Tom French

We estimate Tom 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.

• Latest quarter total: $142,356
• Printing and Communications: $42,194
• Office Consumables and Services: $12,195
• Publications: $586
• Telecommunications - Usage: $529
• Travel Allowance: $5,474
• Parliamentary Duties: $84
• Fares: $12,207
• COMCAR: $1,263
• Domestic Travel: $18,564
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $49,261

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• Independents will not help form government – but they will be vital in holding it to account (2025-05-05)
  Joshua Black
  Yes, Labor has won a huge majority. But it will still need to work constructively with the crossbench in both the House and the Senate.
• You talking to me? House of Cards and breaking the fourth wall (2014-03-12)
  Sandra Sciberras
  Season two of US political thriller House of Cards hit Netflix as a complete 13-part series in February and, depending on which way you chose to watch it in Australia, you’ll have either binged shamelessly…
• East Timor, war, coffee and Australia’s debt of honour (2017-04-23)
  Heather Merle Benbow
  In wartime, food and drink may be a weapon or embodiment of the enemy, but also ‘a token of hope, a soothing relief’. In East Timor, coffee has played a vital role.
• Melbourne Festival: the Flemish Wave still ebbs and flows in 32 rue Vandenbranden (2015-10-13)
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  The founders of Belgian dance company Peeping Tom draw their performance language from the influential Flemish Wave movement of the late 1980s and 90s. Their 32 rue Vandenbranden is part of Melbourne Festival.
• From Monet to Rodin, John Russell: Australia’s French Impressionist maps artistic connections (2018-07-23)
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  John Russell, who was destined to become an engineer, instead became an artist in fin de siècle France – and a friend of Van Gogh, Monet and Rodin.
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  Alain Delon was more than just a Gallic heart-throb. He redefined European cool and brought grace and steel to all his roles.
• Anatomy of a wave: what makes the Olympic surf break at Teahupo'o unique – and so challenging (2024-07-28)
  Tom Shand
  There are some great surfers vying for gold in Tahiti, but arguably the star of the show is the famous Teahupo'o wave itself. Here’s what makes it special, and why surfers respect its power.
• Oscars 2022: 5 experts on the wins, the emotions, the music – and the bold frocks on the runway (2022-03-28)
  Ari Mattes, Claire Whitley, Gregory Camp, Harriette Richards, Tom Clark
  The Power of the Dog may have lead the pack when it came to nominations, but the big winner of the night was the understated CODA.
• 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…
• Explainer: the largest language spoken exclusively in Australia – Kriol (2016-04-26)
  Greg Dickson
  It’s spoken by up to 20,000 people, but most Australians have never heard of Kriol. The creole of North Australia has evolved into a distinct language – but is it helping or killing Indigenous dialects?
• Learning grammar is just as important as it always was but the way we teach it has changed (2023-02-06)
  John Munro
  Grammar is the backbone of any language and kids need to understand it to communicate effectively.
• What’s the point of universities? It’s the ideas, stupid (2011-03-24)
  Patrick McCaughey
  Foundation Essay – Universities are at permanent risk of getting a bad rap.. They are too remote, too elitist, too unworldly, too expensive (especially in the US). They are ‘irrelevant’ to the needs and…
• 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…
• Guide to the classics: The War of the Worlds (2020-07-06)
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• Designers on collaboration: Josh Santospirito (2014-07-27)
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  In the third of my series of interviews with designers and illustrators on collaboration, Hobart-based comic maker and publishing entrepreneur Josh Santospirito discusses self-publishing as a way to grow…
• Remembering Tom Paine (2013-01-29)
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  Readers might like to sample the following birthday toast in honour of the English political writer Thomas Paine (1737 – 1809). It was prepared for a dinner hosted by Graham Allen MP, Chair of the Political…
• ‘New Zealanders are inventive by necessity’: how the master clown Philippe Gaulier shaped NZ theatre (2026-02-11)
  Hannah Joyce Banks
  Master clown and French theatre guru Philippe Gaulier has died at 82. His influence will live on in generations of artists from New Zealand.
• 2017: The year ahead in cinema (2017-01-22)
  Ari Mattes
  From the Blade Runner reboot to Kenneth Branagh as Hercule Poirot to a film about the reincarnated spirit of a dog … here is our list of the movies to look forward to - or not.
• What Australian soldiers ate for Christmas in WWI (2018-12-19)
  Heather Merle Benbow, Deborah Tout-Smith
  For Australians serving overseas in WWI, Christmas was particularly difficult. Menus reveal how soldiers tried to maintain the traditions of home.
• Oscars 2021: 5 experts on the wins, the words, the wearable art and a big year for women (2021-04-26)
  Julia Erhart, Ari Mattes, Dan Golding, Harriette Richards, Tom Clark
  This year, with shrinking audiences and pandemic restrictions, there was a bitter irony in the fact women won more Oscars, across new and highly visible categories, than ever before.
• She-Oak and sunlight: ‘the best feelgood show I have seen since COVID’ (2021-04-06)
  Sasha Grishin
  This exhibition will become the definitive show of Australian Impressionism - and it features talented women artists alongside iconic males.
• Friday essay: Jane Austen’s Emma at 200 (2016-01-21)
  Camilla Nelson
  At the time of publication, the longevity of Jane Austen’s fifth novel Emma was far from guaranteed. And yet, 200 years later, it now seems immortal. This is the story of its remarkable life.
• Radicalisation and the lone wolf: what we do and don’t know (2014-12-17)
  Anne Aly
  The events of the Sydney siege this week evolved amid a torrent of speculation and theorising about the motivations and intent of the hostage-taker Man Haron Monis. Some media reporting during the Sydney…
• Kay Scarpetta led the trend for serial killer hunters. I love crime heroines – but she leaves me cold (2026-03-24)
  Sue Turnbull
  The blonde-haired, blue-eyed author Patricia Cornwell is the spitting image of her character Kay Scarpetta – and just as frosty.
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  Ben McCann
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• Trump’s time is up, but his Twitter legacy lives on in the global spread of QAnon conspiracy theories (2021-01-19)
  Verica Rupar
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  Judy Ingham
  Rising unemployment, Reserve Bank’s proposed changes and Turnbull’s view on the ‘dumb defence debate’: an edited selection of your feedback on our stories.
• New shows tell our isolation stories on screen – making the most of what’s at hand (2020-05-22)
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  Social distancing forced most film and television production into shutdown. But a new batch of screen content shows the virtues of bricolage culture - tinkering with what’s available.