Tim Ayres

We estimate Tim Ayres received a parliamentary salary of: $376,850

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: $378,155
• Travel Allowance: $10,194
• Printing and Communications: $485
• Office Consumables and Services: $5,838
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $4,582
• COMCAR: $5,860
• Telecommunications - Usage: $268
• Fares: $20,256
• Parliamentary Duties: $50
• Domestic Travel: $170,535
• International Travel: $630
• Ministerial Visits: $745
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $158,711

• PM to join summit on reopening strait of Hormuz – as it happened
• PM pledges to ‘do everything we can to protect Australia’ amid Iran fuel crisis – as it happened
• Queensland government scraps emissions target for Brisbane Olympics – as it happened
• BBC and NWA: the day ABC staff went on strike – and left Aunty looking ‘a bit different’
• Crossbench MPs pressure Labor over gas export tax – as it happened
• Central bank increases cash rate amid global energy shock – as it happened
• Antisemitism royal commission to hold first public hearing next week – as it happened
• SA and Victoria brace for weekend of dangerous fire conditions – as it happened
• Protesters outside Sydney’s town hall chant phrase that NSW premier wants to ban – as it happened
• Former ANZ boss sues bank over cancelled bonuses – as it happened

• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tim Ayres on the AI rollout’s looming ‘bumps and glitches’ (2025-12-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  The industry minister denied Australia’s adopting a ‘light-touch’ approach on AI – and says he’s working to make sure data centres are ‘not a drain on resources’.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers wants roundtable to ‘crack open’ the challenge of slow housing approvals (2025-08-13)
  Michelle Grattan
  Housing is on the agenda at next week’s productivity roundtable, with the Treasurer wanting better regulation and faster approvals to build more homes.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: an ‘impatient’ Jim Chalmers on taking political risks in Labor’s second term (2025-06-18)
  Michelle Grattan
  From new ways to fast-track cheaper homes and renewable energy to bigger tax reforms, Treasurer Jim Chalmers tells the podcast his door is open for fresh ideas.
• Albanese government announces gas reservation plan to address supply and price (2025-12-22)
  Michelle Grattan
  Under the scheme, exporters will have to reserve between 15% and 25% of gas production for the local market.
• View from The Hill: Albanese’s wedding guestlist a mudmap to his inner power sanctum (2025-12-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  The prime minister’s quiet wedding gave an insight into who is in his inner circle.
• The Morrison government spent a record amount on taxpayer-funded advertising, new data reveal (2022-12-20)
  Kate Griffiths, Anika Stobart
  Politicisation of taxpayer-funded advertising is wasteful and creates an uneven playing field in elections.
• From GPS to weather forecasts: the hidden ways Australia relies on foreign satellites (2025-05-13)
  Cassandra Steer
  Australia relies on satellites it doesn’t own – which creates a risky situation.
• Factional chiefs triumph – again (2013-12-08)
  Michelle Grattan
  Members of the ALP national executive will vote tomorrow to preselect candidates for Victorian legislative council electorates. Executive members from as far away as Western Australia and Queensland will…
• Companies are betting on AI to help lift productivity. Workers need to be part of the process (2025-06-18)
  Llewellyn Spink, Nicholas Davis
  Workers still know things that algorithms don’t. They’re essential to designing AI systems to enhance, not replace, jobs.
• View from The Hill: Albanese shifts Tanya Plibersek from environment, in favour of ‘can-do’ Murray Watt (2025-05-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  The prime minister’s new cabinet dumps a couple, promotes others and leaves some holding political short straws.
• Grattan on Friday: the galahs are chattering about ‘productivity’, but can Labor really get it moving? (2025-06-12)
  Michelle Grattan
  Paul Keating famously used to say the resident galah in any pet shop was talking about micro-economic policy. These days it’ll be chattering about productivity.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the Bondi terror attack and the mid-year budget update (2025-12-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  The treasurer says the government needs to do more on several fronts: from fighting antisemitism after Sunday’s deadly attack, to cracking down on illegal tobacco.
• Hockey organizations need to address the psychological impacts of team trauma, not just the physical ones (2023-11-08)
  Craig Greenham
  Hockey culture’s tendency to prefer attributes like mental toughness over emotional vulnerability can damage athletes when they’re confronted with traumatic events. This needs to change.