Members of the Australian Senate, 1981-1983

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 1 July 1981 to 5 February 1983:

Senator	Party	State	Years in Office
Brian Archer Brian Archer Brian Roper Archer was an Australian Senator who represented the Liberal Party for the state of Tasmania. He served as a Senator for from 13 December 1975 to 31 January 1994....	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...	1975–1994
Hon Dr Peter Baume Peter Baume Peter Erne Baume, AC is a former Australian politician.Baume was born in Sydney, New South Wales and was educated at North Sydney Boys High School and Sydney Grammar School. He married Jennifer Tucson 1958 and they have one son and one daughter...	Liberal	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...	1974–1991
Flo Bjelke-Petersen Flo Bjelke-Petersen Florence "Flo" Isabel, Lady Bjelke-Petersen is an Australian retired politician and writer. She was a member of the Australian Senate from 1981 to 1993, and is the widow of the longest-serving Premier of Queensland, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.-Biography:Born as Florence Isabel Gilmour in Brisbane,...	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...	Queensland	1981–1993
Nick Bolkus Nick Bolkus Nick Bolkus is a former Australian Labor Party politician. He was a member of the Senate from July 1981 to 2005, representing the state of South Australia.-Early career:...	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...	1981–2005
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	1971–1983
John Button John Button John Norman Button was an Australian politician, who served as a senior minister in the Hawke and Keating Labor governments...	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....	1974–1993
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
Fred Chaney Fred Chaney Frederick Michael Chaney, AO is a former Western Australian politician who, until April 2007, held the position of deputy chairman of the Australian Native Title Tribunal and is Chair of Desert Knowledge Australia and on the Board of Directors of Reconciliation Australia.Chaney was born in Perth,...	Liberal	Western Australia	1974–1990
Bruce Childs Bruce Childs Bruce Kenneth Childs is a former Australian politician. Born in Sydney, he was a tradesman in photo engraving and a secretary of the Printers' Union before becoming Assistant General Secretary of the New South Wales Labor Party 1971-1980. In 1980, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor...	ALP	New South Wales	1981–1997
Hon Don Chipp Don Chipp Donald Leslie Chipp, AO was an Australian politician, and the inaugural leader of the Australian Democrats.-Early life:...	Democrat Australian Democrats The Australian Democrats is an Australian political party espousing a socially liberal ideology. It was formed in 1977, by a merger of the Australia Party and the New LM, after principals of those minor parties secured the commitment of former Liberal minister Don Chipp, as a high profile leader...	Victoria	1977–1986
John Coates John Coates (Australian politician) John Coates is a retired Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at the University of Sydney, after which he became a biochemist at the University of Tasmania. In 1972, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Denison, defeating sitting...	ALP	Tasmania	1981–1996
Ruth Coleman Ruth Coleman Ruth Nancy Coleman was an Australian Senator who represented the Australian Labor Party for the state of Western Australia. She served as a Senator for 14 years, from 18 April 1974 to 5 June 1987.-References:...	ALP	Western Australia	1974–1987
Stan Collard Stan Collard Stanley James Collard is a retired Australian politician. Born at Maleny, Queensland, he was a locomotive engine driver before entering politics. In 1975, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Country Party Senator for Queensland. He remained in the Senate until his retirement in...	National	Queensland	1975–1987
Dr Mal Colston Mal Colston Malcolm Arthur "Mal" Colston , Australian politician, was a Senator in the Parliament of Australia representing the state of Queensland between 1975 and 1999...	ALP	Queensland	1975–1999
Noel Crichton-Browne Noel Crichton-Browne Noel Ashley Crichton-Browne is a former member of the Australian Senate and political lobbyist.He attended Scotch College, Perth....	Liberal	Western Australia	1981–1996
Hon 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
Ron Elstob Ron Elstob Ronald Charles "Ron" Elstob is a former Australian politician. Born in Toowoomba, Queensland, he was a waterside worker in Adelaide, South Australia, and an official with the Waterside Workers' Federation. In 1977 he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for South Australia. He...	ALP	South Australia	1977–1987
Gareth Evans Gareth Evans (politician) Gareth John Evans, AO, QC , is a former Australian politician from 1978 to 1999 representing the Australian Labor Party, serving in a number of ministries including Attorney-General and Foreign Minister from 1983 to 1996 in the Hawke and Keating governments. He was president and chief executive...	ALP	Victoria	1977–1996
