Members of the Australian Senate, 1962–1965
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This is a list of members of the Australian Senate
Australian Senate
The Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives. Senators are popularly elected under a system of proportional representation. Senators are elected for a term that is usually six years; after a double dissolution, however,...

from 1962 to 1965. Half of its members were elected at the 22 November 1958 election
Australian federal election, 1958
Federal elections were held in Australia on 22 November 1958. All 122 seats in the House of Representatives, and 32 of the 60 seats in the Senate were up for election...

 and had terms starting on 1 July 1959 and finishing on 30 June 1965; the other half were elected at the 9 December 1961 election
Australian federal election, 1961
Federal elections were held in Australia on 9 December 1961. All 122 seats in the House of Representatives, and 31 of the 60 seats in the Senate were up for election...

 and had terms starting on 1 July 1962 and finishing on 30 June 1968.
Senator Party State Years in Office
Stan Amour  ALP
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. It has been the governing party of the Commonwealth of Australia since the 2007 federal election. Julia Gillard is the party's federal parliamentary leader and Prime Minister of Australia...

 
New South Wales
New South Wales
New South Wales is a state of :Australia, located in the east of the country. It is bordered by Queensland, Victoria and South Australia to the north, south and west respectively. To the east, the state is bordered by the Tasman Sea, which forms part of the Pacific Ocean. New South Wales...

 
1938–1965
Hon Ken Anderson  Liberal
Liberal Party of Australia
The Liberal Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Founded a year after the 1943 federal election to replace the United Australia Party, the centre-right Liberal Party typically competes with the centre-left Australian Labor Party for political office...

 
New South Wales 1953–1975
James Arnold
James Arnold (Australian politician)
James Jarvist Arnold was an Australian politician. Born in Wallaroo, South Australia, he was educated at Christian Brothers College in Adelaide before becoming a railway worker and firefighter. Moving to Newcastle, New South Wales, he qualified as an accountant. In 1940, he was elected to the...

 
ALP New South Wales 1941–1965
Archie Benn  ALP Queensland
Queensland
Queensland is a state of Australia, occupying the north-eastern section of the mainland continent. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Australia and New South Wales to the west, south-west and south respectively. To the east, Queensland is bordered by the Coral Sea and Pacific Ocean...

 
1950–1968
Bill Aylett  ALP Tasmania
Tasmania
Tasmania is an Australian island and state. It is south of the continent, separated by Bass Strait. The state includes the island of Tasmania—the 26th largest island in the world—and the surrounding islands. The state has a population of 507,626 , of whom almost half reside in the greater Hobart...

 
1938–1965
Reg Bishop
Reg Bishop
Reginald Bishop AO was an Australian politician. He was born in Adelaide and left school at fifteen and became a clerk in the South Australian Railways at the Islington Railway Workshops. He was an official of the Australian Railways Union from 1937 until 1956 and Secretary of the South...

 
ALP South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

 
1962–1981
George Branson
George Branson
George Howard Branson was an Australian politician. Born in Perth, Western Australia, he was educated at state schools before becoming a sales manager. He served in the military 1940-1946, returning to become a farmer. In 1958, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Liberal Senator for...

 
Liberal Western Australia
Western Australia
Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...

 
1958–1971
Marie Breen
Marie Breen
Dame Marie Breen, DBE was an Australian Senator representing the Liberal Party of Australia in the state of Victoria.-Biography:She was born in St Kilda, Melbourne. and christened Marie Freda Chamberlin...

 
Liberal Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....

 
1962–1968
Hon Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown (Australian politician)
Gordon Brown was a long-serving Australian politician.Born in Derbyshire, England, he was educated at Clay Cross Grammar School before becoming a printer and engineer. He migrated to Australia in 1912, where he became an organiser of the Shop Assistants' Union and of the Socialist Party...

 
ALP Queensland 1932–1965
Nancy Buttfield
Nancy Buttfield
Dame Nancy Buttfield DBE was an Australian Senator and the first woman to serve in the Australian Parliament as a representative of the state of South Australia....

 
Liberal South Australia 1955–1965, 1968–1974
Harry Cant  ALP Western Australia 1959–1974
Jim Cavanagh  ALP South Australia 1962–1981
Sam Cohen  ALP Victoria 1962–1969
George Cole
George Cole (Australian politician)
George Ronald Cole was an Australian politician. Born in Don, Tasmania, he was raised in the Methodist faith of his mother, educated at state schools and then the University of Tasmania, before becoming a teacher and headmaster in state schools.As an Australian rules footballer with New Town, Cole...

 
DLP
Democratic Labor Party
The Democratic Labor Party is a political party in Australia that espouses social conservatism and opposes neo-liberalism. The first "DLP" Senator in decades, party vice-president John Madigan was elected to the Australian Senate with 2.3 percent of the primary vote in Victoria at the 2010 federal...

