Trish Cook

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We estimate Trish Cook 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: $208,011
• Printing and Communications: $101,606
• Office Consumables and Services: $8,851
• Publications: $236
• Travel Allowance: $9,982
• Private-Plated Vehicle: $6,073
• COMCAR: $2,102
• Fares: $19,922
• Domestic Travel: $27,172
• Office Facilities - Not stated: $32,066

• Monique Ryan maintains slim lead in Kooyong – as it happened
• Analysts split on Bandt’s hopes of holding seat – as it happened
• Goldstein on knife edge as 16 seats still in doubt; Murray Watt says Labor not given credit for ‘ambitious’ agenda – as it happened
• Gender politics: will the 2025 election send more female MPs to Australia’s parliament?
• Coalition pledges $10m for western Queensland weather radar – as it happened

• Friday essay: the politics of Aboriginal kitsch (2018-07-19)
  Liz Conor
  What are we to make of ‘Aboriginalia’: bric-a-brac, tiles, ornaments and artworks - once hugely popular - depicting caricatures of Indigenous people? What if they are collected now in a knowing, ironic way?
• Lee Lai’s Cannon is the first graphic novel to win the Stella Prize (2026-05-13)
  Jen Webb
  This is Lee Lai’s second book to be shortlisted for the Stella Prize, and her first win.
• Helen Oxenbury: Illustrating the Land of Childhood – exhibition showcases the adventure and anxiety of our formative years (2025-03-13)
  Alice Mercier
  The world depicted through Oxenbury’s illustrations is one of family gatherings, mealtimes and activities, but also of oceans, forests, night skies and caves.
• With commercial galleries an endangered species, are art fairs a necessary evil? (2019-05-14)
  Sasha Grishin
  Embarrassed directors of well-established commercial art galleries will quietly confess that often they scarcely get more than a dozen visitors a day. Can art fairs help fill the void?
• Drinking fountains in every town won’t fix all our water issues – but it’s a healthy start (2023-05-23)
  John Charles Skinner, Kylie Gwynne, Tom Calma
  We estimate more than 200 communities across Australia do not have community drinking water fountains. That must change.
• Deep cultural shifts required: open letter from 500 legal women calls for reform of way judges are appointed and disciplined (2020-07-06)
  Gabrielle Appleby
  In an open letter to Attorney-General Christian Porter, more than 500 women working in the law from across Australia have sought changes to the way judges are disciplined and appointed.
• Michelle Grattan’s blog on ALP Leadership spill (2013-06-26)
  Michelle Grattan
  1:10pm: Labor’s leadership showdown is now rapidly approaching, with a petition circulating among caucus members asking for a special meeting. The Rudd supporters need one third of the caucus to get a…
• Friday essay: ‘but we already had a treaty’ – Tom Griffiths on a little known 1889 peace accord (2022-05-19)
  Tom Griffiths
  The Debney Peace, negotiated over a 5-day ceremony on Mithaka Country, is nationally significant to 21st century Australia.
• What are motor skills? Evidence-based ways to support children’s fine and gross motor development (2026-04-09)
  Sophie M Phillips, Dan Jones, Trish Tucker
  Habitually practising different motor skills can help ensure young children have the key competencies and abilities to move and use their bodies in ways that prepare them to lead healthy lives.