Staff other than the Chair 2025-26

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.

1 July – 30 September 2025

Date receivedDate recordedGift item/
benefit service
Received byPresented byOccasionEstimated value in  $AUD 
01/09/202529/09/2025Qantas Chairman's Lounge Membership - extension of existing membership.CommissionerQantasRenewal advice of lounge membershipN/A
09/09/202509/09/2025Invitation to attend a PHD mini-course on structural trade modelling -ECON90054 – special reading topics in Economics 2.APS OfficialProf Reshad Ahsan- Melbourne University Invite via participation at Monash Empirical Trade Conference   $2,000.00
16/09/202530/09/2025Socks, book and 1 apple air tagCommissionerWe MoneyIntersekt Industry Dinner$120.00
25/09/202502/10/2025Book titled “Artificial Intelligence, robots and the law” 2nd edition.CommissionerProfessor Lyria Bennett Moses, UNSW (book co-author)Attendance at the data and digital roundtable organised by CEDA. $129.00