Members of the Australian Senate, 1971–1974

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate
Australian Senate
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from 1971 to 1974. Half of its members were elected at the 25 November 1967 half Senate election

Australian Senate election, 1967

Half-senate elections were held in Australia on 25 November 1967.Independent: Reg Turnbull -See also:*Candidates of the Australian Senate election, 1967*Members of the Australian Senate, 1968–1971-References:...

and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1974; the other half were elected at the 21 November 1970 half Senate election

Australian Senate election, 1970

Half-senate elections were held in Australia on 21 November 1970.Independents: Reg Turnbull , Michael Townley , Syd Negus -See also:*Candidates of the Australian Senate election, 1970...

and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1977. In fact, the term for all of them was terminated by the double dissolution

Double dissolution

A double dissolution is a procedure permitted under the Australian Constitution to resolve deadlocks between the House of Representatives and the Senate....

for the 18 May 1974 election

Australian federal election, 1974

Federal elections were held in Australia on 18 May 1974. All 127 seats in the House of Representatives, and all 60 seats in the Senate were up for election, due to a double dissolution...

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
Hon 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 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...	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...	1961–1981
Neville Bonner Neville Bonner Neville Thomas Bonner AO was an Australian politician, and the first indigenous Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia...	Liberal	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...	1971–1983
Bill Brown	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....	1969–1970, 1971–1978
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
Condon Byrne Condon Byrne Condon Bryan Byrne , Australian politician, was a Senator with the Australian Labor Party and later the Democratic Labor Party...	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...	Queensland	1951–1959, 1968–1974
Don Cameron Donald Newton Cameron Donald Newton "Don" Cameron , Australian politician, was born in Murray Bridge, South Australia, and was educated at Gawler. Like his brother Clyde Cameron, he became a shearer and an official of the Australian Workers Union, and was also active in the Australian Labor Party...	ALP	South Australia	1969–1978
Harry Cant	ALP	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...	1959–1974
Hon John Carrick John Carrick (Australian politician) Sir John Leslie Carrick, AC, KCMG is a former Australian politician.-Early life:Carrick studied economics at the University of Sydney . Before he was able to commence his career to any great degree he fought with the Sparrow Force of the Australian Army during World War II. He was landed on...	Liberal	New South Wales	1970–1987
Hon Jim Cavanagh	ALP	South Australia	1961–1981
Hon Sir 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 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
Hon Tom Drake-Brockman	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...	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
Peter Durack Peter Durack Peter Drew Durack, QC was an Australian politician, representing the Liberal Party. He rose to become Attorney-General of Australia....	Liberal	Western Australia	1970–1993
Joe Fitzgerald	ALP	New South Wales	1949–1955 (HoR), 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
George Georges George Georges George Georges was a Labor senator for Queensland, Australia from 1968 to 1986. From 15 December 1986 he was an independent after quitting the ALP...	ALP	Queensland	1967–1987
Arthur Gietzelt Arthur Gietzelt Arthur Thomas Gietzelt, AO is a former Australian politician and minister.Gietzelt was educated at Hurstville High School. He served in the armed forces in New Guinea during World War II from 1941 to 1945....	ALP	New South Wales	1970–1989
Hon 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
Margaret Guilfoyle Margaret Guilfoyle Dame Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle, AC, DBE was a British-born Australian Senator for the state of Victoria from 1971 to 1987. She was the second woman to receive a federal ministerial portfolio, after Dame Enid Lyons...	Liberal	Victoria	1970–1987
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/National Liberal National Liberal Party (Australia) The National Liberal Party was a short-lived Australian political party formed in 1974 by Victorian Liberal Senator George Hannan. The party rejected a perceived leftward trend in the Liberal Party and sought to promote conservatism. Hannan contested the Senate in Victoria for the new party at the...	Victoria	1956–1965, 1970–1974
