Thomas French

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 Thomas French 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.

• French hunters go on warpath to stem invasion of wild boars

• Antibiotic use likely fuelled the rise of a ‘superbug’ in NZ – genomics offers a defence against the next threat (2025-08-17)
  Rhys Thomas White, Juliet Elvy, Kristin Dyet, Maria Hepi, Nigel French, Sarah Bakker
  Over-subscription of a topical antibiotic likely led to the emergence of a superbug which is now the leading cause of resistant infections.
• Thomas Piketty, climate change and discounting our future (2014-08-11)
  David Hodgkinson
  French economist Thomas Piketty and his book Capital in the Twenty-First Century are a global publishing phenomenon. But while Piketty’s writing on wealth inequality has been widely debated, far fewer…
• Inequality is growing, but it is also changing as Australia’s super rich evolve (2019-07-14)
  Salvatore Ferraro
  Inherited wealth matters less among Australia’s super rich, fresh ideas matter more.
• We don’t need 19th century inequality to achieve 21st century growth (2014-04-28)
  Thomas Clarke
  The Coalition government is currently rehearsing a well-honed rhetoric on “everyone having to do the heavy lifting” to justify Treasurer Joe Hockey’s slash and burn budget on social services and pension…
• Rethink inheritances. These days they go to the already middle-aged (2019-08-19)
  Owain Emslie, Danielle Wood
  Not only do we not tax inheritances, we actually subsidise them, making the already well off even better off.
• When the rich get richer they pay little tax on the gains (2016-01-06)
  David Ingles
  There is an alternative tax approach that would make for a more just society.
• Piketty challenges us to consider if we need to rein in wealth inequality (2016-10-25)
  Frank Stilwell
  Some people evidently think wealth inequality is a good thing, but there’s plenty of evidence to show the problems it causes.
• Artificial Intelligence should benefit society, not create threats (2015-01-15)
  Toby Walsh
  Some of the biggest players in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have joined together calling for any research to focus on the benefits we can reap from AI “while avoiding potential pitfalls”. Research into…
• Beyond GDP – how Australia could help redefine well-being (2015-10-12)
  Tani Shaw
  The widely accepted concept of economic prosperity - GDP - increasingly fails to measure human well-being.
• This budget - like others before - will favour the rent-seekers (2015-04-26)
  Gigi Foster, Paul Frijters
  Our policy-makers know perfectly well how to reduce inequality and tackle political favouritism. The question is, will this federal budget even try?
• Why the federal budget should get a ‘fail’ from the G20 (2014-05-19)
  Fabrizio Carmignani
  Everybody would agree that growth, defined as a steady increase in gross domestic product, is a necessary condition for economic development. There is simply no country that has reduced poverty and improved…
• If we are reaching neoliberal capitalism’s end days, what comes next? (2017-02-05)
  Allan Patience
  The crisis confronting neoliberal capitalism suggests that its internal contradictions are now undermining its very foundations. What can we expect from a post-neoliberal world?
• Budget 2014: there’s more to science than medical research (2014-05-14)
  Jonathan Borwein (Jon)
  It’s hard to ignore the irony. The 2014 federal budget will “better target innovation and research funding to areas of national and strategic priority” but funding cuts of more than A$111 million to CSIRO…
• Audio Q&A: Professor Joseph Stiglitz on inequality, rent-seeking and Australia’s ‘brand name’ (2014-07-09)
  Nobel Laureate and renowned economist Professor Joseph Stiglitz has been packing out lecture theatres in Australia in the past week. During his whirlwind tour, he’s talked about why inequality matters…
• Weekly Dose: metformin, the diabetes drug developed from French lilac (2016-10-05)
  Merlin Thomas
  Metformin has been used to treat diabetes since the late 1950s. It is now on the World Health Organisation’s List of Essential Medicines needed for a basic health care system.
• Friday essay: Jon Faine on why our social cohesion should not be taken for granted (2025-10-30)
  Jon Faine
  Australia has been, and continues to be, remarkably resilient. But the fragile machinery of democracy needs some long overdue maintenance.
• The IMF is showing some hypocrisy on inequality (2017-02-13)
  Christopher Sheil, Frank Stilwell
  The IMF has been expressing public concern about inequality since 2010, but this has not translated into concrete action within the IMF’s own policies and programs.
• Inequality: what can be done? Quite a bit, it turns out (2015-09-01)
  Genevieve Knight
  With his Piketty-lite book, Anthony Atkinson has delivered an action plan for addressing inequality. But will policymakers listen?
• Le Tour de France is losing traction in its homeland (2014-07-16)
  Eric Reed
  July in France means tourists, sunflowers, Bastille Day and the running of the national bicycle race. The Tour is one of the most recognisable symbols of France in the global imagination. But it is an…
• Universities and government need to rethink their relationship with each other before it’s too late (2020-06-14)
  Hannah Forsyth
  While governments have tried to curb universities’ autonomy, the institutions have often spent their money unwisely. And now, we face a crisis.
• Student protests won’t be the last, and they certainly weren’t the first (2014-05-22)
  Evan Smith
  Yesterday saw a national day of action by university students protesting against federal budget proposals to increase student fees and interest on student debt. The protests reportedly led to Prime Minister…
• It’s time to future-proof Australia’s copyright laws for the 21st century (2016-05-04)
  Matthew Rimmer
  The Productivity Commission’s report into copyright reform will be good for the public, good for innovation and good for Australia.
• In Knife, his memoir of surviving attack, Salman Rushdie confronts a world where liberal principles like free speech are old-fashioned (2024-04-19)
  Paul Giles
  Rushdie feared until he dealt with the attempt on his life, he ‘wouldn’t be able to write anything else’. The book is a clearly cathartic story of courage and resilience, but it’s curiously one-eyed.
• Why New Zealand has no great 19th-century novel (2014-02-11)
  Lydia Wevers
  Historically, geographically, culturally – there are many points of comparison between Australia and its neighbour to the east, New Zealand. But there are notable differences. This week, The Conversation…
• ‘A state of aesthetic pleasure and satisfaction’: Pinchgut Opera’s Médée demands to be heard (2022-12-05)
  Daniela Kaleva
  First performed in 1693, Pinchgut Opera sets this baroque opera in the 20th century – with remarkable relevance to today.
• Bringing the free market down to earth is a moral question (2014-10-01)
  Jean-Paul Gagnon, Mark Chou
  Five years on, the response of governments around the world to the global financial crisis (GFC) continues to draw criticism. Leaders failed to fulfil the promises they made during the GFC’s darkest days…
• How do we understand life on Earth? A prize-winning biography charts the tension between two types of science ‘genius’ (2025-07-16)
  John Long
  A biography of scientists Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis LeClerc explores the complex, disparate lives of two brilliant men who shaped the study of natural history.
• The US election has put the spotlight on Haiti. Its history reveals extensive exploitation by the US – and France (2024-09-19)
  Philip Johnson
  Unfounded claims by Donald Trump and JD Vance about Haitian immigrants ignore the role of the US in their plight. Many of Haiti’s problems can be traced to debt forced upon it by the US and France.
• Comedians and kings: is Donald Trump reviving the ancient crime of lèse-majesté? (2025-11-18)
  Garritt C. Van Dyk
  Donald Trump’s claim that some satire could be ‘illegal’ harks back to an age when criticising a monarch could see the offender drawn and quartered.
• Chloé: how a 19th-century French nude ended up in a Melbourne pub – and became an icon for Australian soldiers (2022-04-24)
  Katrina Kell
  It has been tradition for soldiers to have a drink with Chloé at the Young and Jackson Hotel since the first world war.