Pat Conaghan

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 Pat Conaghan 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: $221,706
• Office Consumables and Services: $4,108
• Printing and Communications: $99,215
• Publications: $127
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $7,070
• COMCAR: $400
• Travel Allowance: $11,087
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $595
• Telecommunications - Usage: $668
• Scheduled Commercial Transport: $5,134
• Fares: $8,710
• Parliamentary Duties: $142
• Domestic Travel: $33,587
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $50,863

• Defence joins search for missing bushwalker – as it happened
• Severe weather warning for northern Victoria – as it happened
• Afternoon Update: Labor and Coalition strike gambling deal; fallout continues from Sydney Swans Melbourne incident; and restaurant of the year
• Albanese hints at deal on gambling and says ‘absolutely false’ that sports betting is country’s major gambling addiction – as it happened
• Albanese trashes Taylor’s Midwinter Ball speech – as it happened
• Garth Hamilton storms out of question time after outburst – as it happened
• Paul Hogan and Norman Gunston are ‘essential features of Australian monoculture’, Hanson says – as it happened
• Husic says Labor pile-on after Aukus criticism ‘not healthy’ – as it happened
• Labor MP challenges Marles over Israeli government support – as it happened
• PM says opposition ‘reduced to a farce’ as government targeted over CGT – as it happened

• Canavan brings back McCormack in Nationals frontbench shake up (2026-03-16)
  Michelle Grattan
  The new Nationals leader promotes a ‘posse of patriots’ to the Coalition front bench.
• Bipartisan deal on gambling includes a review after three years (2026-08-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  After striking an agreement with the opposition, the government agreed to somewhat toughen its original plan on the legislation.
• Discontent with Nationals in regional areas could spell trouble for Coalition at federal election (2019-04-22)
  Chris Aulich
  Water management, declining standard of living and regional Australians feeling neglected have all been cited as reasons for the Nationals being on the nose electorally.
• ‘This is not a barbeque’: a short history of neckties in the Australian parliament and at work (2022-08-05)
  Lorinda Cramer
  When Max Chandler-Mather rose to speak in question time, he was criticised for not wearing a tie. But Australian men have been going tie-less for decades.
• View from the Hill: Liberals and Nationals patch things up and announce a shadow ministry (2025-05-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  As the Coalition re-forms, tensions are still running high in the Nationals.
• Liberal Party reclaims Goldstein – how Tim Wilson turned back the Teal tidal wave (2025-05-12)
  Phoebe Hayman, Amy Nethery
  The Liberal Party has reclaimed a seat lost to the Teals in 2022. Tim Wilson did it by adapting some of the campaign strategies used by the independents.
• Minor parties perform well in federal election and reconfirm the power of preference deals (2019-05-19)
  Chris Salisbury
  Especially in Queensland, right-wing populist parties like One Nation and United Australia Party had a significant impact on how seats played out, and especially taking votes from Labor.
• State of the states: six politics experts take us around Australia in the final week of the campaign (2022-05-16)
  Paul Williams, John Phillimore, Mark Rolfe, Michael Lester, Rob Manwaring, Zareh Ghazarian
  In the first week of the campaign we journeyed around the country with a team of politics experts. Now we retrace our steps to look at what’s happened since.