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Members of the Australian Senate, 1990–1993

Senate composition at 1 July 1990
Government (32)
  Labor (32) – (7 seat minority)

Opposition (34)
Coalition
  Liberal (28)
  National Party (5)
  Country Liberal (1)

Crossbench (10)
  Democrats (8) [i]
  WA Greens (1)
  Independent (1)
 
Changes in composition

  1. ^ Janet Powell was elected as an Australian Democrats member, but resigned in July 1992 and served out the remainder of her term as an independent.

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 1993.[1] Half of the state senators had been allocated a long term following the double dissolution election in 1987 and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1993; the other half of the state senators were elected at the March 1990 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1996. The territory senators were elected at the March 1990 election and their terms ended at the next federal election, which was March 1993.

The composition of the Senate was affected by the decision in 1987 as to which senators received a long term, with Labor and the Democrats voting to reject the alternate "recount" method that had been unanimously recommended by the Joint Select Committee on Electoral Reform in 1983,[2] and facilitated by the Commonwealth Electoral Act.[3] Thus the Labor government, with only 32 seats, needed 7 additional votes to achieve the majority necessary to pass legislation.[4] Because the Democrats had got 2 additional long vacancies in 1987, in South Australia and New South Wales,[5][6] the Democrats had a total of 8 seats from 1990 and thus continued to hold the balance of power, even after Janet Powell resigned from the Democrats in 1992.

Senator Party State Term ending Years in office
Richard Alston   Liberal Victoria 1996 1986–2004
Brian Archer   Liberal Tasmania 1993 1975–1994
Terry Aulich   Labor Tasmania 1993 1984–1993
Michael Baume   Liberal New South Wales 1993 1984–1996
Peter Baume [a]   Liberal New South Wales 1993 1974–1991
Michael Beahan   Labor Western Australia 1996 1987–1996
Robert Bell   Democrats Tasmania 1996 1990–1996
Bronwyn Bishop   Liberal New South Wales 1996 1987–1994
Florence Bjelke-Petersen   National Queensland 1993 1980–1993
Nick Bolkus   Labor South Australia 1993 1981–2005
Ron Boswell   National Queensland 1996 1983–2014
Vicki Bourne   Democrats New South Wales 1996 1990–2002
David Brownhill   National New South Wales 1996 1984–2000
Bryant Burns   Labor Queensland 1996 1987–1996
John Button [b]   Labor Victoria 1993 1974–1993
Paul Calvert   Liberal Tasmania 1996 1987–2007
Ian Campbell   Liberal Western Australia 1993 1990–2007
Kim Carr [b]   Labor Victoria 1993 1993–present
Christabel Chamarette [c]   WA Greens Western Australia 1996 1992–1996
Grant Chapman   Liberal South Australia 1996 1987–2008
Bruce Childs   Labor New South Wales 1996 1980–1997
John Coates   Labor Tasmania 1993 1980–1996
Bob Collins   Labor Northern Territory 1993, 1996 [d] 1987–1998
Mal Colston   Labor Queensland 1993 1975–1999
Peter Cook   Labor Western Australia 1993 1983–2005
Barney Cooney   Labor Victoria 1996 1984–2002
John Coulter   Democrats South Australia 1996 1987–1995
Winston Crane   Liberal Western Australia 1996 1990–2002
Noel Crichton-Browne   Liberal Western Australia 1996 1980–1996
Rosemary Crowley   Labor South Australia 1996 1983–2002
John Devereux   Labor Tasmania 1996 1987–1996
Peter Durack [e]   Liberal Western Australia 1993 1970–1993
Gareth Evans   Labor Victoria 1993 1977–1996
John Faulkner   Labor New South Wales 1993 1989–2015
Alan Ferguson [f]   Liberal South Australia 1993 1992–2011
Dominic Foreman   Labor South Australia 1993 1980–1997
Patricia Giles   Labor Western Australia 1993 1980–1993
Brian Harradine   Independent Tasmania 1993 1975–2005
John Herron   Liberal Queensland 1996 1990–2002
Robert Hill   Liberal South Australia 1996 1981–2006
Gerry Jones   Labor Queensland 1996 1980–1996
Rod Kemp   Liberal Victoria 1996 1990–2008
Cheryl Kernot   Democrats Queensland 1996 1990–1997
Sue Knowles   Liberal Western Australia 1993 1984–2005
Meg Lees   Democrats South Australia 1993 1990–2005
Austin Lewis   Liberal Victoria 1993 1976–1993
Stephen Loosley   Labor New South Wales 1996 1990–1995
Ian Macdonald   Liberal Queensland 1996 1990–2019
David MacGibbon   Liberal Queensland 1993 1977–1999
Graham Maguire   Labor South Australia 1993 1983–1993
Jim McKiernan   Labor Western Australia 1996 1984–2002
Paul McLean [g]   Democrats New South Wales 1993 1987–1991
Bob McMullan   Labor Australian Capital Territory 1993, 1996 [d] 1988–1996
Jocelyn Newman   Liberal Tasmania 1996 1986–2002
Bill O'Chee   National Queensland 1993 1990–1999
John Olsen [f]   Liberal South Australia 1993 1990–1992
John Panizza   Liberal Western Australia 1996 1987–1997
Warwick Parer   Liberal Queensland 1993 1984–2000
Kay Patterson   Liberal Victoria 1996 1987–2008
Janet Powell   Democrats/Ind [h] Victoria 1993 1986–1993
Robert Ray   Labor Victoria 1996 1981–2008
Margaret Reid   Liberal Australian Capital Territory 1993, 1996 [d] 1981–2003
Margaret Reynolds   Labor Queensland 1993 1983–1999
Graham Richardson   Labor New South Wales 1993 1983–1994
Chris Schacht   Labor South Australia 1996 1987–2002
Nick Sherry   Labor Tasmania 1996 1990–2012
Jim Short   Liberal Victoria 1993 1984–1997
Kerry Sibraa   Labor New South Wales 1993 1975–1978, 1978–1994
Karin Sowada [g]   Democrats New South Wales 1993 1991–1993
Sid Spindler   Democrats Victoria 1996 1990–1996
Grant Tambling   Country Liberal Northern Territory 1993, 1996 [d] 1987–2001
Michael Tate   Labor Tasmania 1993 1977–1993
Baden Teague   Liberal South Australia 1996 1977–1996
John Tierney [a]   Liberal New South Wales 1993 1991–2005
Jo Vallentine [c]   WA Greens Western Australia 1996 1984–1992
Amanda Vanstone   Liberal South Australia 1993 1984–2007
Peter Walsh   Labor Western Australia 1993 1974–1993
Shirley Walters   Liberal Tasmania 1993 1975–1993
John Watson   Liberal Tasmania 1996 1978–2008
Sue West   Labor New South Wales 1996 1987, 1990–2002
Olive Zakharov   Labor Victoria 1993 1983–1995

