Nick McKim

We estimate Nick McKim received a parliamentary salary of: $239,270

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: $88,340
• Printing and Communications: $9,120
• Office Consumables and Services: $9,568
• Publications: $350
• Parliamentary Duties: $326
• Travel Allowance: $7,974
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $4,337
• COMCAR: $1,899
• Telecommunications - Usage: $323
• Fares: $7,946
• Domestic Travel: $12,130
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $34,366

• Queensland government scraps emissions target for Brisbane Olympics – as it happened
• PM calls national cabinet meeting over fuel crisis – as it happened
• Central bank increases cash rate amid global energy shock – as it happened
• ‘Blue-sky flood’ as waters reach outskirts of Longreach – as it happened
• Fuel supply and Middle East conflict dominate political debate – as it happened
• Chalmers signals ‘belt tightening’ to come in May budget – as it happened
• Coles admits in court to strong-arming supplier amid ‘Down Down’ campaign – as it happened
• BoM warns of ‘classic fire spike day’ for Victoria – as it happened
• Morning Mail: Taylor poised to take Liberal leadership, Trump’s gift to billionaire polluters, Australia’s moguls gold
• Afternoon Update: Taylor launches Liberal leadership tilt; Minns doubles down over Sydney rally; and how hot is Jacob Elordi?

