Remuneration Tribunal (Members of Parliament) Amendment Determination (No. 1) 2023 (Cth)

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Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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”.