Notes

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  1. ^ a b New South Wales Liberal Senator Peter Baume resigned on 28 January 1991. John Tierney was appointed as his replacement on the same day.
  2. ^ a b Victorian Labor Senator John Button resigned on 31 March 1993. Kim Carr was appointed as his replacement on 28 April.
  3. ^ a b Western Australian Green Senator Jo Vallentine resigned on 31 January 1992. Christabel Chamarette was appointed as her replacement on 12 March.
  4. ^ a b c d The term of a territory senator ends at the dissolution of the House of Representatives, which was March 1993.
  5. ^ Father of the Senate
  6. ^ a b South Australian Liberal Senator John Olsen resigned on 4 May 1992. Alan Ferguson was appointed as his replacement on 26 May.
  7. ^ a b New South Wales Democrat Senator Paul McLean resigned on 23 August 1991. Karin Sowada was appointed as his replacement on 29 August.
  8. ^ Victorian Senator Janet Powell resigned from the Australian Democrats on 31 July 1992. She served out the remainder of her term as an independent.

References

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  1. ^ "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1990". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  2. ^ Joint Select Committee on Electoral Reform (13 September 1983). "First report – electoral reform" (PDF). Parliament of Australia. pp. 66–7.
  3. ^ Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) s 282 Re-count of Senate votes to determine order of election in other circumstances.
  4. ^ The President of the Senate votes and if the votes are equal, the motion is defeated: Constitution (Cth) s 23 Voting in the Senate.
  5. ^ "Rotation of Senators" (PDF). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Commonwealth of Australia: Senate. 17 September 1987. pp. 194–213.
  6. ^ "Division of the Senate following simultaneous general elections". Odgers' Australian Senate Practice (14th ed.). Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
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