Tony Burke

We estimate Tony Burke 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: $502,349
• Printing and Communications: $94,162
• Office Consumables and Services: $5,630
• Travel Allowance: $21,094
• Private Vehicle Allowance: $2,523
• Telecommunications - Usage: $425
• Fares: $9,528
• Parliamentary Duties: $28
• Official Duties: $240
• Domestic Travel: $227,613
• International Travel: $1,180
• Ministerial Visits: $2,037
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $137,887

• Liberal frontbencher Jonno Duniam to quit politics, says leadership spill ‘started to really wear on me’
• Burke brushes off One Nation threat to his seat – as it happened
• Sara fears her father will be deported from Australia to Nauru – a place of ‘final and lifelong punishment’
• OECD says Australia should increase EV and renewable energy take up amid fuel crisis – as it happened
• Ben Roberts-Smith won’t see full brief of war crime allegations for months – as it happened
• Tony Abbott says Liberals in ‘existential crisis’ as he is elected party president – as it happened
• Treasury secretary says ‘no clear evidence’ for CGT reform criticisms – as it happened
• US firm fined for Australian immigration security failures. How much? Border force refuses to say
• Jillian Segal hired former Scott Morrison adviser on $200,000 contract without public tender process
• Labor MP tells Coalition to ‘stop running scare campaigns’ over CGT changes – as it happened

