Richard Wilson

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 Richard Wilson 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.

Expenses data not available for this period.

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• Smoke and mirrors: why claims that NZ’s smokefree policy could fuel an illicit tobacco trade don’t stack up (2022-10-18)
  Nick Wilson, Richard Edwards
  Even if the new smokefree legislation did cause some temporary extra illegal trade in tobacco, the best response would still be better law enforcement and border control.
• How can Australia have too many doctors, but still not meet patient needs? (2017-06-04)
  Richard Murray, Andrew Wilson
  Australia has more doctors per population than most comparable countries, yet many living in rural and remote areas don’t receive the care they need. Changing the way we train doctors will fix this.
• Friday essay: public ‘pash ons’ and angry dads – personal politics started with consciousness-raising feminists. Now, everyone’s doing it (2024-07-18)
  Leigh Boucher, Barbara Baird, Michelle Arrow, Robert Reynolds
  Personal activism has achieved major legislative change, such as no-fault divorce and the decriminalisation of homosexuality and abortion. But it’s also used by groups who want to reverse that change.
• Grief, loss, and a glimmer of hope: Josephine Wilson wins the 2017 Miles Franklin prize for Extinctions (2017-09-07)
  Jen Webb
  Josephine Wilson has won the 2017 Miles Franklin award for her novel Extinctions. Judging panel chair Richard Neville stated Wilson’s novel, “explores ageing, adoption, grief and remorse, empathy and self-centredness…
• Australian Gothic: from Hanging Rock to Nick Cave and Kylie, this genre explores our dark side (2019-07-03)
  Emma Doolan
  Gothic texts are not all bloodsucking vampires and howling werewolves. An Australian Gothic tradition took root alongside colonisation, influencing writers from Marcus Clarke to Alexis Wright.
• US scheme used by Australian farmers reveals the dangers of trading soil carbon to tackle climate change (2021-06-24)
  Aaron Simmons, Annette Cowie, Brian Wilson, Mark Farrell, Matthew Tom Harrison, Peter Grace, Richard Eckard, Vanessa Wong, Warwick Badgery
  If problems in such schemes are not addressed, the credibility of soil carbon trading will be undermined. Ultimately the climate - and the planet - will be the loser.
• Here’s how to fix Australia’s approach to soil carbon credits so they really count towards our climate goals (2023-09-29)
  Aaron Simmons, Annette Cowie, Beverley Henry, Brian Wilson, David Pannell, David Rowlings, Elaine Mitchell, Matthew Tom Harrison, Peter Grace, Raphael Viscarra Rossel, Richard Eckard, Warwick Badgery
  A group of agricultural and soil scientists has serious concerns about the way credits are awarded for soil carbon sequestration in Australia.
• Angus Taylor defeats Sussan Ley by hefty margin of 34-17 as Liberal leader (2026-02-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Angus Taylor has defeated Sussan Ley for Liberal leader by a hefty margin of 34-17, giving him strong authority.
• Gareth Evans: ‘Bob learned early self-deprecation is for dummies’ (2014-04-14)
  Gareth Evans
  Bob Carr took on the job of Australian foreign minister believing, as he doesn’t hesitate to tell us in his Diary of a Foreign Minister, that it was highly unlikely that he would be there for very long…
• Trump is not like other presidents – but can he beat the ‘second term curse’ that haunts the White House? (2025-07-02)
  Garritt C. Van Dyk
  According to myth, the ghost of George Washington cursed anyone serving more than four years. But a nonconsecutive second term is different – as is Donald Trump.
• Making auctions work: the winning ideas behind this year’s Nobel Prize in economics (2020-10-12)
  John Hawkins
  For their work on auctions and ‘the winner’s curse’, Stanford neigbhours Paul Milgrom and Robert Wilson have won the 2020 Nobel Prize for economics.
• ‘Primal and indifferent’: a puma prowls Tasmania’s forests in Robbie Arnott’s wild eco-Western (2024-10-07)
  Caitlin Macdonald
  The Tasmanian landscape, magnificent and mythical in Arnott’s prose, is haunted by the legacies of colonisation.
• 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.