Dominic Foreman Dominic Foreman Dominic John Foreman is a former Australian politician. He was a union official and South Australian Secretary of the Vehicle Builders' Employees' Union before entering politics. From 1979-1980 he was President of the South Australian Labor Party. In 1980, he was elected to the Australian Senate...	ALP	South Australia	1981–1997
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
Patricia Giles Patricia Giles Patricia Jessie Giles AM is a women's activist and former Australian Senator. She was the President of the International Alliance of Women for three terms, the last ending in 2004....	ALP	Western Australia	1981–1993
Dr Don Grimes Don Grimes Donald James "Don" Grimes AO is an Australian former politician. He was a minister in the Labor government of Bob Hawke.-Biography:...	ALP	Tasmania	1974–1987
Hon Dame 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
Janine Haines Janine Haines Janine Haines, AM , Australian politician, was the first female federal parliamentary leader of an Australian political party. An Australian Democrat, she was also the first member of that party to enter the federal parliament after the party's formation...	Democrat	South Australia	1977–1978, 1980–1990
David Hamer David Hamer David John Hamer, AM, DSC was an Australian politician. Born in Melbourne, he was educated at Geelong Grammar School and then the Royal Australian Naval College. He served in the Royal Australian Navy from 1940 to 1968. He was a lieutenant aboard during the battles of Leyte and Lingayen Gulf...	Liberal	Victoria	1977–1990
Brian Harradine Brian Harradine Richard William Brian Harradine , Australian politician, was an independent member of the Australian Senate from 1975 to 2005, representing the state of Tasmania. He was the longest-serving independent federal politician in Australian history, and a Father of the Senate.He was born in Quorn, South...	Independent	Tasmania	1975–2005
Jean Hearn Jean Hearn Jean Margaret Hearn was an Australian Senator and trade unionist. Hearn was appointed to the Senate on 15 October 1980 as a representative from Tasmania. She retired on 30 June 1985.-References:*...	ALP	Tasmania	1981–1985
Robert Hill Robert Hill (Australian politician) Robert Murray Hill is Chancellor of the University of Adelaide and a former Australian politician. He also currently heads the Australian Carbon Trust.-Early life and family:...	Liberal	South Australia	1981–2006
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
Gerry Jones Gerry Jones Gerry Norman Jones is a former Australian politician. Born at Roma, Queensland, he was a research assistant before becoming state organiser of the Queensland Labor Party 1967-1972. He was an Executive Officer 1976-1977 and State Secretary 1977-1980. In 1980, he was elected to the Australian Senate...	ALP	Queensland	1981–1996
Jim Keeffe	ALP	Queensland	1964–1983
Bernie Kilgariff Bernie Kilgariff Bernard Francis "Bernie" Kilgariff AM was an Australian politician. He was one of the founders of the Country Liberal Party and served as a member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly before being elected to the Australian Senate.-Early life:Kilgariff was born in Adelaide, South...	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 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...	1975–1987
Milivoj Lajovic Milivoj Lajovic Milivoj Emil Lajovic , also known as Misha Lajovic, was an Australian politician of Slovene origin.Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in what was then the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, he emigrated to Australia after the establishment of the Titoist regime in Yugoslavia in 1945. He became an...	Liberal	New South Wales	1975–1985
Austin Lewis Austin Lewis Austin William Russell Lewis was an Australian politician.Born in Melbourne, he was educated at the University of Melbourne before becoming a solicitor, company director and farmer. On 7 December 1976, he was appointed to the Australian Senate as a Liberal Senator for Victoria, filling the casual...	Liberal	Victoria	1976–1993
David MacGibbon David MacGibbon (Australian politician) David John MacGibbon is a retired Australian politician who served 21 years in the Australian Senate as a Liberal senator representing Queensland from 1978 to 1999.-Education and Early Career:...	Liberal	Queensland	1977–1999
Dr Michael Macklin Michael Macklin Michael John Macklin is a former Australian Franciscan friar, educator and fundraiser who was an Australian Democrats senator for Queensland,...	Democrat	Queensland	1981–1990
Kathy Martin Kathy Sullivan (Australian politician) Kathy Sullivan , Australian politician, was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1974 to 1984, representing Queensland, and a member of the House of Representatives for the Division of Moncrieff, Queensland, from 1984 to 2001. She served longer in the Australian Parliament than any other...	Liberal	Queensland	1974–1984
John Martyr John Martyr John Raymond Martyr is a former Australian politician.Born in Melbourne, he was a political and economic consultant before entering politics. Martyr had a long history of involvement with the Australian Labor Party from his late teens, but due to his involvement with the anti-communist Catholic...	Liberal	Western Australia	1981–1983
