Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2023
We, the members of the Remuneration Tribunal, make the following determination.
Dated	28 August 2023

Signed	Signed	Signed	
John Conde AO	Heather Zampatti	Stephen Conry AM	
President	Member	Member	

  

Contents
1	Name	1
2	Commencement	1
3	Authority	1
4	Schedules	1
Schedule 1—Amendments	2
Part 1—Amendments relating to travel allowance rates	2
Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Determination (No.2) 2023	2
Part 2—Other amendments	7
Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Determination (No.2) 2023	7

1  Name
		This instrument is the Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2023.
2  Commencement
	(1)	Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information	
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	
Provisions	Commencement	Date/Details	
1.  Sections 1 to 4 and anything in this instrument not elsewhere covered by this table	The day after this instrument is registered.	29 August 2023	
2.  Schedule 1, Part 1	Immediately after the commencement of the Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Determination (No.2) 2023.	27 August 2023	
3.  Schedule 1, Part 2	1 September 2023.	1 September 2023	
Note:	This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
	(2)	Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
3  Authority
		This instrument is made under sections 45 and 46 of the Parliamentary Business Resources Act 2017.
4  Schedules
		Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendments
Part 1—Amendments relating to travel allowance rates
Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Determination (No.2) 2023
1  Schedule B
Repeal the Schedule, substitute:

SCHEDULE B – TRAVEL ALLOWANCE RATES
Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	
Locality	Members mentioned in clause 5.2	Other members	
Capital cities	
Canberra	$310	$310	
Adelaide	$461	$444	
Brisbane	$450	$433	
Darwin	$497	$480	
Hobart	$439	$422	
Melbourne	$469	$418	
Perth	$469	$432	
Sydney	$469	$451	
Unspecified locations	
Locations not specified in this Table	$399	$350	
New South Wales	
Albury	$399	$369	
Armidale 	$399	$353	
Bathurst	$399	$369	
Bega	$399	$369	
Bourke	$399	$371	
Broken Hill	$399	$348	
Cobar	$399	$331	
Coffs Harbour	$399	$369	
Cooma	$399	$369	
Cowra	$399	$369	
Dubbo	$399	$357	
Gosford	$399	$348	
Goulburn	$399	$369	
Grafton	$399	$369	
Griffith	$399	$346	
Gunnedah	$399	$369	
Inverell	$399	$369	
Lismore 	$399	$350	
Narrabri	$399	$369	
Maitland	$399	$374	
Mudgee	$399	$375	
Muswellbrook	$399	$344	
Newcastle	$399	$382	
Nowra 	$399	$355	
Orange	$406	$389	
Port Macquarie	$399	$377	
Tamworth	$399	$369	
Taree	$399	$369	
Tumut	$399	$369	
Wagga Wagga	$399	$364	
Wollongong	$399	$368	
Northern Territory	
Alice Springs	$410	$393	
Jabiru	$420	$403	
Katherine	$432	$415	
Nhulunbuy 	$434	$417	
Tennant Creek	$399	$369	
Yulara	$774	$757	
Queensland	
Ayr	$399	$369	
Bundaberg	$399	$371	
Cairns	$399	$362	
Charters Towers	$399	$369	
Chinchilla	$399	$369	
Dalby	$405	$388	
Emerald	$399	$366	
Gladstone	$399	$358	
Gold Coast	$413	$396	
Hervey Bay	$399	$362	
Horn Island	$549	$532	
Innisfail	$399	$369	
Kingaroy	$399	$369	
Mackay	$399	$353	
Maryborough	$399	$369	
Mount Isa	$399	$372	
Nambour	$399	$350	
Rockhampton	$399	$361	
Roma	$399	$369	
Thursday Island	$527	$510	
Toowoomba	$399	$348	
Townsville	$399	$361	
Weipa	$442	$425	
South Australia	
Bordertown	$399	$351	
Ceduna	$399	$369	
Kadina	$399	$369	
Mount Gambier	$399	$351	
Naracoorte	$399	$369	
Port Augusta	$399	$369	
Port Lincoln	$399	$357	
Port Pirie	$399	$369	
Renmark	$399	$369	
Whyalla	$399	$354	
Wilpena Pound	$427	$410	
Tasmania	
Burnie	$399	$365	
Devonport	$399	$348	
Launceston	$399	$361	
Queenstown	$399	$369	
Victoria	
Ararat	$399	$346	
Bairnsdale	$399	$369	
Ballarat	$399	$374	
Benalla	$399	$355	
Bendigo	$399	$351	
Bright	$399	$367	
Castlemaine	$399	$349	
Colac	$399	$369	
Echuca	$399	$369	
Geelong	$399	$362	
Hamilton	$399	$369	
Horsham	$399	$352	
Mildura	$399	$369	
Portland	$399	$369	
Sale	$399	$369	
Seymour	$399	$369	
Shepparton	$399	$354	
Swan Hill	$399	$368	
Wangaratta	$399	$373	
Warrnambool	$399	$369	
Wodonga	$399	$369	
Wonthaggi	$399	$375	
Western Australia	
Albany	$399	$380	
Broome	$424	$407	
Bunbury	$399	$365	
Carnarvon	$399	$357	
Dampier	$399	$362	
Derby	$399	$379	
Esperance	$399	$367	
Exmouth	$418	$401	
Geraldton	$399	$352	
Halls Creek	$399	$357	
Kalgoorlie	$399	$368	
Karratha	$427	$410	
Kununurra	$408	$391	
Newman	$475	$458	
Northam	$418	$401	
Port Hedland	$399	$362	
External Territories	
Christmas Island	$422	$405	
Cocos (Keeling) Islands	$535	$518	
Norfolk Island	$407	$390	

Part 2—Other amendments
Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Determination (No.2) 2023
2  Clause 2.1
Omit “$217,060”, substitute “$225,750”.
3  Clause 2.2
Omit “$45,320”, substitute “$47,140”.
4  Clause 2.3 (note)
Omit “$162,800 per annum, being 75% of the base salary of $217,060”, substitute “$169,320 per annum, being 75% of the base salary of $225,750”.