Sarah Witty

We estimate Sarah Witty 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: $144,076
• Printing and Communications: $17,624
• Office Consumables and Services: $2,866
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $4,183
• COMCAR: $2,174
• Telecommunications - Usage: $365
• Travel Allowance: $5,474
• Fares: $5,354
• Parliamentary Duties: $132
• Domestic Travel: $24,278
• Parliamentary Delegations: $10,780
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $70,848

• PM pledges to ‘do everything we can to protect Australia’ amid Iran fuel crisis – as it happened
• DJ more, channel Zohran and get a sleep doctor: Adam Bandt on life after politics and saving the planet
• No positive STI results to date as testing of children in case of accused childcare paedophile continues – as it happened
• Labor MP Ali France thanks late son for his belief in her in first speech to parliament after unseating Peter Dutton
• New MPs deliver first speeches – as it happened
• The Greens are about to choose a new leader. Here’s how it works – and who could be Adam Bandt’s successor
• Corrections and clarifications
• Canavan will challenge Littleproud for Nationals leadership – as it happened
• Sarah Witty v Adam Bandt: how an unlikely Labor champion took down a Greens giant
• Adam Bandt concedes defeat in seat of Melbourne as Greens leadership talks loom

• Late counting continues in several seats, with Goldstein and Melbourne among those too close to call (2025-05-05)
  Adrian Beaumont
  Some contests are so close it may be some time before a result is confirmed.
• Mama Alto pays homage to Sarah Vaughan at the Melbourne Fringe (2014-09-28)
  Elizabeth Dori Tunstall
  In their 2014 Melbourne Fringe Festival performance Mama Alto and her musical director Tiffani Walton pay tribute to Sarah Vaughan, one of the great ladies of American song. Mama Alto charmed her audience…
• Sex, comedy and vulnerability: Latecomers on SBS is an important shift in disability representation (2022-12-12)
  Anna Hickey-Moody
  Latecomers looks at the role of sex and sexuality in the lives of disabled people.
• Spotify continues to change music. What’s next – will AI musicians replace music made by humans? (2025-05-20)
  John Hawkins
  Spotify officially claims it was started because its founders ‘love music and piracy was killing it’. But a new book argues this is rewriting history.
• Nerve-wracking twists, remarkable stardom and jet-black comedy: the 5 best films of the 2025 French Film Festival (2025-03-25)
  Ben McCann
  These five captivating films offer a snapshot of the very best of contemporary French cinema
• The Killing’s Sarah Lund: an anti-hero for our COVID moment (2021-08-25)
  Julian Meyrick
  In cult Danish TV series The Killing, detective Sarah Lund displays courage in the face of politicians sadly lacking it.
• An imaginative unfolding of a life, a new play asks: would Sidney Nolan have become the artist he became if not for Sunday Reed? (2023-01-23)
  Kate Hunter
  Fragmented scenes shift backwards and forwards through time to build an absorbing picture of the circle of artists who gathered around the Reeds.
• Bean’s Anzac Book shaped how Australians think about Gallipoli (2015-04-09)
  Sarah Midford
  Charles Bean made editorial decisions to eliminate the bloody realities of war in favour of a specially crafted and idealised construction of the Anzacs and the Gallipoli campaign.
• Best Books of 2024: our experts share their standout reads (2024-12-03)
  Jo Case
  We’ve invited writers, from fields as diverse as wildlife ecology, politics and literature, to nominate their best books of 2024. And this year, the Books & Ideas team share their own picks, too.
• A reader’s guide to the US election: an expert recommends the best books, journals, podcasts and commentators (2024-07-24)
  Brendon O'Connor
  In worrying and consequential times, it is necessary to stay informed about the upcoming US election. Many excellent analyses are available.
• ‘A literary event’: Sylvia Plath memorabilia can fetch as much as $1m. A new book reveals a treasure trove of material (2025-02-10)
  Sarah-Jane (SJ) Burton
  Sylvia Plath’s writing was witty, political, emotional and sharp. A substantial new collection includes more than 50 previously unpublished stories.
• Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld is moving, witty and achingly real (2025-02-26)
  Sarah Trott
  Despite the absurd or humorous surface nature of the stories, there is a profundity to the collection that lies just below the surface.
• Friday essay: the revolutionary vision of Jane Austen (2017-02-23)
  Gillian Dooley
  This year is the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death and her celebrity continues to grow. But relegating Austen’s work to plots about ‘whether the heroine gets her man’ belittles her achievement.
• Sarah Lucas’s Venice Biennale recognition is long overdue (2014-03-31)
  Alison Rowley
  The only surprising thing about the news that Sarah Lucas has been chosen to represent Britain at the Venice Biennale in 2015 is that it has taken so long to happen. Immediate media response to the British…
• Who was Jane Austen’s best leading man? These experts think they know (2025-08-13)
  James Vigus, Christine Hawkins, Emrys D. Jones, Jane E Wright, Michael Meeuwis, Penny Bradshaw, Sarah Annes Brown
  The winner is down to you!
• Five historical romances to escape into during a pandemic (2020-10-28)
  Diana Wallace
  During the second world war, people found solace in the formulaic narratives of historical romances and during the pandemic they could once again provide readers comfort.
• Five of the best crime dramas to be banged up with under lockdown – from a screenwriter (2020-04-03)
  Chris Dolan
  Go on – you know you love a police procedural. Here are some of the best on offer.
• The six best Shakespeare adaptations that aren’t in English (2026-04-29)
  Sarah Olive
  The future of Shakespeare may well lie beyond the English language.
• Down Cemetery Road: Emma Thompson and Ruth Wilson delight in this light conspiracy thriller (2025-11-12)
  Andrew Dix
  This adaptation dials down the political intrigue and ramps up the action.
• ‘Graphic novels are novels’: why the Booker Prize judges were right to choose one for its longlist (2018-07-26)
  Claire Nally
  Graphic novels have a long history and are becoming an ever-more popular way of bringing profound and complex stories to life.
• Ali Smith’s Glyph is an exhilarating and excoriating follow-up to Gliff (2026-01-28)
  Sarah Annes Brown
  The novel offers the reader an uncanny version of our world, haunted by ghostly voices from the past.
• Sparkling and inspiring: Charles Kennedy was a rare politician (2015-06-02)
  Emma Sanderson-Nash
  The former Liberal Democrat leader was an inspiration to his party and the outside world.