• View from The Hill: Budget week punctuated by distractions (2022-03-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  For Morrison, budget night itself had been soured by an extraordinarily strong, personal attack on him by one of his backbenchers.
• Why stamping out corruption in FIFA won’t be easy (2014-11-17)
  John Wilson
  The limited release of FIFA’s investigation into corruption allegations surrounding the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cup was supposed to allay the ever-increasing perception that corruption…
• How a default union membership could help reduce income inequality (2019-01-22)
  Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall, Margaret Wilson, Nisha Novell
  Research suggests union membership by default could help reduce income inequality and its associated social ills.
• US citizens can now publish models of 3D printed firearms online. What does it mean for us? (2018-07-18)
  Richard Matthews
  A US gun rights advocate has won the right to publish instructions on the web for 3D printing firearms. In an era where anyone can access a 3D printer, is this the end of gun control?
• How does franchising work? (2024-12-19)
  Andrew Terry
  You’ve almost definitely shopped at a franchise. But how does the model, ‘cloning’ a business to be run by independent owner-operators, actually work?
• Election FactCheck: Does the government spend $3 billion each year on the offshore asylum seeker detention system? (2016-06-30)
  Fabrizio Carmignani
  Was Greens leader Richard Di Natale right to say the government spends $3 billion each year on the “offshore detention centre regime”?
• Origins of altruism: why Hamilton still rules 50 years on (2014-07-03)
  Ben Oldroyd, Madeleine Beekman, Rob Brooks
  Fifty years ago this month, evolutionary biologist William Donald Hamilton published a solution to one of biology’s most enduring mysteries: why does altruism exist? Altruistic behaviours are those where…
• HIV rates stable but chlamydia cases skyrocket (2011-09-26)
  Sunanda Creagh
  Australia’s rates of HIV infection have remained stable for the last five years but gonorrhoea cases shot up 25% last year, while chlamydia rates have reached epidemic levels among young people, a new…
• 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.
• 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.
• Why do we love the great outdoors? New research shows part of the answer is in our genes (2022-02-03)
  Richard Fuller, Brenda Lin, Chia-chen Chang, Danielle Shanahan, Kevin J. Gaston, L. Roman Carrasco, Rachel Oh
  Our feelings about nature depend on lots of factors, but a new study shows our genes are one of the most important.
• Teaching reptiles to avoid cane toads earns top honour in PM’s science prizes (2016-10-19)
  Michael Hopkin
  University of Sydney conservation scientist Rick Shine has won a top science honour, for work that uses evolutionary theory to try and keep cane toads from killing Australia’s native wildlife.
• In defence of bad taste: the art of Pat Larter and Lola Ryan (2014-08-13)
  Gemma Weston
  On my first day as curator of the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art, Pat Larter and Lola Ryan’s artworks were shown to me in order to demonstrate the idiosyncrasies of the once-private collection. But…
• Demagogues in history: Why Trump emphasizes emotion over facts (2016-01-28)
  Richard Ashby Wilson
  Insults are tossed about in an election year but the word “demagogue” has a particular bite. But what is a demagogue and how do the 2016 candidates compare with demagogues in history?
• Empire of stillness: the six essential aspects of Japanese Noh (2014-06-19)
  Jeff Janisheski
  Theatre of dreams, theatre of play opened this week at the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW), a new exhibit giving a fascinating glimpse into one of Japan’s great theatrical traditions nō (Noh) through…
• Protest art: rallying cry or elegy for the black-throated finch? (2019-07-21)
  Felicity Fenner
  Australian artists are protesting the Adani mine’s potential impact on the black-throated finch. The project is gaining traction online, but in this case, emotive art might not be enough.
• The Flanagan effect: Tasmanian literature in the limelight (2015-04-06)
  Ralph Crane
  Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Man Booker Prize has put Tasmanian writing in the spotlight – and the announcement of new state literary prizes has helped too. So what is distinctive about Tasmanian literature?