Colin Mason Colin Mason Colin Victor James Mason is a New Zealand-born Australian journalist, author and former politician.Mason worked for 14 years as the first foreign correspondent of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and became deeply involved in Asian affairs...	Democrat	New South Wales	1977–1987
Hon Doug McClelland	ALP	New South Wales	1961–1987
Gordon McIntosh Gordon McIntosh Gordon Douglas McIntosh is a Scottish-born Australian politician. Born in Glasgow, he was a toolmaker and served in the military 1945-1948. Having moved to Australia, he was president of the Western Australian Amalgamated Engineering Union, and Vice-President of the Western Australian Amalgamated...	ALP	Western Australia	1974–1987
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
Tony Messner Tony Messner Anthony John Messner AO is a former Australian politician and minister.Messner was born in Melbourne and educated at a state primary school in Queensland, Pulteney Grammar School, Adelaide and the South Australian Institute of Technology.Messner was elected as a Senator for South Australia at the...	Liberal	South Australia	1975–1990
Alan Missen Alan Missen - Early life :Missen's parents were Clifford Missen, labourer, and Violet . Clifford hailed from Lismore in western Victoria and Violet from Chiltern in northern Victoria. They met in Melbourne where they married in 1920 and settled in the inner eastern Melbourne suburb of Kew...	Liberal	Victoria	1974–1986
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
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
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
Robert Ray Robert Ray (Australian politician) Robert Francis Ray , Australian politician, was an Australian Labor Party member of the Senate from July 1981 to May 2008, representing the state of Victoria....	ALP	Victoria	1981–2008
Margaret Reid Margaret Reid Margaret Elizabeth Reid AO is a former Australian politician. She was the first woman to be President of the Australian Senate.-Early years:...	Liberal	Australian Capital Territory	1981–2003
Ted Robertson Ted Robertson Edward Albert "Ted" Robertson was an Australian politician. Born in Albany, Western Australia, he was educated at the University of Western Australia before becoming a teacher. Having moved to the Northern Territory, he became Chairman of the Northern Territory Council of Social Services...	ALP	Northern Territory	1975–1987
Susan Ryan Susan Ryan Susan Maree Ryan AO is an Australian educator who served as a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory 1975–87...	ALP	Australian Capital Territory	1975–1988
Hon Douglas Scott Douglas Scott (Australian politician) Douglas Barr Scott is a former Australian National Party politician and briefly government minister. Scott was born in Adelaide, South Australia and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney. He was a farmer and grazier before entering politics...	National	New South Wales	1970, 1974–1985
Kerry Sibraa Kerry Sibraa Kerry Walter Sibraa, AO was an Australian Senator who represented the Labor Party for the state of New South Wales. He served as a Senator for from 1 July 1975 to 30 June 1978, and then again from 9 August 1978 until 1 February 1994, and was President of the Senate from 17 February 1987 to 1...	ALP	New South Wales	1975–78, 1978–94
John Siddons John Siddons John Royston Siddons was an Australian politician. He was a businessman and the executive chairman of Siddons Industries Ltd. before entering politics. In 1980, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Democrats senator for Victoria...	Democrat	Victoria	1981–1983, 1985–1987
Michael Tate Michael Tate Michael Carter Tate AO is a former Australian Labor Party politician who later became an ambassador and then a Catholic priest....	ALP	Tasmania	1977–1993
Baden Teague Baden Teague Baden Chapman Teague served as a Liberal Senator for South Australia from 1977 until his retirement in 1996.Born in Adelaide, Teague was educated at the University of Adelaide and Cambridge University, where he gained a Ph.D.. He was employed as a university lecturer until he entered the Senate...	Liberal	South Australia	1977–1996
Andrew Thomas Andrew Thomas (Australian politician) Andrew Murray Thomas was a former Australian politician. Born in Blyth, South Australia, he was a farmer and stud breeder before entering politics. In 1975, he was elected to the Australian Senate as a Liberal Senator for Western Australia. He held the seat until his defeat in 1983.-References:...	Liberal	Western Australia	1975–1983
Michael Townley	Liberal	Tasmania	1970–1987
Peter Walsh	ALP	Western Australia	1974–1993
Shirley Walters Shirley Walters Mary Shirley Walters served as an Australian Senator for Tasmania from 13 December 1975. She retired from parliament on 30 June 1993. Before she entered politics she worked as a nurse. She is the daughter of Sir Eric Harrison....	Liberal	Tasmania	1975–1993
John 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...	Liberal	Tasmania	1978–2008
Rt Hon 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
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	1967–1983

¹ The National Country Party changed its name to the National Party of Australia during 1982.

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