Phillip Thompson

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 Phillip Thompson 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: $195,362
• Printing and Communications: $54,745
• Office Consumables and Services: $14,186
• Publications: $1,342
• Travel Allowance: $13,269
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $7,254
• COMCAR: $959
• Telecommunications - Usage: $324
• Official Duties: $1,541
• Parliamentary Duties: $248
• Fares: $15,432
• Domestic Travel: $47,985
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $38,077

• PM urged to act on communal grave revelations as NSW commits to ‘do better’ with urgent review
• Billionaire Gina Rinehart says ‘I don’t understand’ arrest of Ben Roberts-Smith over alleged war crimes
• Australians buy record number of new EVs – as it happened
• Labor approves 4.41% increase for health insurance premiums – as it happened
• Thousands gather at Melbourne Herzog protest – as it happened
• Ley had ‘a really strong point to make’ on Joy Division T-shirt, Liberal MP says – as it happened
• Victoria police don’t know if Dezi Freeman is still alive – as it happened
• Abbott says dumped frontbencher ‘will be a big loss’ - as it happened
• Ben Roberts-Smith’s final appeal bid rejected by high court – as it happened
• ‘Complex’ blaze at Sydney recycling factory – as it happened

• Sussan Ley announces (another) frontbench reshuffle (2025-10-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Sussan Ley has reshuffled her frontbench team again after Liberal Andrew Haste resigned as Shadow Minister of Home Affairs over immigration concerns .
• View from The Hill: Angus Taylor appoints Tim Wilson as part of a new-look Liberal economic team (2026-02-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has appointed Tim Wilson to go head-to-head as shadow treasurer against the Treasurer, Jim Chalmers.
• ‘Fit for service’: Why the ADF needs to move with society to retain the public trust (2021-05-05)
  Damian Powell
  The Brereton report is providing an opportunity for the ADF to rethink its core values. It ignores changing social expectations at its peril.
• Terra nullius interruptus: Captain James Cook and absent presence in First Nations art (2020-04-28)
  Bruce Buchan, Eddie Synot
  For too long, Cook was a promise recollected in pigment, bronze and stone. Contemporary First Nations artists are challenging this imagery.
• NGV’s Colony is a bold attempt to confront Australia’s colonial past, but divisions remain (2018-03-15)
  Anita Pisch
  Colony at the NGV pairs colonial art with Indigenous responses, in an effort to create dialogue about Australia’s history.
• Asylum seekers and Australia: the evidence (2012-07-18)
  Sharon Pickering
  Welcome to The Conversation’s research repository on asylum seeker issues. When public debate has ground to a halt over something as serious as lives lost at sea, it’s time to look to what the evidence…
• The timelines and tough decisions police will be weighing up in the Dezi Freeman hunt (2025-09-18)
  Vincent Hurley
  If police eventually have to downgrade the search for Dezi Freeman, how will the victims’ families react and what message will it send to the community?
• How clay helped shape colonial Sydney (2019-08-19)
  Nicholas Pitt
  Though the Indigenous inhabitants were using white clay long before them, Sydney-made pottery helped colonists maintain different aspects of ‘civilised’ behaviour.
• 2011, the year that was: Business and Economy (2011-12-28)
  Don’t look away: the year isn’t over yet. One of 2011’s biggest economic stories – the sovereign debt crisis sweeping over Europe – is still far from settled. As the misfortunes of the PIIGS - Portugal…
• Rediscovering the art of Tracker Nat: ‘the Namatjira of carving’ (2022-07-03)
  Darren Jorgensen, Joseph Yugi Williams
  During the 1950s, Nat made hundreds of carvings. Today, many of these are likely to be lying unidentified in people’s homes and in museum basements.
• Starstruck charts a nation’s transformation via a century of film stills (2018-10-07)
  Christine Judith Nicholls
  A marvellous exhibition of Australian film stills, now showing in Adelaide, offers a form of visual ethnography.
• Strip searches in prison are traumatising breaches of human rights. So, why are governments still allowing them? (2022-02-18)
  Andreea Lachsz, Sarah Schwartz
  Strip-searching prisoners has been found to breach human rights. Will the Victorian government implement changes to strip-searching policies in places of detention?
• Whose Australian stories? Cultural diversity at the ABC (2014-07-23)
  Helen Vatsikopoulos
  Australia’s national broadcaster this week launched a rebranding campaign for its flagship television channel, ABC1, that features Australians from diverse cultural backgrounds. But if you look at the…
• A hybrid Australia, where identity has a multi-layered crunch (2014-12-11)
  Julianne Schultz
  Australia today is very different to the place I grew up in: our culture has changed and is changing, but public discussion is still framed by old tropes. We need a new shorthand to capture the reality…
• An open letter from 1,200 Australian academics on the Djab Wurrung trees (2020-11-04)
  Peta Malins, Crystal McKinnon, Kim Kruger, Paola Balla
  After the Directions Tree was cut down last week, Australian academics - both Indigenous and non-Indigenous - have come together in ‘sorrow and anger’.