This is a list of Members of the Parliament of Australia

Parliament of Australia

The Parliament of Australia, also known as the Commonwealth Parliament or Federal Parliament, is the legislative branch of the government of Australia. It is bicameral, largely modelled in the Westminster tradition, but with some influences from the United States Congress...

 who have served for at least 30 years.

Their service does not need to be continuous; broken terms are aggregated.

All these periods of service were spent in one House exclusively. A number of people have served in both the 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,...

 and the 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....

, but none of them to date has had an aggregate length of service to the Parliament reaching 30 years.

Those who were Father of the Senate or Father of the House of Representatives are shown. A Father of either House is the person currently serving who has served longer, continuously, than any other currently serving member of that House. Where two or more people have equal lengths of continuous service, more than any other people, they are called joint Fathers. The more senior of the Father of the House and the Father of the Senate is the Father of the Parliament

Father of the Australian Parliament

This is a list of Fathers of the Australian Parliament.The Father of the Parliament is the more senior of the Father of the Senate and the Father of the House of Representatives...

. Only those Fathers who served for 30 years or more will appear in this list.

Members of the Parliament who have served for at least 30 years

Name	Chamber	Start of service	End of service	Period of service	Continuous service	Father of the Senate/House	Father of the Parliament
Hughes, BillyBilly Hughes Billy Hughes William Morris "Billy" Hughes, CH, KC, MHR , Australian politician, was the seventh Prime Minister of Australia from 1915 to 1923....	House of Reps				Yes	1935-52	1938-52
Page, EarleSir Earle Page Earle Page Sir Earle Christmas Grafton Page, GCMG, CH was the 11th Prime Minister of Australia, and is to date the second-longest serving federal parliamentarian in Australian history, with 41 years, 361 days in Parliament.-Early life:...	House of Reps				Yes	1952-61	1952-61
Ruddock, PhilipPhilip Ruddock Philip Ruddock Philip Maxwell Ruddock is an Australian politician who is currently a member of the House of Representatives representing the Division of Berowra, New South Wales, for the Liberal Party of Australia...	House of Reps		currently serving		Yes	Father since 1998	Father since 1998
Pearce, GeorgeSir George Pearce George Pearce Sir George Foster Pearce KCVO was an Australian politician who was instrumental in founding the Australian Labor Party in Western Australia....	Senate				Yes	1923-38	No
Cooper, WalterSir Walter Cooper	Senate				No	1965-68	No
Maloney, WilliamWilliam Maloney William Maloney Dr William Robert Nuttal Maloney was a long serving Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for 36 years from 1904 to 1940....	House of Reps				Yes	No	No
McEwen, JohnSir John McEwen John McEwen Sir John "Black Jack" McEwen, GCMG, CH , was an Australian politician and the 18th Prime Minister of Australia...	House of Reps				Yes	Joint Father 1963-69 Father 1969-71	Joint Father 1965-69 Father 1969-71
Makin, NormanNorman Makin Norman Makin Norman John Oswald Makin AO , Australian politician, was a Cabinet minister, Speaker of the House of Representatives and diplomat.-Early life:...	House of Reps				No	No	No
Brennan, FrankFrank Brennan	House of Reps				No	No	No
Clark, JoeJoe Clark Joe Clark (Australian politician) Joseph "Joe" James Clark, CBE was an Australian politician, serving in the Australian House of Representatives as the Member for Darling from 15 September 1934 to 29 September 1969, a term of making him one of the longest-serving members of the House of Representatives.Clark's father was Joseph...	House of Reps				Yes	Joint Father 1963-69	Joint Father 1965-69
Sinclair, IanIan Sinclair Ian Sinclair Ian McCahon Sinclair AC , is an Australian politician and former leader of the National Party of Australia.Sinclair was born in Sydney, the son of a suburban accountant. He was educated at Knox Grammar School and at the University of Sydney, where he graduated in arts and law...	House of Reps				Yes	1990-98	1990-98
Watkins, DavidDavid Watkins David Watkins (Australian politician) David Watkins was an Australian politician and Member of the Australian House of Representatives for Newcastle from 1901 until his death in 1935....	House of Reps				Yes	No	No
O'Byrne, JustinJustin 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:...	Senate				Yes	Joint Father 1968-71 Father 1971-81	1977-81
Howard, JohnJohn Howard John Howard John Winston Howard AC, SSI, was the 25th Prime Minister of Australia, from 11 March 1996 to 3 December 2007. He was the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies....	House of Reps				Yes	No	No
Cadman, AlanAlan Cadman Alan Cadman Alan Glyndwr Cadman, AM , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives from 18 May 1974 to 17 October 2007, representing the Division of Mitchell, New South Wales....	House of Reps				Yes	No	No