 
Tasmania 1950–1965
Magnus Cormack
Magnus Cormack
Sir Magnus Cameron Cormack KBE was a Scottish-born Australian politician.Born in Caithness-shire, he migrated to Australia as a child, and was educated at St Peter's College in Adelaide. He became a farmer and grazier in the western district of Victoria before serving in the military during World...

 
Liberal Victoria 1951–1953, 1962–1978
Joe Cooke  ALP Western Australia 1947–1951, 1952–1965
Hon Walter Cooper  Country Queensland 1928–1932, 1935–1968
Felix Dittmer
Felix Dittmer
Felix Cyril Sigismund Dittmer was an Australian politician. Born in Dugandan, Queensland, he was educated at state schools and then the University of Queensland and the University of Sydney, becoming a doctor. He was an honorary surgeon in Brisbane...

 
ALP Queensland 1959–1971
Tom Drake-Brockman  Country Western Australia 1958, 1959–1978
Arnold Drury
Arnold Drury
Arnold Joseph Drury was an Australian politician. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a manufacturing grocer. He served in the military 1942-1945. In 1958, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for South Australia. He held the...

 
ALP South Australia 1959–1975
Joe Fitzgerald  ALP New South Wales 1949–1955 (HoR
Australian House of Representatives
The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....

), 1962–1974
Hon John Gorton
John Gorton
Sir John Grey Gorton, GCMG, AC, CH , Australian politician, was the 19th Prime Minister of Australia.-Early life:...

 
Liberal Victoria 1950–1968
Clive Hannaford  Liberal South Australia 1950–1967
George Hannan
George Hannan
George Conrad Hannan was an Australian politician.Born in Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, he was educated at Catholic schools and then the University of Melbourne. He became a barrister in 1934, and served in the military from 1942 to 1946...

 
Liberal Victoria 1956–1965, 1970–1974
Bert Hendrickson  ALP Victoria 1947–1971, 1970–1974
Hon Denham Henty
Denham Henty
Sir Denham Henty, KBE was an Australian politician.Henty was born in Longford, Tasmania and educated at Launceston Church Grammar School. He left school at 14 to work in his fathers wholesale business. In March 1930 he married Faith Gordon Spotswood and they subsequently had three sons and a...

 
Liberal Tasmania 1950–1968
Roy Kendall
Roy Kendall
Roy Kendall was an English-born Australian politician and intelligence agent . Born in London, he was educated at Bristol Cathedral School before becoming a merchant seaman. After serving in the military 1914–18, he was recruited by Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, MI6, in December 1941...

 
Liberal Queensland 1950–1965
Pat Kennelly  ALP Victoria 1953–1971
Keith Laught
Keith Laught
Keith Alexander Laught was an Australian politician. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he was educated at Scotch College and then the University of Adelaide, becoming a barrister in 1929. He served in the military 1940-1944. In 1951, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Liberal Senator...

 
Liberal South Australia 1951–1969
Elliot Lillico  Liberal Tasmania 1959–1974
Ted Maher  Country Queensland 1950–1965
John Marriott
John Marriott (Australian politician)
John Edward Marriott was an Australian politician. Born in Elliot, Tasmania, he was educated in Hobart at Hutchins School before serving in the military 1940-1945. He was a staff member with the Tasmanian Liberal Party from 1945 to 1949, and was Secretary to the Tasmanian Opposition Leader 1949-1953...

 
Liberal Tasmania 1953–1975
Hon Ted Mattner  Liberal South Australia 1944–1946, 1950–1968
Doug McClelland  ALP New South Wales 1962–1987
Hon Colin McKellar  Country New South Wales 1958–1970
Hon Nick McKenna  ALP Tasmania 1944–1968
Hon Alister McMullin
Alister McMullin
Sir Alister Maxwell McMullin was an Australian politician. Born in Scone, New South Wales, he was educated at state schools before becoming a farmer and grazier. He served in the Royal Australian Air Force in 1940-1945, and when he returned served on Upper Hunter Shire Council...

 
Liberal New South Wales 1951–1971
Kenneth Morris
Kenneth Morris (Australian politician)
Sir Kenneth James Morris KBE was an Australian politician. Born in Brisbane, he was educated at Brisbane Grammar School before becoming the director of his family's boot manufacturing firm. In 1931, he married Ettie Louise Dunlop. He served in the military 1939-1944, in Britain , Tobruk and Egypt...

 
Liberal Queensland 1963–1968
Lionel Murphy
Lionel Murphy
Lionel Keith Murphy, QC was an Australian politician and jurist who served as Attorney-General in the government of Gough Whitlam and as a Justice of the High Court of Australia from 1975 until his death.- Personal life :...

