Ted O'Brien

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We estimate Ted O'Brien 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: $255,244
• Travel Allowance: $16,900
• Office Consumables and Services: $7,319
• Printing and Communications: $16,636
• Publications: $452
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $7,340
• COMCAR: $12,239
• Telecommunications - Usage: $272
• Telecommunications - Residential - Official: $386
• Fares: $20,863
• Domestic Travel: $79,648
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $93,187

• Angus Taylor will challenge for the Liberal leadership – but who will be the deputy?
• O’Brien accepts invite to Chalmers roundtable – as it happened
• ‘Bordering on incredible’: Coalition under fire for planning to scrap Labor climate policies and offering none of its own
• Afternoon Update Election 2025: barbs traded over energy plans; China invite rebuffed; and a tall tale
• Pro-nuclear MP says Labor ‘weaponising’ CSIRO report showing renewables are cheapest
• Coalition opposes Australia tripling renewable energy, backs nuclear power pledge at Cop28
• Coalition MP’s ‘grassroots’ nuclear power survey linked to consulting firm
• LNP believes Queensland marginal seats 'back in play under Morrison
• Clive Palmer claims to have proof of Queensland government corruption
• Greens to appeal decision not to recount WA votes for Senate

• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Ted O'Brien on reaching for the nuclear button (2024-07-03)
  Michelle Grattan
  Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Ted O'Brien, who has spearheaded the Coalition's Nuclear Energy plans joins us today to talk about the plan and Australia's energy market.
• Shadow treasurer Ted O'Brien accepts invitation to government’s economic roundtable (2025-06-24)
  Michelle Grattan
  The federal opposition has accepted an invitation from Treasurer Jim Chalmers for shadow treasurer Ted O'Brien to attend the August economic roundtable.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Shadow Treasurer Ted O'Brien and industry chief Andrew McKellar’s tax and red tape wishlists (2025-08-19)
  Michelle Grattan
  Both men say the government has a ‘spending problem’ and are urging the federal government to think beyond raising taxes – especially for business.
• Grattan on Friday: Can Jim Chalmers reap a healthy crop with the help of his big worm farm? (2025-08-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  One observer describes next week’s economic roundtable this way: the treasurer “has opened a can of worms – and everybody has got a worm”.
• The Coalition prepares to soften Australia’s 2030 climate target, while reaffirming its commitment to the Paris Agreement (2025-04-10)
  Tony Wood
  The Coalition reveals plans to review Australia’s 2030 emissions reduction target if they win government at the next federal election.
• Grattan on Friday: The Coalition’s likely embrace of nuclear energy is high-risk politics (2023-08-10)
  Michelle Grattan
  Peter Dutton has been open since the election about nuclear energy being on the Coalition’s agenda - but that has allowed the government, especially Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen, to attack the idea
• Sussan Ley makes history, but faces unprecedented levels of difficulty (2025-05-13)
  Mark Kenny
  The first female leader of the federal Liberal Party has vowed to drag the Coalition back to the centre. But Sussan Ley faces big challenges on multiple fronts.
• View from The Hill: Ley says Liberals must ‘meet the people where they are’, but how can a divided party do that? (2025-05-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  With both the Liberal and Nationals leadership contests over work begins now to rebuild. But what form the parties will now take remains an open question.
• Grattan on Friday: could the Liberals make a fight of industrial relations without courting disaster? (2025-12-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  It’s near-universally agreed that opposition policy development under Peter Dutton was too thin and too late. Are the Liberals now being rushed prematurely?
• Liberals elect first woman leader, with Ley defeating Taylor 29-25 (2025-05-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Sussan Ley has emerged victorious in the battle for the liberal leadership, while Ted O'Brien, architect of the controversial nuclear power policy, becomes deputy.
• Commercial flights will be your best way out of Middle East, Wong tells stranded Australians (2026-03-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government has deployed six “crisis response” teams to the Middle East to help deal with the overload caused by the huge number of Australians stranded.
• 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.
• View from The Hill: Coalition split puts Victorian and NSW Nationals Senate seats at high risk (2025-05-21)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Coalition split threatens to unseat two National senators at the next election.