• Partial exclusion for Lee Rhiannon after marathon special Greens meeting (2017-06-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  The issues with Lee Rhiannon involved trust in her, and the ability of the hardline NSW branch to bind MPs.
• View from The Hill: The Greens’ demands on the RBA make for bad economic policy. Is it also crazy politics? (2024-09-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  When the Greens tell Labor they’re ready to negotiate, what they usually mean is they’re preparing to make populist demands that can’t or shouldn’t be met.
• Greens’ election hubris – how the minor party lost its way and now its leader (2025-05-08)
  Josh Holloway
  The Greens will be searching for a new way forward and now a new leader, with Adam Bandt conceding he has lost his seat.
• Grattan on Friday: A government in a big hurry gives opposition some wins on ex-detainees (2023-11-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  The High Court isn’t usually front and centre in politics. But when it is, it can land unexpected punches that throw governments off balance.
• Pulp mill politics set to dominate Tasmanian election (2014-01-20)
  Kate Crowley
  Tasmanian premier Lara Giddings cleared the way for the state to head to the polls late last week. Having sacked Greens ministers Nick McKim and Cassy O'Connor from her Cabinet, Giddings set the election…
• Di Natale takes Hanson-Young out of asylum seeker area (2016-08-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Sarah Hanson-Young – a loud voice on asylum-seeker issues – has lost a battle with her leader, Richard Di Natale, to keep her immigration portfolio in the Greens reshuffle.
• Adam Bandt elected unopposed as new Greens leader (2020-02-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Greens’ only House of Representatives member, Adam Bandt, is the party’s new leader, elected unanimously after Richard Di Natale’s decision to leave parliament. Bandt, 47, has held the inner city seat…
• Woolworths chief Brad Banducci couldn’t give senators his company’s ‘return on equity’. What exactly is this figure, and what can it tell us about a company’s profit? (2024-04-16)
  Sean Pinder
  Both are measures of profitability, but the disparity between return on investment and return on equity grows larger as a company relies more heavily on borrowing.
• Tasmanian Senate result: 5 Labor, 4 Liberals, 2 Greens, 1 Lambie (2016-07-27)
  Adrian Beaumont
  Today the “Button” was pressed to distribute preferences for the Tasmanian Senate. On final primary votes, Labor had 4.37 quotas, the Liberals 4.23, the Greens 1.45, Jacqui Lambie 1.08 and One Nation 0.33…
• Cliffhanger in South Australia but Labor rout in Tasmania (2014-03-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  The result of the South Australian election remains in the balance, while Tasmanians have voted overwhelmingly to throw out Lara Giddings’ Labor government and also delivered a hefty slap to the Greens…
• Final Tasmanian and SA Polls (2014-03-14)
  Adrian Beaumont
  It is virtually certain that the Liberals will win a clear majority in today’s Tasmanian election. In South Australia, a hung Parliament now looks plausible, though a Liberal majority is still more likely…
• Safe assisted dying laws are possible, so let’s make them (2013-05-07)
  Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Robert Douglas
  A report we recently prepared with independent think tank Australia21 calls for state governments to institute laws allowing and regulating voluntary euthanasia and assisted suicide – in defined and limited…
• Dutton back in spotlight after split Senate report on au pair affair (2018-09-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Greens will try to move a no confidence motion against the home affairs minister, but the numbers are not there for it to succeed - proving government members are united.
• Coalition very likely to win majority after taking lead in 76 seats (2016-07-09)
  Adrian Beaumont
  A week after the election, postal votes in Queensland have continued to flow very strongly to the Coalition. As a result, they have now taken narrow leads in Flynn, where Labor had 51.6% Two Party Preferred…
• Greens senator Larissa Waters forced out of parliament (2017-07-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  Greens senator Larissa Waters was forced to resign on Tuesday after she discovered she was still a citizen of Canada.
• Capital gains tax discount ‘skewed’ housing towards investors: Senate inquiry (2026-03-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  The committee said it had consistently heard that the current design of the discount “can distort decision making and incentivise tax planning”.
• New inquiry into conduct of George Brandis (2016-11-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  George Brandis faces the second inquiry within months into his conduct.
• Near enough may not be good enough as parliament’s dual citizenship crisis deepens (2017-12-06)
  Lorraine Finlay
  That it has taken more than five months and a compulsory declaration procedure for some MPs’ dual citizenship issues to come to light reflects extremely badly on them.
• Curriculum review: where did ‘Judeo-Christian’ come from? (2014-01-13)
  Chloe Patton
  Education minister Christopher Pyne has copped it from the Left with both barrels for demanding that the Australian education curriculum teach students “the significance of Judeo-Christian values to our…
• Tasmania could lead the way for voluntary euthanasia laws (2013-02-07)
  Ben White, Lindy Willmott
  Tasmanian Premier Lara Giddings and Leader of the Tasmanian Greens Nick McKim have released a discussion paper that outlines and seeks comment on a proposed framework for “voluntary assisted dying”. The…
• Leaders agree to hand over driver licence data as part of COAG counter-terror package (2017-10-05)
  Michelle Grattan
  The states’ handover of driver licence data for a beefed up national facial biometric matching capability would only bring existing arrangements into ‘real time’.
• Tasmania election: what is the Hare-Clark system? (2014-03-11)
  Wayne McLean
  After trading blows around predictable topics, the only issue of consensus in a recent televised debate between the leaders of the Tasmanian Liberal and Labor parties, Will Hodgman and Lara Giddings, was…
• So, how did the new Senate voting rules work in practice? (2016-08-05)
  Stephen Morey
  The new Senate is representative of the wide range of views in Australia – and far more so than the House of Representatives.
• The Lowe road – the RBA treads a ‘narrow path’ (2023-02-17)
  John Hawkins
  Reserve Bank of Australia governor Philip Lowe is unrepentant about the prospect of further interest-rate rises. In fact, he says there’s a risk the bank is not doing enough.
• Will the Labor-Green alliance in Tasmania end in tears? (2013-11-06)
  Tony McCall
  Tasmania’s Labor-Green minority state government is in deep political trouble. Five months out from an anticipated March state election, the government is not waving but drowning. Labor has been in power…
• Coalition government would bring in divestiture power to deal with recalcitrant supermarkets (2024-07-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Nationals have had a major win in having the opposition commit give the ACCC divestiture powers.
• Australia’s safeguard mechanism deal is only a half-win for the Greens, and for the climate (2023-03-28)
  Kate Crowley
  Australia’s new climate deal contains wins for the Greens – but the negotiations were bruising
• Newspoll 55-45 to Labor as Turnbull’s better PM lead falls to 2. Qld and Alabama polling (2017-11-14)
  Adrian Beaumont
  This week’s Newspoll, conducted 9-12 November from a sample of 1630, gave Labor a 55-45 lead, a one point gain for Labor since last fortnight, and their largest Newspoll lead since February. Primary votes…
• Joan Kirner, a pioneering leader for the Left as well as women (2015-06-02)
  Geoffrey Robinson
  The career of late former Victorian premier Joan Kirner illustrated the story of the Australian Left from the Whitlam era to the present day.
• Lawyer and witness face charges under spy laws, raising questions of openness and accountability (2018-06-29)
  Clinton Fernandes
  As lawyer Bernard Collaery and his client face criminal charges, there are many more questions to be answered in this case.