• PODCAST: Michelle Grattan talks to Mathias Cormann and Tony Burke (2014-05-14)
  Michelle Grattan
  Our budget coverage continues with interviews firstly with Finance minister Mathias Cormann and then Shadow Finance Minister Tony Burke. Listen to both interviews in this podcast.
• Politics podcast: Tony Burke on Labor’s fiscal challenge (2016-02-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  In the first Politics Podcast for 2016, Michelle Grattan and Tony Burke discuss the challenging gap between government revenue and spending.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: Tony Burke advocates on wages and arts (2022-06-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  Michelle Grattan speaks with Tony Burke the minister for employment and workplace relations and minister for the arts, as well as the leader of the House of Representatives.
• New home affairs minister Tony Burke heads to Indonesia to tackle terrorism and people smuggling (2024-07-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  The minister will also co-chair a meeting on counter terrorism and transnational security.
• Tony Burke’s double ministry of arts and industrial relations could be just what the arts sector needs (2022-05-26)
  Kim Goodwin, Caitlin Vincent
  After holding the shadow portfolios, it is expected Tony Burke will be sworn in as minister for the arts and minister for industrial relations.
• Government shuts down move to refer Christian Porter’s secret funds to privileges inquiry (2021-10-20)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Government has blocked an inquiry that could determine whether Christian Porter breached parliamentary privilege by refusing reveal the names of those who donated to his legal costs
• Australia’s environment minister could soon be above the law (2014-02-26)
  Gregory McIntyre
  Earlier this month, a Senate inquiry paved the way for the Parliament to give Environment Minister Greg Hunt legal immunity against future legal challenges to his decisions on mining projects. If it passes…
• View from The Hill: If it’s serious about CFMEU, Labor should decline its money (2024-07-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  By Monday morning the CFMEU national secretary Zach Smith had put the Victorian branch into administration.
• View from The Hill: Albanese appoints Tony Burke to neutralise immigration issues and sends Clare O'Neil to grapple with housing crisis (2024-07-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  The prime minister has made changes that will strengthen his team ahead if the next election, though not as many as he might have, given factional constraints.
• Scott Morrison to face parliamentary censure for undermining political trust (2022-11-28)
  Michelle Grattan
  The opposition will vote against the censure, but will support the legislation to implement the Bell recommendations to ensure ministerial appointments are always made public.
• Scientists to be called in as super trawler blocked for two years (2012-09-11)
  Super trawler the Abel Tasman (formerly the Margiris) will be blocked from fishing in Australian waters for up to two years after the Federal Government announced plans to amend legislation to address…
• Gig economy workers set for new protections in Albanese government’s legislation introduced next week (2023-08-30)
  Michelle Grattan
  A suite of protections for gig workers will be contained in legislation to be introduced into parliament next week, and will also include measures on rights for casual workers and stopping wage theft
• May budget to boost cultural and historical institutions with $535m four-year injection (2023-04-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government also promises that beyond the four years, the institutions will get indexed funding
• Bishop helicopter trip referred to Australian Federal Police (2015-07-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  The opposition has asked the Australian Federal Police to investigate whether Speaker Bronwyn Bishop broke the law in claiming $5227 for a helicopter trip between Melbourne and Geelong.
• Controversial ParentsNext program to be scrapped next year (2023-05-04)
  Michelle Grattan
  Minister for Women, Katy Gallagher, said women around the country had been telling the government the program “is punitive, counterproductive and causes harm”
• Albanese promises National Aboriginal Art Gallery in Alice Springs and pivots towards the modern and mainstream in new cultural policy (2023-01-29)
  Michelle Grattan
  The policy, called Revive and funded by $286 million over four years, establishes Creative Australia which will be the government’s principle arts investment and advisory body
• Government to legislate for multi-employer bargaining, strengthening push for wage increases (2022-09-01)
  Michelle Grattan
  The government will bring in early legislation for multi-employer bargaining and implement a range of other changes to the industrial relations system.
• Government makes concessions on multi-employer bargaining bill (2022-11-06)
  Michelle Grattan
  Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke said on Sunday there would be a change in the proposed way voting would work for these agreements.
• Albanese government to make it easier for casuals to become permanent employees (2023-07-23)
  Michelle Grattan
  Under the change, promised in Labor’s election campaign, there will be a new definition of when an employee can be classified as “casual”.
• Government to introduce new powers to fight money laundering, terrorism financing, crypto crime (2025-10-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  Tony Burke on Thursday will outline new powers to combat money laundering, terrorism financing and crime risks associated with cryptocurrency and Crypto ATMs.
• Politics with Michelle Grattan: ACCI Head Andrew McKellar on industrial relations and boosting Australia’s productivity (2023-07-27)
  Michelle Grattan
  In this podcast, our guest is Andrew McKellar, CEO of the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He joins us to give a business take on the economy and relations with the Albanese Government
• Fair Work Commission moves to appoint administrators into construction division of CFMEU (2024-07-17)
  Michelle Grattan
  The Fair Work Commission’s general manager, Murray Furlong, is moving for the appointment of administrators into the construction division of the CFMEU, following a string of allegations.
• NBN Co says it was protecting staff morale in caretaker breach (2016-06-15)
  Michelle Grattan
  NBN Co has strongly defended itself after Martin Parkinson found that its chairman, Ziggy Switkowski, breached the pre-election caretaker conventions.
• Albanese government sets unchanged 185,000 intake under permanent migration program (2025-09-02)
  Michelle Grattan
  Immigration Minister Tony Burke announced the figure amid a fresh divisive debate about immigration, intensified by the weekend marches calling for lower numbers.
• Labor costings: ALP deficit $16.5 billion higher over the budget period (2016-06-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  Labor has unveiled its costings, showing it would have a deficit of around $16 billion higher across the forward estimates than that shown in the Pre-election Economic and Fiscal Outlook.
• Parents are waiting more than 30 years for an Australian visa. The new home affairs minister needs to act (2024-08-12)
  Peter Mares
  Burke has only been in the role for a couple of weeks, but a backlog of more than 150,000 parent visa applications presents some tough choices.
• This was supposed to be a ‘wellbeing budget’ – so why does it feel like the arts have been overlooked? (2022-10-26)
  Jo Caust
  Arts Minister Tony Burke says the government is waiting for its new cultural policy. But artists are struggling now.
• Under-counting, a gendered industry, and precarious work: the challenges facing Creative Australia in supporting visual artists (2023-08-31)
  Grace McQuilten, Chloë Powell, Jenny Lye, Kate MacNeill, Marnie Badham
  Any policy interventions from Creative Australia to support visual and craft artists’ incomes will need to take a sector-wide approach.
• The case of Michaelia Cash and her leaking adviser illustrates a failure of ministerial responsibility (2017-10-26)
  Yee-Fui Ng
  Australia’s minimal legal and political regulation of ministerial advisers has led to an accountability deficit.
• All eyes on Labor as alleged corruption envelops CFMEU. Here are the government’s options (2024-07-15)
  New allegations of corruption and misconduct in parts of the CFMEU have raised the question of whether unions are being properly regulated.