Brown, GordonGordon 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...	Senate				Yes	Joint Father 1947-50 Father 1950-65	1963-65
Groom, LittletonSir Littleton Groom Littleton Groom Sir Littleton Ernest Groom, KCMG was an Australian Commonwealth Minister, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Australia's 17th longest serving federal Parliamentarian . He was a member of every non-Australian Labor Party ministry from 1905 to 1926...	House of Reps				No	No	No
Francis, JosiahSir Josiah Francis Josiah Francis Sir Josiah Francis was an Australian politician and Minister for the Army.Francis was born in Ipswich, Queensland and educated at Christian Brothers' College, Ipswich and was appointed as a clerk in the Queensland Department of Justice in 1908...	House of Reps				Yes	No	No
Holt, HaroldHarold Holt Harold Holt Harold Edward Holt, CH was an Australian politician and the 17th Prime Minister of Australia.His term as Prime Minister was brought to an early and dramatic end in December 1967 when he disappeared while swimming at Cheviot Beach near Portsea, Victoria, and was presumed drowned.Holt spent 32 years...	House of Reps				Yes	No	No
Ward, EddieEddie Ward Eddie Ward Edward John "Eddie" Ward , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives for 32 years from 1931 until his death....	House of Reps				No	1961-63	1961-63
Beazley, KimKim Beazley, Sr. Kim Edward Beazley Kim Edward Beazley, AO , known as Kim Beazley during his career, Australian politician, was Minister for Education in the government of Gough Whitlam and a Labor member of the Australian House of Representatives for 32 years, from 1945 to 1977.Beazley, the youngest of seven children, was born in...	House of Reps				Yes	1975-77	1975-77
Daly, FredFred Daly	House of Reps				Yes	1972-75	1972-75
Calwell, ArthurArthur Calwell Arthur Calwell Arthur Augustus Calwell Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for 32 years from 1940 to 1972, Immigration Minister in the government of Ben Chifley from 1945 to 1949 and Leader of the Australian Labor Party from 1960 to 1967.-Early life:Calwell was born in...	House of Reps				Yes	1971-72	1971-72
McMahon, WilliamSir William McMahon William McMahon Sir William "Billy" McMahon, GCMG, CH , was an Australian Liberal politician and the 20th Prime Minister of Australia...	House of Reps				Yes	Joint Father 1977-80 Father 1980-82	1981-82
Lynch, PatrickPatrick Lynch Patrick Lynch Patrick Lynch is the name of:*Patrick Neeson Lynch , Catholic bishop during the American Civil War*Patrick Lynch , Irish Roman Catholic bishop...	Senate				Yes	No	No
Menzies, RobertSir Robert Menzies Robert Menzies Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, , Australian politician, was the 12th and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia....	House of Reps				Yes	Joint Father 1963-66	Joint Father 1965-66
Uren, TomTom Uren Tom Uren Thomas Uren, AO was a Deputy Leader of the Australian Labor Party. He helped establish the heritage and conservation movement in Australia and, in particular, worked to preserve the heritage of inner Sydney.-Early life:...	House of Reps				Yes	1984-90	1984-90
Scullin, JamesJames Scullin James Scullin James Henry Scullin , Australian Labor politician and the ninth Prime Minister of Australia. Two days after he was sworn in as Prime Minister, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 occurred, marking the beginning of the Great Depression and subsequent Great Depression in Australia.-Early life:Scullin was...	House of Reps				No	No	No
Cameron, ClydeClyde Cameron Clyde Cameron Clyde Robert Cameron, AO , Australian politician, was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for 31 years from 1949 to 1980, a Cabinet minister in the Whitlam government and a leading figure in the Australian labour movement for forty years.-Biography:Cameron was born in Murray Bridge,...	House of Reps				Yes	Joint Father 1977-80	No
Jull, DavidDavid Jull David Jull David Francis Jull was an Australian politician. He was a long-serving Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Division of Bowman, Queensland, from 1975–83 and Fadden, Queensland, from 1984–2007.Jull was born in Kingaroy, Queensland, and was educated at the...	House of Reps				No	No	No
Lazzarini, HubertHubert Lazzarini Hubert Lazzarini Hubert Peter Lazzarini was an Australian politician, holding the division of Werriwa as the Australian Labor Party member for most years from 1919 until his death....	House of Reps				No	No	No
Crawford, ThomasThomas Crawford Thomas Crawford (Australian politician) Thomas William Crawford was a long-serving member of the Australian Senate and joint Father of the Senate.-Early life:...	Senate				Yes	Joint Father 1938-47	No
Foll, HarryHarry Foll	Senate				Yes	Joint Father 1938-47	No
Watson, JohnJohn Watson John Watson (Australian politician) John Odin Wentworth Watson is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1978 to 2008, representing the state of Tasmania...	Senate				Yes	2005-08	No

Sources

• Handbook of the 42nd Parliament: Longest serving senators

• Handbook of the 42nd Parliament: Longest serving members

• Handbook of the 42nd Parliament: Members of the Senate since 1901

• Handbook of the 42nd Parliament: Members of the House of Representatives since 1901