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The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. The powers, role and composition of the Senate are set out in Chapter I of the federal constitution as well as federal legislation and constitutional convention .
Following are lists of members of the Australian Senate: Members of the Australian Senate, 1901–1903; Members of the Australian Senate, 1904–1906; Members of the Australian Senate, 1907–1910; Members of the Australian Senate, 1910–1913; Members of the Australian Senate, 1913–1914; Members of the Australian Senate, 1914–1917
This section lists members of parliament who have served for a cumulative total of at least 30 years. All these periods of service were spent in one House exclusively. A number of people have served in both the Senate and the House of Representatives , [ 1 ] but none of them to date has had an aggregate length of service to the Parliament ...
Pages in category "Members of the Australian Senate" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 592 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
31 people were members of the House of Representatives before joining the Senate; 22 people were members of the Senate before joining the House of Representatives. The first person to have been a member of both houses was James McColl (Victoria), on 1 January 1907. All the other states and territories are represented in the list, the first ...
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2022 Australian federal election held on 21 May 2022. [1] Terms for newly elected senators representing the Australian states begin on 1 July 2022. Terms for senators in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory began on the day of the election, 21 May 2022. [2]
This is a list of appointments to the Australian Senate, which is the upper house of the Parliament of Australia, filling casual vacancies, from the Senate's creation in 1901 until the present day. There is a second list of invalid elections and appointments to the Senate.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2016 Australian federal election held on 2 July 2016. The election was held as a consequence of a double dissolution in which both houses of parliament were dissolved. Ordinarily, only half of the senators terms end at each election.