Members of the Australian Senate, 2011–2014

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,...

between 2011 and 2014. This includes senators elected at the 2007 federal election (whose terms are 2008–2014), and those elected at the 2010 federal election (whose terms are 2011–2017). The new Senate met in July 2011, with state senators elected in 2010 sworn in on 4 July 2011.

Senator	Party	State	Term commenced	Term ends
Hon Eric Abetz Eric Abetz Eric Abetz , has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since February 1994, representing the state of Tasmania. He is currently Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. He was educated at the University of Tasmania and was a barrister and solicitor before entering politics...	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...	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...	1994	2017
Judith Adams Judith Adams Judith Anne Adams , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing Western Australia. She was born in Picton, New Zealand, and was a trained nurse and midwife experienced in health care policy...	Liberal	Western Australia	2005	2017
Mark Arbib Mark Arbib Mark Victor Arbib is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of New South Wales. He was the Australian Labor Party State Secretary of the New South Wales branch from 2004 to 2007...	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...	2008	2014
Dr Chris Back Chris Back Christopher John "Chris" Back is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since 2009....	Liberal	Western Australia	2009	2017
Cory Bernardi Cory Bernardi Cory Bernardi is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since 2006, representing the state of South Australia.-Early life:...	Liberal	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...	2006	2014
Catryna Bilyk Catryna Bilyk Catryna Louise Bilyk is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Tasmania....	ALP	Tasmania	2008	2014
Simon Birmingham Simon Birmingham Simon John Birmingham is an Australian politician and Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since 2007, representing South Australia.-Early life and career:...	Liberal	South Australia	2007	2014
Mark Bishop Mark Bishop Thomas Mark Bishop , has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Western Australia since July 1996. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia and was educated at the University of Adelaide and Harvard University...	ALP	Western Australia	1996	2014
Hon Ron Boswell Ron Boswell Ronald Leslie Doyle "Ron" Boswell , Australian politician, has been a National Party member of the Australian Senate since 5 March 1983, representing Queensland. Since 2008 he has been the Father of the Senate....	LNP	Queensland	1983	2014
Sue Boyce Sue Boyce Suzanne Kay "Sue" Boyce , Australian politician, businesswoman and disability advocate, is a member of the Australian Senate for Queensland. She was selected by the Liberal Party in Queensland to replace Santo Santoro in the Senate, and endorsed by the Parliament of Queensland. She is Queensland's...	LNP	Queensland	2007	2014
Hon George Brandis George Brandis George Henry Brandis, SC , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing Queensland since May 2000.-Education & Early Career:... , SC	LNP	Queensland	2000	2017
Dr Bob Brown Bob Brown Robert James Brown is an Australian senator, the inaugural Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Greens and was the first openly gay member of the Parliament of Australia...	Greens Australian Greens The Australian Greens, commonly known as The Greens, is an Australian green political party.The party was formed in 1992; however, its origins can be traced to the early environmental movement in Australia and the formation of the United Tasmania Group , the first Green party in the world, which...	Tasmania	1996	2014
Carol Brown	ALP	Tasmania	2005	2014
David Bushby David Bushby David Christopher Bushby , Australian politician, a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since August 2007, representing the state of Tasmania....	Liberal	Tasmania	2007	2014
Doug Cameron Doug Cameron (politician) Douglas Niven Cameron is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of New South Wales....	ALP	New South Wales	2008	2014
Hon Kim Carr Kim Carr Kim John Carr is an Australian politician. He has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since April 1993, representing the state of Victoria. He was elected to the Senate at the March 1993 election, and was due to take his seat on 1 July...	ALP	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....	1993	2017
Michaelia Cash Michaelia Cash Michaelia Clare Cash is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia.Cash was first elected to parliament at the 2007 federal election...	Liberal	Western Australia	2008	2014
Hon Richard Colbeck Richard Colbeck Richard Mansell Colbeck , Australian politician, is a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing Tasmania. He was born in Myrtleford, Victoria, and was educated at Devonport Technical College. He was a Building estimator and supervisor, managing director and proprietor of a building...	Liberal	Tasmania	2002	2014
