Members of the Australian Senate, 1965–1968

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 1965 to 1968. Half of its members 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; the other half were elected at the 5 December 1964 half Senate election

Australian Senate election, 1964

Half-senate elections were held in Australia on 5 December 1964.Independent: Reg Turnbull -See also:*Candidates of the Australian Senate election, 1964*Members of the Australian Senate, 1965–1968-References:...

and had terms starting on 1 July 1965 and finishing on 30 June 1971.

Senator	Party	State	Years in Office
Hon Sir 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 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...	1953–1975
Archie Benn	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...	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
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
Tom Bull	Country 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...	New South Wales	1965–1971
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
Harry Cant	ALP	Western Australia	1959–1974
Jim Cavanagh	ALP	South Australia	1962–1981
Sam Cohen	ALP	Victoria	1962–1969
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
Hon Walter Cooper	Country	Queensland	1928–1932, 1935–1968
Bob Cotton	Liberal	New South Wales	1965–1978
Gordon Davidson Gordon Davidson (Australian politician) Gordon Sinclair Davidson was an Australian politician. He was a grazier and church administrator before entering politics. In 1961, he was appointed to the Australian Senate as a Liberal Senator for South Australia, filling the casual vacancy caused by the death of Rex Pearson...	Liberal	South Australia	1961, 1962, 1965–1981
Donald Devitt Donald Devitt Donald Michael Devitt was an Australian politician. Born in Launceston, Tasmania, he was educated at state schools before becoming a council clerk. He served in the military 1942-1945, after which he became a farmer and high school bursar. In 1964, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a...	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...	1965–1978
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 Vince Gair Vince Gair Vincent Clare "Vince" Gair was an Australian politician. He served as Premier of Queensland from 1952 until 1957, when his stormy relations with the trade union movement saw him expelled from the Australian Labor Party. He was elected to the Australian Senate and led the Democratic Labor Party...	DLP	Queensland	1965–1974
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
Ivor Greenwood Ivor Greenwood Ivor John Greenwood was an Australian politician and barrister.-Biography:Greenwood was born in North Melbourne and educated at Hartwell Central State School, Mont Albert Central State School, Scotch College and the University of Melbourne...	Liberal	Victoria	1968–1976
Clive Hannaford	Liberal	South Australia	1950–1967
Bill Heatley	Liberal	Queensland	1966–1968
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
Jim Keeffe	ALP	Queensland	1965–1983
Pat Kennelly	ALP	Victoria	1953–1971
Bert Lacey	ALP	Tasmania	1965–1971
Condor Laucke Condor Laucke Sir Condor Louis Laucke, KCMG was an Australian Liberal Party politician who served in both the South Australian House of Assembly and the Federal Senate, before becoming Lieutenant Governor of South Australia....	Liberal	South Australia	1967–1981
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
Ellis Lawrie	Liberal	Queensland	1965–1975
Elliot Lillico	Liberal	Tasmania	1959–1974
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
Frank McManus Frank McManus (Australian politician) Francis Patrick Vincent McManus , Australian politician, was the last leader of the parliamentary Democratic Labor Party and a prominent figure in Australian politics for 30 years....	DLP	Victoria	1956–1962, 1965–1974
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
Tony Mulvihill Tony Mulvihill James Anthony "Tony" Mulvihill was an Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was educated at Catholic schools before becoming a railways employee. He was an official with the Australian Railways Union and then served as Assistant Secretary of the New South Wales Labor Party from 1957 to 1965...	ALP	New South Wales	1965–1983
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
Arthur Poyser Arthur Poyser Arthur George Poyser was an Australian politician. Born in Ballarat, Victoria, he was educated at state schools in Geelong, after which he became a textile worker and tramway worker. He served in the military 1940-1941. From 1961 to 1966 he was Secretary of the Geelong Trades Hall Council...	ALP	Victoria	1966–1975
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
Hon 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
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
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
John Wheeldon John Wheeldon John Murray Wheeldon was an Australian federal politician and briefly a minister. He is mainly notable for his views on Australian foreign policy....	ALP	Western Australia	1964–1981
Laurie Wilkinson	ALP	Western Australia	1966–1974
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
Reg Withers Reg Withers Reginald Greive 'Reg' Withers is a former long-serving member of the Australian Senate, a former government minister, and former Lord Mayor of Perth....	Liberal	Western Australia	1966, 1967–1987
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