Phillip Thompson

We estimate Phillip Thompson received a parliamentary salary of: $299,090

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: $155,370
• Office Consumables and Services: $20,364
• Printing and Communications: $26,398
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $2,032
• COMCAR: $3,005
• Travel Allowance: $13,181
• Telecommunications - Usage: $314
• Fares: $34,962
• Parliamentary Duties: $826
• Domestic Travel: $13,446
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $40,844

• 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
• Woolworths to sell Australia Day holiday merchandise in reversal of 2024 policy

• 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.