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 received | Date recorded | Gift item/ benefit service | Received by | Presented by | Occasion | Estimated value in $AUD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01/09/2025 | 29/09/2025 | Qantas Chairman's Lounge Membership - extension of existing membership. | Commissioner | Qantas | Renewal advice of lounge membership | $120 |
| 09/09/2025 | 09/09/2025 | Invitation to attend a PHD mini-course on structural trade modelling -ECON90054 – special reading topics in Economics 2. | APS Official | Prof Reshad Ahsan- Melbourne University | Invite via participation at Monash Empirical Trade Conference | $2,000 |
| 16/09/2025 | 30/09/2025 | Socks, book and 1 apple air tag | Commissioner | We Money | Intersekt Industry Dinner | $120 |
| 25/09/2025 | 02/10/2025 | Book titled “Artificial Intelligence, robots and the law” 2nd edition. | Commissioner | Professor Lyria Bennett Moses, UNSW (book co-author) | Attendance at the data and digital roundtable organised by CEDA. | $129 |
1 October 2025 – 31 December 2025
| Date received | Date recorded | Gift item/ benefit service | Received by | Presented by | Occasion | Estimated value in $AUD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09/07/2025 | 01/12/2025 | Flight, accommodation, and registration for attendance at Economic Society conference as part of role. | Commissioner | Economic Society of Australia | Australian Conference of Economists (ACE) | $1,700 |
| 09/09/2025 | 11/12/2025 | Commissioner | Monash University | 2025 Graduation address | $250 | |
| 14/09/2025 | 28/11/2025 | Complimentary Qantas Club Lounge access x2 | Commissioner | Qantas | $120 | |
| 14/09/2025 | 28/11/2025 | Indigenous Print | Commissioner | Monash University | 2025 Graduation address | $250 |
| 20/10/2025 | 01/12/2025 | Melbourne Entrepreneurial Centre (MEC) Dinner | Commissioner | The University of Melbourne | University dinner and presentation | $100 |
| 19/12/2025 | 19/12/2025 | Christmas hamper | Commissioner | Melbourne Quarter Building Management | End of year gift | $194 |
| Current | 11/12/2025 | Renewal of Qantas Chairman’s Lounge Membership | Commissioner x6 | Qantas | Declaration of lounge membership | N/A |