Jacinta Collins Jacinta Collins Jacinta Mary Ann Collins , is an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate. She served from May 1995 to 2005, and again from May 2008, representing the state of Victoria....	ALP	Victoria	1995–2005, 2008	2014
Hon Stephen Conroy Stephen Conroy Stephen Michael Conroy is an Australian politician and the current Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy in the Gillard Ministry...	ALP	Victoria	1996	2017
Hon Helen Coonan Helen Coonan Helen Lloyd Coonan is a former Australian politician, who was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate representing New South Wales from July 1996 to August 2011.-Early life:...	Liberal	New South Wales	1996	2011
Mathias Cormann Mathias Cormann Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann is an Australian politician. He is a Liberal Party of Australia Senator for Western Australia, having been chosen by the Parliament of Western Australia on 19 June 2007 to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Senator Ian Campbell...	Liberal	Western Australia	2008	2017
Trish Crossin Trish Crossin Patricia Margaret "Trish" Crossin , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the Northern Territory since June 1998, representing the Australian Labor Party...	ALP	Northern Territory Northern Territory The Northern Territory is a federal territory of Australia, occupying much of the centre of the mainland continent, as well as the central northern regions...	1998	2013
Richard Di Natale Richard Di Natale Richard Di Natale is an Australian politician and member of the Victorian Greens. Di Natale was elected to the Australian Senate in the 2010 Australian federal election...	Greens	Victoria	2011	2017
Sean Edwards Sean Edwards (politician) Sean Christopher Edwards is an Australian politician and member of the Liberal Party, elected to the Senate in South Australia at the 2010 election.-Early Career:...	Liberal	South Australia	2011	2017
Dr Alan Eggleston Alan Eggleston Dr Alan Eggleston , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1996, representing Western Australia. He was born in Busselton, Western Australia, and was educated at the University of Western Australia, where he studied medicine, and at Murdoch University,...	Liberal	Western Australia	1996	2014
Hon Chris Evans Chris Evans (Australian politician) Christopher Vaughan Evans is an Australian politician and a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia, representing the Australian Labor Party.-Early life:...	ALP	Western Australia	1993	2017
Don Farrell Don Farrell Donald Edward Farrell is an Australian politician and former trade union leader. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since 1 July 2008, representing the state of South Australia. He was appointed Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Urban Water on 14 September 2010...	ALP	South Australia	2008	2014
Hon John Faulkner John Faulkner John Philip Faulkner is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since 1989, representing the state of New South Wales. Following a period serving on various Senate Committees and as Deputy Whip, he was a Minister in the Keating Labor government 1993-96...	ALP	New South Wales	1989	2017
David Fawcett David Fawcett David Julian Fawcett is an Australian politician and member of the Australian Senate. He was elected to the House of Representatives as member for the division of Wakefield in South Australia for the Liberal Party of Australia at the 2004 federal election. Despite an extensive campaign in 2007 he...	Liberal	South Australia	2011	2017
David Feeney David Feeney David Ian Feeney is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008.Feeney was born in Adelaide. His father is a immigrant from Northern Ireland. Raised Catholic, he attended Mercedes College, Adelaide before moving to Melbourne, where he attended...	ALP	Victoria	2008	2014
Concetta Fierravanti-Wells Concetta Fierravanti-Wells Concetta Anna Fierravanti-Wells , Australian politician, is a member of Australian Senate for the state of New South Wales...	Liberal	New South Wales	2005	2017
Mitch Fifield Mitch Fifield Mitchell Peter "Mitch" Fifield , Australian politician, is member of the Australian Senate since March 2004, representing the state of Victoria for the Liberal Party.-Early years:...	Liberal	Victoria	2004	2014
Mary Jo Fisher Mary Jo Fisher Mary Josephine Fisher is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since 2007, representing the state of South Australia....	Liberal	South Australia	2007	2017
Mark Furner Mark Furner Mark Lionel Furner is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor member of Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Queensland....	ALP	Queensland	2008	2014
Alex Gallacher Alex Gallacher Alexander McEachian "Alex" Gallacher is an Australian politician and member of the Australian Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate representing South Australia at the 2010 federal election....	ALP	South Australia	2011	2017
Sarah Hanson-Young Sarah Hanson-Young Sarah Coral Hanson-Young is an Australian politician. She has been a Greens member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of South Australia. she is the youngest person ever elected to the Australian Senate....	Greens	South Australia	2008	2014
