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Gifts and Benefits Register

The Productivity Commission’s approach on its employees receiving gifts and benefits is that gifts and benefits should generally not be accepted.

Australian Public Service Commission Guidance on Gifts and Benefits requires that from 18 October 2019 agency heads maintain and publish a register of all gifts and benefits they accept valued at over $100 (excluding GST). This requirement was extended to all Productivity Commission staff and Commissioners from 1 July 2020.

This register covers the period up to 31 March 2023.

The Productivity Commission Chair, Michael Brennan, has received the following gifts or benefits from 18 October 2019.

Date received Date recorded Gift item/
benefit service		 Received by Presented byOccasion Estimated value in $A
11/12/2019 30/01/2020 Complimentary Qantas Chairman's Club Lounge Membership   Qantas   n/a
26/03/2021 30/03/2021 A bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon Merlot - Pierro 2015   From Retirement Income Policy Division, Treasury Speaking at a planning day $40

Staff and Commissioners of the Productivity Commission have received the following gifts or benefits from 1 July 2020.

Date received Date recorded Gift item/
benefit service		 Received by Presented byOccasion Estimated value in $A
12/12/2020 17/12/2020  Three bottles of wine Commissioner BATYR Mental Health Speaking at their conference on Mental Health $60
01/3/2021 04/03/2021 International Women's Day Lunch Commissioner Winston Churchill Trust Volunteer to the Trust $109
11/05/2021 11/05/2021 A piece of original metal artwork that reflects the fractal façade of the 2MQ building. APS Official Lendlease   n/a
1/03/2021 26/05/2021 Complimentary Qantas Club Lounge Membership Commissioner Qantas   n/a
26/05/2021 28/05/2021 Complimentary Qantas Club Lounge Membership APS Official Qantas   n/a
14/05/2021 08/06/2021 Minerals Council Parliamentary Dinner Commissioner Minerals Council Parliamentary   n/a
24/05/2021 08/06/2021 Reconciliation Week Breakfast Commissioner Indigenous Business Australia   n/a
02/12/2021 07/12/2021 Christmas Lunch APS Official x2 Melbourne Quarter Building Management Christmas Networking Lunch with Melbourne Quarter Building Management and other tenants $120 per person
16/12/2021 16/12/2021 Two Christmas Hampers APS Official Melbourne Quarter Building Management   $200
11/2/2022 14/2/2022 Gift bag APS Official Local Government New South Wales (LGNSW) LGNSW Water Management Conference $50
7/2/2022 1/03/2022 Gift Hamper

APS Official

 Australian Accounting Standards Board   $85
10/3/2022 10/03/2022 Bottle of Wine APS Official x2 Economics Student Society of Australia (ESSA) Presented at the ESSA Writers’ Workshop $80
8/4/2022 18/4/2022 Book Commissioner Monash Speaking at Monash on Supply Chains $30
01/08/2022 02/08/2022 Organic Pepper and Scarf Commissioner Cambodia Delegation CCF - on behalf of the ACCC Presentation to Cambodia's National Commission for Consumer Protection $100
28/06/2022 13/09/2022 Complimentary Qantas Club Lounge Membership Commissioner Qantas   n/a
26/08/2022 13/09/2022 Gift Hamper APS Official Asana   $30
22/03/2023 27/03/2023 1 bottle of Penfolds Max’s Shiraz Cabernet APS Official Economics Student Society of Australia Guest Speaker at Careers information night $33
22/03/2023 28/03/2023 1 bottle of Penfolds Max’s Shiraz Cabernet APS Official Economics Student Society of Australia Guest Speaker at Careers information night $33
22/03/2023 28/03/2023 Bottle of wine – Bin 28 Penfolds Shiraz 2019 APS Official Economics Student Society of Australia Guest Speaker at Careers information night $40