Tim Ayres

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 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.

Expenses data not available for this period.

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• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tim Ayres on the AI rollout’s looming ‘bumps and glitches’ (2025-12-02)
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  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’.
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  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)
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  Politicisation of taxpayer-funded advertising is wasteful and creates an uneven playing field in elections.
• An opt-out system for AI companies to access creative works doesn’t gel with Australia’s copyright laws. Here’s why (2026-09-17)
  Dilan Thampapillai
  What’s at play is investment from big AI companies versus the long-term interests of Australian creatives.
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• View from The Hill: Albanese takes oversight of government’s response to AI under his own wing (2026-07-14)
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  Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is taking direct oversight of the government’s handling of Australia’s AI rollout with the creation of an Office of AI.
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  These priorities are mostly old policy initiatives that have until now been de-prioritised for months or even years.
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  Workers still know things that algorithms don’t. They’re essential to designing AI systems to enhance, not replace, jobs.
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  The timing of the disclosure (and the incident itself) is fortuitous in a political sense, vindicating the government’s recent AI warnings.
• Grattan on Friday: the galahs are chattering about ‘productivity’, but can Labor really get it moving? (2025-06-12)
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  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.
• View from The Hill: Labor’s Andrew Charlton surfs the AI wave (2026-07-22)
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  The government believes it can’t allow “the tech bros to let it rip”, as one source puts it. But it can’t allow the country to fall behind the pack either.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Jim Chalmers on the Bondi terror attack and the mid-year budget update (2025-12-17)
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  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.
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