Hon Bill Heffernan Bill Heffernan William Daniel Heffernan, more commonly known as Bill Heffernan, , Australian politician, has been a Liberal Party member of the Senate, representing the state of New South Wales, since September 1996.-Early life:...	Liberal	New South Wales	1996	2017
Hon John Hogg John Hogg John Joseph Hogg is an Australian politician, and has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. He was elected the 23rd President of the Senate on 26 August 2008.Hogg was born in Brisbane to Francis Patrick and...	ALP	Queensland	1996	2014
Gary Humphries Gary Humphries Gary John Joseph Humphries has been a member of the Australian Senate representing the Australian Capital Territory for the Liberal Party of Australia since 2003...	Liberal	Australian Capital Territory Australian Capital Territory The Australian Capital Territory, often abbreviated ACT, is the capital territory of the Commonwealth of Australia and is the smallest self-governing internal territory...	2003	2013
Hon David Johnston David Johnston (politician) David Albert Lloyd Johnston , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2002, representing the state of Western Australia. Johnston was born in Perth and was educated at University of Western Australia, where he graduated in law...	Liberal	Western Australia	2002	2014
Barnaby Joyce Barnaby Joyce Barnaby Thomas Gerald Joyce , Australian politician, has been a National Party member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Queensland since July 2005...	LNP	Queensland	2005	2017
Helen Kroger Helen Kroger Helen Kroger is an Australian politician. She has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Victoria...	Liberal	Victoria	2008	2014
Scott Ludlam Scott Ludlam Scott Ludlam is an Australian politician and Greens member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia....	Greens	Western Australia	2008	2014
Hon Joe Ludwig Joe Ludwig Senator the Hon Joseph William Ludwig , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Queensland since July 1999, representing the Australian Labor Party.-Biography:...	ALP	Queensland	1999	2017
Kate Lundy Kate Lundy Kate Alexandra Lundy is a member of the Australian Senate, representing the Australian Capital Territory.Born in Sydney, Lundy dropped out of Year 11 without telling her parents and went to work on a construction site...	ALP	Australian Capital Territory	1996	2013
Hon Ian Macdonald Ian Macdonald (Australian politician) Ian Douglas Macdonald , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1990, representing Queensland. He was born in Brisbane, Queensland, and was a solicitor before entering politics...	LNP	Queensland	1990	2014
Anne McEwen	ALP	South Australia	2005	2017
Bridget McKenzie Bridget McKenzie Bridget McKenzie is an Australian politician and National Party of Australia member of the Australian Senate for Victoria. She was elected to the Australian Senate representing Victoria at the 2010 federal election.-References:...	National National Party of Australia The National Party of Australia is an Australian political party.Traditionally representing graziers, farmers and rural voters generally, it began as the The Country Party, but adopted the name The National Country Party in 1975, changed to The National Party of Australia in 1982. The party is...	Victoria	2011	2017
Hon Jan McLucas Jan McLucas Jan Elizabeth McLucas is an Australian politician, representing Queensland and the Australian Labor Party in the Australian Senate.-Biography:McLucas's parents are Ronald and Audrey McLucas...	ALP	Queensland	1999	2017
John Madigan John Madigan (Australian politician) John Joseph Madigan is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Democratic Labor Party , elected to the Australian Senate with 2.3 percent of the primary vote in Victoria at the 2010 federal election, serving a six-year term since July 2011.-Early life:Born into a Catholic family, Madigan...	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...	Victoria	2011	2017
Gavin Marshall Gavin Marshall Gavin Mark Marshall , Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2002, representing the state of Victoria....	ALP	Victoria	2002	2014
Hon Brett Mason Brett Mason Dr Brett John Mason , Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1999, representing the state of Queensland. He was the Parliamentary Secretary for Health....	LNP	Queensland	1999	2017
Christine Milne Christine Milne Christine Anne Milne is an Australian Senator and deputy leader of the Australian Greens.Christine Milne first came to public attention for her role in opposing the building of the Wesley Vale pulp mill near Bass Strait in North Western Tasmania on the basis of its allegedly harmful environmental...	Greens	Tasmania	2005	2017
Claire Moore Claire Moore Claire Mary Moore is an Australian politician. Moore was elected to the Australian Senate from Queensland in July 2001, representing the Australian Labor Party. Her term began on 1 July 2002....	ALP	Queensland	2002	2014
Fiona Nash Fiona Nash Fiona Joy Nash , Australian politician, has been a National Party of Australia member of the Australian Senate since 1 July 2005, representing the state of New South Wales....	National	New South Wales	2005	2017