 
ALP New South Wales 1962–1975
Theo Nicholls  ALP South Australia 1944–1968
Justin O'Byrne
Justin O'Byrne
Justin Hilary O'Byrne, AO was a long-serving Australian Labor Party politician who represented Tasmania in the Federal Senate from 1947 to 1981, acting as President of the Senate from 1974 to 1975.-Biography:...

 
ALP Tasmania 1947–1981
James Ormonde
James Ormonde (Australian politician)
James Patrick Ormonde was a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Fife, he migrated to Australia as a child and was educated at Catholic schools in Maitland, New South Wales. He became a journalist first with the Labor Daily and then with the Sydney Morning Herald...

 
ALP New South Wales 1958, 1959–1970
Hon Shane Paltridge  Liberal Western Australia 1951–1966
Bob Poke  ALP Tasmania 1956–1974
Max Poulter  ALP Queensland 1962
Edgar Prowse
Edgar Prowse
Edgar Wylie Prowse was an Australian politician. Born in Kokeby, Western Australia, he was educated at state schools and then the University of Western Australia, becoming an agricultural scientist. He was a farmer at Doodlakine and Albany. The nephew of Country Party MP John Prowse, he was...

 
Country Western Australia 1962–1973
Dame Annabelle Rankin
Annabelle Rankin
Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin DBE was the second woman member of the Australian Senate, the first woman from Queensland to sit in the Parliament of Australia, the first woman to have a federal portfolio and the first woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission.-Biography:Rankin was born in...

 
Liberal Queensland 1947–1971
Clem Ridley  ALP South Australia 1959–1971
Charles Sandford
Charles Sandford
Charles Walter Sandford was an Australian politician.Born in the state of Victoria, he received a primary education before becoming a railway worker. He served in the military from 1914 to 1918, and returned as an official with the Australian Railways Union...

 
ALP Victoria 1947–1956, 1957–1966
Hon Malcolm Scott
Malcolm Scott
Malcolm Fox Scott , was an Australian politician and government minister.Scott was born in Western Australia and was a farmer and had extensive mining interests before entering parliament....

 
Liberal Western Australia 1950–1971
Bob Sherrington  Liberal Queensland 1962–1966
Peter Sim  Liberal Western Australia 1964–1981
Hon Bill Spooner  Liberal New South Wales 1950–1965
Dame Dorothy Tangney
Dorothy Tangney
Dame Dorothy Margaret Tangney DBE was an Australian politician and the first woman member of the Australian Senate.Dorothy Tangney started her career as a school teacher in Western Australia...

 
ALP Western Australia 1943–1968
Jim Toohey  ALP South Australia 1953–1971
Reg Turnbull  Independent Tasmania 1962–1974
Seddon Vincent Liberal Western Australia 1950–1964
Hon Harrie Wade
Harrie Wade
Harrie Walter Wade OBE was an Australian federal politician and minister.Wade was born in Clear Lake, Victoria and educated at Horsham State School and Horsham High School. He worked as a schoolteacher and clerk and then as an accountant at Goroke...

 
Country Victoria 1956–1964
James Webster
James Webster (Australian politician)
James Joseph Webster is a former member of the Australian Senate.Educated at Caulfield Grammar School and the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, he worked as an accountant and farmer prior to entering politics...

 
Country Victoria 1964–1981
Dame Ivy Wedgwood
Ivy Wedgwood
Dame Ivy Evelyn Wedgwood, DBE was an Australian Senator for Victoria.Wedgwood was the first female Senator to represent Victoria. During her 21 year term, which ran from 1950 to 1971, she became the first woman to chair a Senate Committee in 1968....

 
Liberal Victoria 1950–1971
George Whiteside
George Whiteside
George Irvine Whiteside was an Australian politician.Born in Victoria, he was educated at state schools before moving to Queensland to become a railway worker...

 
ALP Queensland 1962–1963
Don Willesee
Don Willesee
Donald Robert "Don" Willesee was an Australian politician, a member of the Australian Senate for 25 years representing Western Australia, and a Cabinet minister in the Whitlam government....

 
ALP Western Australia 1950–1975
Ian Wood
Ian Wood (Australian politician)
Ian Alexander Christie Wood was an Australian politician. Born at Mackay, Queensland, he was educated at state schools before becoming a travel agent. He served on Mackay City Council, including some years as mayor, 1930-1933, 1943-1953. He was also President of the Queensland Local Government...

 
Liberal Queensland 1950–1978
Reg Wright  Liberal Tasmania 1950–1978

See also

  • Australian House of Representatives
    Australian House of Representatives
    The House of Representatives is one of the two houses of the Parliament of Australia; it is the lower house; the upper house is the Senate. Members of Parliament serve for terms of approximately three years....

  • Australian electoral system
    Australian electoral system
    The Australian electoral system has evolved over nearly 150 years of continuous democratic government, and has a number of distinctive features including compulsory voting, preferential voting and the use of proportional voting to elect the upper house, the Australian Senate.- Compulsory voting...

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