Murray Watt

The 10 most recent “Aye” and “No” votes recorded in the Australian Parliament's own division records this term, sourced directly from aph.gov.au independently of the voting-record data above.

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: $327,600
• Office Consumables and Services: $13,084
• Printing and Communications: $11,244
• Telephonic Services: $4,641
• Publications: $60
• Travel Allowance: $14,764
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $4,569
• Parking: $82
• COMCAR: $8,155
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $308
• Telecommunications - Usage: $50
• Fares: $41,831
• Domestic Travel: $172,838
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $55,974

• Court overturns Tanya Plibersek’s protection order which stalled controversial NSW goldmine
• Climate protester restrained after interrupting NSW parliament – as it happened
• ‘Lawyers should be running to courts’ to stop coal approvals after landmark ruling, NSW MP says
• One Nation senator pays back more than $3,300 in taxi expenses; Cleary tells fans ‘I’ll be back’ – as it happened
• Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents
• Pocock calls for AI safety act after Medicare breach – as it happened
• PM rejects ‘nonsense’ suggestion he delayed revealing OpenAI Medicare hack as Labor considers changing laws
• Fugitive developer tells Icac ‘my money is still in their account’ when pressed on paying ‘the boys’ for political outcomes – as it happened
• Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce stayed at Gina Rinehart’s $20m mansion after One Nation fundraisers
• Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’

• 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.
• Ken Henry urges nature law reform after decades of ‘intergenerational bastardry’ (2025-07-16)
  Phillipa C. McCormack
  In his National Press Club address, Former Treasury Secretary Ken Henry made the case for urgent, ambitious nature law reform to boost productivity while saving species.
• Australia’s old environment laws were a box-ticking exercise. Sadly, the new ones could be too (2026-05-27)
  Justine Bell-James
  These long-delayed laws took three years, a new Environment Minister and a slew of compromises to be passed.
• FactCheck Q&A: how much was spent on the Cambodia refugee deal and how many were settled? (2016-11-21)
  Madeline Gleeson
  After Australia announced a refugee deal with the US, Labor’s Kate Ellis told Q&A that millions of dollars were spent on an earlier deal with Cambodia, yet very few lives were changed. Is that right?
• West Australian miners flexed their muscle to block a federal EPA last year. Will it be different this time? (2025-06-20)
  Diane Dowdell
  Murray Watt came to the role of environment minister with a reputation as a fixer. The question now is, what will he trade to get WA miners on side?
• Grattan on Friday: whatever his policy, Peter Dutton will be a big target on workplace relations (2024-10-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government is looking to reach for workplace issues as a potential lifeline. IR is made for a ferocious Labor scare campaign that the Coalition will find extremely difficult to counter.
• Albanese government will introduce legislation next week to force an administrator into the CFMEU (2024-08-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Albanese government next week will introduce legislation to force the appointment of an administrator into the recalcitrant CFMEU, after the union tried a delaying tactic to drag out court action.
• Liberals retain Fadden with a small swing (2023-07-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  The federal Opposition have retained the Gold Coast seat of Fadden with a two-party swing of about 2%.
• Labor MP charged over alleged assault on Northern Territory Administrator (2026-07-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  NT Police said the alleged incident took place at a public event on Saturday July 18.
• Government’s preventative detention for ex-detainees who pose serious risks set to pass this week (2023-12-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  New preventative detention legislation will be brought into the Senate as an amendment. The changes will allow the preventative detention of those who are considered a terrorist risk.
• Linda Burney and Brendan O'Connor step down from frontbench as Albanese prepares to reshuffle ministry (2024-07-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Cabinet ministers Linda Burney and Brendan O'Connor will be standing down from the frontbench, opening vacancies for Anthony Albanese to reshuffle his ministry.
• View from The Hill: Albanese government resorts to whatever-it-takes to rid Australia of former detainees (2025-08-31)
  Michelle Grattan
  the Nauru parliament announced a deal between the Home Affairs Minister and Nauru for that country to accept up to 280 former immigration detainees from Australia.
• Coalition promises Australian version of United States’ RICO act to target CFMEU (2025-03-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Albanese government has responded by saying Australia doesn’t need an ‘American racketeering law’.
• Flooded Home Buyback scheme helps wash away the pain for Queenslanders (2023-02-21)
  Margaret Cook
  Building on floodplains was never a good idea and climate change makes matters worse. But in Queensland, Voluntary Home Buybacks are working for Ipswich, a year on from the devastating floods.
• Promoted as a win-win, Australia’s Pacific island guest worker scheme is putting those workers at risk (2024-10-22)
  Matt Withers
  Unlike Australian workers, guest workers from Pacific nations are denied the right to switch employers. Thousands who have fled bad employers live in Australia informally without support.
• Labor’s plan to fast track appointment of administrator to CFMEU could be delayed by Greens and Coalition (2024-08-12)
  The bill gives the administrator sweeping powers, and the minister significant discretion to move the CFMEU into administration without going through the usual parliamentary scrutiny.
• Joyce repays supporters and demotes opponents in a ‘reward and punishment’ reshuffle (2021-06-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Nationals Senate leader Bridget McKenzie has been restored to cabinet and Darren Chester has been dropped to the backbench in a reshuffle of blatant reward and punishment following Barnaby Joyce’s elevation.
• View from The Hill: Amid their ugly fighting over Gaza visas, will Labor and Coalition land deals this week on CFMEU and NDIS? (2024-08-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  Amid continued fractious debate about visas for Palestinians, the Albanese government will be trying in parliament this week to “land” two crucial pieces of legislation.
• Stormy weather: here’s what went wrong with the Bureau of Meteorology’s website redesign (2025-10-29)
  Steve Turton
  The backlash was swift and intense. Now the Bureau of Meteorology will have to make changes to its new website.
• Australia has new laws to protect nature. Do they signal an end to native forest logging? (2025-12-08)
  David Lindenmayer
  What do Australia’s new nature laws mean for native forests? The reforms closed a loophole that stopped legal scrutiny of logging. But we need the full detail.
• By sending non-visa holders to Nauru, Australia is shifting its responsibilities (2025-09-01)
  Mary Anne Kenny, Lisa van Toor
  The non-citizens in the NZYQ group cannot be returned to their country of origin. But sending them to Nauru just pushes the issue onto a poorer country.