Marise Payne Marise Payne Marise Ann Payne is an Australian politician. She is a Liberal Senator for the state of New South Wales. Senator Payne was appointed to the Senate on 9 April 1997, and elected in 2001 for a full term, and again in 2007.-Early life:...	Liberal	New South Wales	1997	2014
Stephen Parry Stephen Parry (politician) Stephen Shane Parry , Australian politician, has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing the state of Tasmania. He was elected Government Deputy Whip in the Senate in November 2006 and elected Government Whip in April 2007 in succession to the late...	Liberal	Tasmania	2005	2017
Helen Polley Helen Polley Helen Beatrice Polley is an Australian Labor Party Senator for the state of Tasmania, since 1 July 2005.Before entering the federal government Polley was an advisor to two Labor Premiers of Tasmania; Jim Bacon and Paul Lennon. She was elected to the Senate in 2004 and her term began in...	ALP	Tasmania	2005	2017
Louise Pratt Louise Pratt Louise Clare Pratt is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia. She had been assured of election at the 2007 federal election after winning the first position on the Labor ticket, defeating incumbent...	ALP	Western Australia	2008	2014
Lee Rhiannon Lee Rhiannon Lee Rhiannon , an Australian politician, is a Senator for New South Wales, elected at the 2010 federal election, representing the Australian Greens...	Greens	New South Wales	2011	2017
Hon Michael Ronaldson Michael Ronaldson Michael John Clyde Ronaldson is an Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing the state of Victoria....	Liberal	Victoria	2005	2017
Scott Ryan Scott Ryan (Australian politician) Scott Michael Ryan is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Victoria....	Liberal	Victoria	2008	2014
Hon Nigel Scullion Nigel Scullion Nigel Gregory Scullion , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the Northern Territory since November 2001, representing the Country Liberal Party...	CLP Country Liberal Party The Northern Territory Country Liberal Party is a Northern Territory political party affiliated with both the National and Liberal parties...	Northern Territory	2001	2013
Hon Nick Sherry Nick Sherry Nicholas John Sherry , Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania since July 1990, representing the Australian Labor Party. Sherry was sworn in as the Assistant Treasurer on 9 June 2009, after serving as the first Australian Minister for...	ALP	Tasmania	1990	2014
Rachel Siewert Rachel Siewert Rachel Mary Siewert is an Australian Greens politician who was elected to represent Western Australia in the Australian Senate at the 2004 federal election....	Greens	Western Australia	2005	2017
Lisa Singh Lisa Singh Lisa Maria Singh is an Australian politician. She is currently an Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania. From 2006 to 2010, she was a Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly, representing the division of Denison....	ALP	Tasmania	2011	2017
Arthur Sinodinos	Liberal	New South Wales	2011	2014
Hon Ursula Stephens Ursula Stephens Ursula Mary Stephens is an Australian politician. She was elected to the Australian Senate for New South Wales in November 2001, representing the Australian Labor Party. She began her term on 1 July 2002....	ALP	New South Wales	2002	2014
Glenn Sterle Glenn Sterle Glenn Sterle is an Australian politician. A former trade union organiser, he has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since 2005, representing the state of Western Australia....	ALP	Western Australia	2005	2017
Matt Thistlethwaite Matt Thistlethwaite Matthew James "Matt" Thistlethwaite is an Australian politician and member of the Australian Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate representing New South Wales at the 2010 federal election...	ALP	New South Wales	2011	2017
Anne Urquhart Anne Urquhart Anne Elizabeth Urquhart is an Australian politician and member of the Australian Labor Party. She was elected to the Australian Senate representing Tasmania at the 2010 Australian federal election....	ALP	Tasmania	2011	2017
Larissa Waters Larissa Waters Larissa Joy Waters is an Australian Greens Senator for Queensland.Waters was born in Winnipeg, Canada, grew up in Brisbane and lives in Bardon with her partner and their young daughter...	Greens	Queensland	2011	2017
John Williams	National	New South Wales	2008	2014
Hon Penny Wong Penny Wong Penelope "Penny" Ying-yen Wong , is an Australian Labor Party senator for South Australia and the Federal Minister for Finance and Deregulation. Wong was the first Australian Minister for Climate Change and Water. Her appointment was amended on 26 February 2010, by the Prime Minister, to the...	ALP	South Australia	2002	2014
Penny Wright Penny Wright Penelope Lesley "Penny" Wright is an Australian Greens senator for South Australia, first elected at the 2010 election.-Early life:...	Greens	South Australia	2011	2017
Nick Xenophon Nick Xenophon Nicholas "Nick" Xenophon is a South Australian barrister, anti-gambling campaigner and politician. He attended Prince Alfred College, and studied law at the University of Adelaide, attaining his Bachelor of Laws in 1981. Xenophon established and became principal of his own law firm, Xenophon & Co....	Independent	South Australia	2008	2014

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