil’?
• As the fuel crisis worsens and more sectors call for help, Labor must be prepared to make tough choices
• WA premier issues transparency warning to fuel suppliers – as it happened
• Queensland government scraps emissions target for Brisbane Olympics – as it happened
• Morning Mail: Trump rages at allies over Iran war, rate hike ‘double whammy’, Matildas beat China to make final
• Australia’s environment minister wants to ban fishers and drillers from more ocean – and avoid a culture war
• ‘Beggars belief’: calls for federal intervention after extension to ‘carbon bomb’ open-cut coalmine approved by Queensland government
• ACCC calls emergency meeting with fuel suppliers – as it happened
• Albanese government rejected advice on Tasmanian salmon farming impact before passing pro-industry laws

• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Murray Watt on the compromises to pass new environmental laws before Christmas (2025-11-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  With only one sitting week of Parliament left this year, the environment minister reveals the compromises he’s willing to make and the hard lines he won’t cross to get the deal done.
• Can Murray Watt fix Australia’s broken nature laws? First stop, Western Australia (2025-05-20)
  Justine Bell-James
  Australia’s nature laws are now in even worse shape than when Labor was elected in 2022. But this is why things could be different this term.
• It’s a hard job being environment minister. Here’s an insider’s view of the key challenges facing Murray Watt (2025-05-13)
  Peter Burnett
  Labor’s whopping majority doesn’t mean environmental reform will be any easier. When economy and environment clash, the economy usually wins.
• View from The Hill: Albanese shifts Tanya Plibersek from environment, in favour of ‘can-do’ Murray Watt (2025-05-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The prime minister’s new cabinet dumps a couple, promotes others and leaves some holding political short straws.
• 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.
• Grattan on Friday: when the music stopped, Greens had out-stepped flat-footed Liberals on environment deal (2025-11-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government finally got through its environmental laws, doing the deal with the Greens, leaving the Liberals hung out to dry.
• Grattan on Friday: Libs should reflect on proverb ‘As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly’ (2025-10-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Liberals have faced an existential crisis over climate and energy policy while the government races to get its environmental laws through parliament.
• Grattan on Friday: have we heard the CFMEU’s last hurrah or seen the start of its trench warfare? (2024-08-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  The CFMEU is raging about being routed by a government that had no option – after turning a blind eye for too long to known and suspected malfeasance.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sarah Hanson-Young on the social media ban as a risky ‘fake silver bullet’ (2025-12-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Greens’ senator says she’s worried kids will end up ‘in other online spaces that are even darker and more dangerous’ – and Australia should act on other options.
• Woodside’s North West Shelf approval is by no means a one-off. Here are 6 other giant gas projects to watch (2025-06-04)
  Samantha Hepburn
  Despite warnings of a climate catastrophe, a slew of polluting gas projects are either poised to begin or lie firmly in industry’s sights.