Don Jessop Don Jessop Donald Scott "Don" Jessop was an Australian politician. Born in Adelaide, he was educated at state schools and then the University of Adelaide, after which he became an optometrist at Port Augusta. He was a councillor with Port Augusta City...	Liberal	South Australia	1970–1991
Jack Kane Jack Kane John Thomas "Jack" Kane was an Australian politician. Born in Burraga, New South Wales, he was educated at Catholic schools in Lithgow, after which he became a coalminer. He was Vice-President of the Transport Workers' Union 1952-1956 and Assistant General Secretary of the New South Wales Labor...	DLP	New South Wales	1970–1974
Jim Keeffe	ALP	Queensland	1964–1983
Sir 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
Ellis Lawrie	Liberal	Queensland	1965–1975
Elliot Lillico	Liberal	Tasmania	1959–1974
Jack Little Jack Little (Australian politician) John Albert "Jack" Little was an Australian politician. Born in Maryborough, Victoria, he was educated at East Brunswick and Thornbury State Primary Schools, before becoming a Clicker in a Shoe factory in Collingwood, and later an official with the Victorian Boot Employees' Union, of which he was...	DLP	Victoria	1968–1974
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
Ron Maunsell Ron Maunsell Charles Ronald "Ron" Maunsell was an Australian politician. Born in Cairns, Queensland, he was educated at state schools before serving in the military 1942-1947. He returned to become a grazier at Longreach. In 1967, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Country Party Senator for Queensland...	Country	Queensland	1967–1981
Ron McAuliffe Ron McAuliffe Ronald Edward McAuliffe OBE was a politician and sports administrator in Queensland, Australia. He is best remembered for his years running the Queensland Rugby League, and his instrumental role in the formation of the State of Origin competition.McAuliffe attended school at St. Joseph's College,...	ALP	Queensland	1970–1981
Hon Doug McClelland	ALP	New South Wales	1961–1987
Hon Jim McClelland	ALP	New South Wales	1970–1978
Geoff McLaren Geoff McLaren Geoffrey Thomas "Geoff" McLaren was an Australian politician. Born in Koroit, Victoria, he was educated at state schools before becoming a shearer. In 1961 he moved to Murray Bridge in South Australia, where he became a poultry farmer. In 1970, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor...	ALP	South Australia	1970–1983
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
Bertie Milliner Bertie Milliner Bertie Milliner was an Australian trade unionist, politician and Senator, representing the Australian Labor Party . He would have been a minor figure in Australia’s political history but for the events that followed his sudden death...	ALP	Queensland	1968–1975
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	1964–1983
Hon 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
Syd Negus Syd Negus Sydney Ambrose "Syd" Negus was an Australian politician who was an Independent Senator for Western Australia from 1971 until 1974...	Independent	Western Australia	1971–1974
Hon 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
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
Cyril Primmer Cyril Primmer Cyril Graham Primmer was an Australian politician. Born in Warrnambool, Victoria, he was educated at state schools before becoming a dairy farmer at Koroit. He served in the military 1943-1945, and was a member of Belfast Shire Council. In 1970, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor...	ALP	Victoria	1971–1985
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
Peter Rae Peter Rae Peter Elliot Rae AO was an Australian Senator who represented the Liberal Party for the state of Tasmania. He served as a Senator for from 1967 until his resignation in January 1986...	Liberal	Tasmania	1967–1986
David Reid David Reid (Australian politician) David Donald Reid was an Australian politician. He briefly served as a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1971–1972 representing the seat of Blackwood, then in 1974 was appointed to the Australian Senate to serve out a vacancy which ended the same year.-Biography:Reid was...	Country	Western Australia	1974
Peter Sim	Liberal	Western Australia	1964–1981
Michael Townley Michael Townley (Australian politician) Michael Townley is a former Tasmanian senator. He served both as an Independent and as a Liberal Party of Australia senator....	Liberal	Tasmania	1970–1987
Reg Turnbull	Independent	Tasmania	1962–1974
James Webster	Country	Victoria	1964–1981
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
Hon Ken Wriedt Ken Wriedt Kenneth Shaw "Ken" Wriedt was an Australian politician and minister in the Whitlam government.Wriedt was born in Melbourne, of Danish ancestry. His early life included time spent as a seaman...	ALP	Tasmania	1964–1980
Hon Reg Wright	Liberal	Tasmania	1950–1978
Harold Young Harold Young Sir Harold William Young KCMG was an Australian Liberal Party politician who represented South Australia in the Senate from 1968 to 1983, acting as President of the Senate from 1981 to 1983.-Biography:...	Liberal	South Australia	1968–1981