Pat Conroy

We estimate Pat Conroy 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: $349,523
• Printing and Communications: $47,343
• Telephonic Services: $1,132
• Office Consumables and Services: $8,896
• Publications: $138
• Travel Allowance: $12,710
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $6,672
• Parking: $92
• COMCAR: $12,120
• Telecommunications - Usage: $325
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $663
• Fares: $18,308
• Parliamentary Duties: $20
• Domestic Travel: $159,872
• International Travel: $790
• Ministerial Visits: $39,054
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $41,388

• Hanson claims credit for immigration plans; PM arrives in Brunei – as it happened
• Angus Taylor accused of ‘desperate dog-whistle’ immigration speech as Pauline Hanson takes credit
• Top US Senate Democrats again try for war powers resolution – as it happened
• Labor ‘not considering’ joining US blockade of strait of Hormuz – as it happened
• Defence chief says Australian ships ‘ready, capable’ as Albanese calls on US and Iran to reopen strait of Hormuz
• One Nation wins fourth seat in SA – as it happened
• Morning Mail: Trump renews threats to Iran, big cyclone about to make third landfall, trans Olympic ban
• ACCC calls emergency meeting with fuel suppliers – as it happened
• Labor MPs quietly alarmed by Albanese government’s response to US-Israel strikes on Iran
• Joyce says he’s not aware of crime reports after Hanson comments – as it happened

• Bishop helicopter trip referred to Australian Federal Police (2015-07-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  The opposition has asked the Australian Federal Police to investigate whether Speaker Bronwyn Bishop broke the law in claiming $5227 for a helicopter trip between Melbourne and Geelong.
• Washington’s war demands – Australia right to refuse committing to a hypothetical conflict with China over Taiwan (2025-07-14)
  John Blaxland
  The Albanese government is facing a push by the United States for a ‘broad ranging and open ended’ commitment to defend Taiwan against any Chinese aggression.
• View from The Hill: Labor conference gives Albanese a firm ‘yes’ on AUKUS (2023-08-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  After last-minute deliberations between Labor powerbrokers and unions, the AUKUS pact was endorsed by the ALP at its national conference this Friday
• Labor’s reset on climate and jobs is a political mirage (2019-11-07)
  Peter Christoff
  On the issue of a retreat from coal, Albanese is trying to walk both sides of the highway by wandering down the middle.
• Australia donates 49 Abrams tanks to Ukraine (2024-10-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Albanese government is giving 49 M1A1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, despite earlier this year apparently playing down the prospect of the donation.
• Australia’s new development aid policy provides clear vision and strategic sense (2023-08-08)
  Melissa Conley Tyler
  The federal government’s long awaited new aid and development policy offers a clear and galvanising vision of how Australia should deal with the complex issue.
• Steadying foreign aid budget signals the government takes development seriously (2022-10-26)
  Melissa Conley Tyler
  The latest budget shows we’re starting to cement the view that an adequate development budget is non-negotiable if Australia wants to have influence in the region.
• Will Donald Trump renegotiate the AUKUS treaty or walk away? That’s the $368 billion question (2024-11-26)
  David Andrews
  Australia, the US and UK are currently debating a treaty to formalise AUKUS. But there’s nothing stopping Trump from making further demands or scrapping the deal altogether.
• Trump may push Albanese on defence spending, but Australia has leverage it can use, too (2025-06-13)
  Thomas Corben
  Trump may push Albanese on defence spending, but America needs its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific perhaps more than anywhere else in the world.
• Australia should offer our ‘Pacific family’ access rather than simply reacting to China (2023-07-31)
  Joanne Wallis
  Instead of just offering defence funding, we need to look at how hard we make it for Pacific Islanders to come here if we want a really meaningful relationship.
• It’s the 10-year anniversary of our climate policy abyss. But don’t blame the Greens (2020-02-19)
  Rebecca Pearse
  Labor continues to be hung up on a decade-old Greens’ decision to oppose an emissions trading scheme in 2009. But responsibility for Australia’s climate policy void lies elsewhere.
• National conference subdued about Labor revival as Shorten gets his way (2015-07-26)
  Dennis Altman
  The Labor Party’s future depends on its ability to steer its vision for a more progressive Australia through the twin obstacles of public suspicion and the still-powerful party oligarchies.
• Talk isn’t enough: Pacific nations say Australia must end new fossil fuel projects (2024-08-29)
  Liam Moore
  When Australian leaders go to the main Pacific nations meeting, there’s a fossil fuel elephant in the room.
• Albanese just laid out a radical new vision for Australia in the region: clean energy exporter and green manufacturer (2022-07-13)
  John Mathews, Elizabeth Thurbon, Hao Tan, Sung-Young Kim
  This week, Austalia began a climate pivot on its relationship with the region. Fossil fuels are out and exporting green energy and green manufacturing techniques are in.
• Labor’s new generation will have some familiar old features (2013-07-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  If Labor goes into opposition, or even if it stays in government, next term is going to be seen as a time for renewal. A swag of former frontbenchers are quitting their seats, and some of those electorates…
• World leaders are flocking to Papua New Guinea. Here’s why (2023-05-25)
  Ian Kemish
  This week has shown Australia’s partners have come to understand they cannot leave it to Australia alone to carry the democratic standard in the Pacific.
• View from The Hill: Albanese appoints Tony Burke to neutralise immigration issues and sends Clare O'Neil to grapple with housing crisis (2024-07-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  The prime minister has made changes that will strengthen his team ahead if the next election, though not as many as he might have, given factional constraints.
• Defence spending: our research shows how Australia can stop buying weapons for the wars of the past (2025-03-27)
  Pi-Shen Seet, Anton Klarin, Janice Jones, Mike Johnstone, Violetta Wilk
  Australia is spending more on defence – but without money going to AI, cybersecurity and space technology our military risks being stuck in the past.
• Wong wins foreign affairs in Shorten’s new frontbench line-up (2016-07-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  Bill Shorten has made some very sound decisions in his far-reaching frontbench overhaul, but the exercise contained some shockers as well. Moving deputy leader Tanya Plibersek from shadow foreign minister…