• View from The Hill: New poll brings dreadful news for Ley, another boost for One Nation (2026-02-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  As the polls slump continues for the Liberals, Angus Taylor is semi-openly rounding up the numbers to challenge Sussan Ley’s leadership.
• Flood of frontbench resignations as Liberals prepare for Friday leadership showdown (2026-02-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  A bevy of Liberal frontbenchers supporting Angus Taylor’s leadership challenge resigned their positions on Thursday, ahead of Friday’s 9am party vote.
• Jim Chalmers unveils major retreat on controversial superannuation changes (2025-10-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Jim Chalmers has watered down from Labor’s changes to superannuation, and fully dumped the plan to tax unrealised capital gains
• Opposition starts on challenge of crafting (yet another) energy policy (2025-06-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Sussan Ley at her first address to the National Press Club announced the plans to craft a new energy policy despite the deep divides within her party.
• Peter Dutton’s reshuffle: David Coleman the surprise choice as shadow foreign minister (2025-01-25)
  Michelle Grattan
  Peter Dutton has chosen David Coleman for the key shadow foreign affairs portfolio, in a reshuffle that also seeks to boost the opposition’s credentials with women.
• Sussan Ley fills frontbench holes temporarily, giving a brief window for Nationals to rethink Coalition split (2026-01-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  With a final reshuffle of the shadow ministry put off for another week, Ley has left the door for political reunification firmly open.
• View from The Hill: fractured Liberals drown net zero and themselves in a torrent of verbiage (2025-11-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  On Monday alone, the Liberals wallowed in the crisis over energy policy, its parliamentarians indulged in more than 35 media appearances.
• Australia’s robust voting system deserves praise, not criticism (2013-09-18)
  Zareh Ghazarian
  Tony Abbott was today sworn in as Australia’s 28th prime minister. The election results, however, are yet to be formally declared, with some controversy surrounding the counting of votes in the electorate…
• View from The Hill: Liberals desperate for a path out of purgatory (2026-02-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  After a horror poll last night it is becoming increasingly likely that Angus Taylor will challenge Sussan Ley for the Liberal leadership
• View from The Hill: Conservative Liberals hold ‘power walk’ before delivering coup de grâce to net zero (2025-11-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Liberals are set to dump net zero with a strong majority of the party room speaking out against the policy.
• View from The Hill: Peter Dutton sets up a debate about Australia’s ambition on emission reduction targets (2024-06-09)
  Michelle Grattan
  Opposition energy spokesman Ted O'Brien and the Coalition the 43% by 2030 is unachievable and see to be saying they would just ignore the target.
• Peter Dutton’s nuclear energy policy will do nothing to ease Australians’ hip-pocket pain, now or in the future (2024-06-21)
  Tony Wood
  The Coalition’s nuclear plan is an unwelcome proposal which will slow the energy transition and increase our dependence on gas – a surefire way to drive up energy bills.
• Labor’s dominance continues in federal Newspoll, while Victorian Newspoll gives Coalition narrow lead (2025-11-23)
  Adrian Beaumont
  Federal Labor continues to poll strongly as the Coalition wrestles with climate policy. Meanwhile, Victorian Labor’s polling continues to be dire.
• Bipartisan support for US attack on Iran, but Greens say it is ‘abhorrent’ (2026-03-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Albanese government has backed the American strike on Iran, while confirming Australia was not given prior warning.
• View from The Hill: Niki Savva outlines Andrew Hastie’s ambition ‘to restore the Menzian big tent’ (2025-11-24)
  Michelle Grattan
  Those around Sussan Ley seem confident her fragile leadership would survive into next year. But some in the party look to Andrew Hastie as the parties future.
• With its nuclear energy policy, Peter Dutton seems to have forgotten the Liberal Party’s core beliefs (2024-07-02)
  Judith Brett
  Putting aside concerns about feasibility and cost, it’s difficult to square the policy with the basic principles on which the Liberal Party was founded.
• How the Palmer United Party came out barking (2013-09-09)
  Scott Prasser
  A funny thing happened at the polls in Queensland over the weekend. To great surprise, the two right-of-centre minor parties - Katter’s Australian Party (KAP) and the recently-established Palmer United…