Members of the Australian Senate, 1990–1993

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 1993.[1] Half of the state senators had been allocated a long term following the double dissolution election in 1987 and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1993; the other half of the state senators were elected at the March 1990 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1996. The territory senators were elected at the March 1990 election and their terms ended at the next federal election, which was March 1993.

Senate composition at 1 July 1990
Government (32)

  Labor (32) - (7 seat minority)

Opposition (34)
Coalition
  Liberal (28)
  National Party (5)
  CLP (1)

Crossbench (10)
  Democrat (8) [lower-roman 1]
  WA Greens (1)
  Independent (1)
 
Changes in composition

  1. Janet Powell was elected as an Australian Democrats member, but resigned in July 1992 and served out the remainder of her term as an independent.

The composition of the Senate was affected by the decision in 1987 as to which Senators received a long term, with Labor and the Democrats voting to reject the alternate "recount" method that had been unanimously recommended by the Joint Select Committee on Electoral Reform in 1983,[2] and facilitated by the Commonwealth Electoral Act.[3] Thus the Labor government, with only 32 seats, needed 7 additional votes to achieve the majority necessary to pass legislation.[4] Because the Democrats had got 2 additional long vacancies in 1987, in South Australia and New South Wales,[5][6] the Democrats had a total of 8 seats from 1990 and thus continued to hold the balance of power, even after Janet Powell resigned from the Democrats in 1992.

Senator Party State End term Years in Office
Richard Alston LiberalVictoria19961986–2004
Brian Archer LiberalTasmania19931975–1994
Terry Aulich LaborTasmania19931984–1993
Michael Baume LiberalNew South Wales19931984–1996
Hon. Peter Baume [lower-alpha 1] LiberalNew South Wales19931974–1991
Michael Beahan LaborWestern Australia19961987–1996
Robert Bell DemocratTasmania19961990–1996
Bronwyn Bishop LiberalNew South Wales19961987–1994
Florence Bjelke-Petersen NationalQueensland19931980–1993
Hon. Nick Bolkus LaborSouth Australia19931981–2005
Ron Boswell NationalQueensland19961983–2014
Vicki Bourne DemocratNew South Wales19961990–2002
David Brownhill NationalNew South Wales19961984–2000
Bryant Burns LaborQueensland19961987–1996
Hon. John Button [lower-alpha 2] LaborVictoria19931974–1993
Paul Calvert LiberalTasmania19961987–2007
Ian Campbell LiberalWestern Australia19931990–2007
Kim Carr [lower-alpha 2] LaborVictoria19931993–present
Christabel Chamarette [lower-alpha 3] WA GreensWestern Australia19961992–1996
Grant Chapman LiberalSouth Australia19961987–2008
Bruce Childs LaborNew South Wales19961980–1997
John Coates LaborTasmania19931980–1996
Hon. Bob Collins LaborNorthern Territory1993, 1996 [lower-alpha 4]1987–1998
Mal Colston LaborQueensland19931975–1999
Hon. Peter Cook LaborWestern Australia19931983–2005
Barney Cooney LaborVictoria19961984–2002
John Coulter DemocratSouth Australia19961987–1995
Winston Crane LiberalWestern Australia19961990–2002
Noel Crichton-Browne LiberalWestern Australia19961980–1996
Rosemary Crowley LaborSouth Australia19961983–2002
John Devereux LaborTasmania19961987–1996
Hon. Peter Durack [lower-alpha 5] LiberalWestern Australia19931970–1993
Hon. Gareth Evans LaborVictoria19931977–1996
John Faulkner LaborNew South Wales19931989–2015
Alan Ferguson [lower-alpha 6] LiberalSouth Australia19931992–2011
Dominic Foreman LaborSouth Australia19931980–1997
Patricia Giles LaborWestern Australia19931980–1993
Brian Harradine IndependentTasmania19931975–2005
John Herron LiberalQueensland19961990–2002
Robert Hill LiberalSouth Australia19961981–2006
Gerry Jones LaborQueensland19961980–1996
Rod Kemp LiberalVictoria19961990–2008
Cheryl Kernot DemocratQueensland19961990–1997
Sue Knowles LiberalWestern Australia19931984–2005
Meg Lees DemocratSouth Australia19931990–2005
Austin Lewis LiberalVictoria19931976–1993
Stephen Loosley LaborNew South Wales19961990–1995
Ian Macdonald LiberalQueensland19961990–2019
David MacGibbon LiberalQueensland19931977–1999
Graham Maguire LaborSouth Australia19931983–1993
Jim McKiernan LaborWestern Australia19961984–2002
Paul McLean [lower-alpha 7] DemocratNew South Wales19931987–1991
Hon. Bob McMullan LaborAustralian Capital Territory1993, 1996 [lower-alpha 4]1988–1996
Jocelyn Newman LiberalTasmania19961986–2002
Bill O'Chee NationalQueensland19931990–1999
John Olsen [lower-alpha 6] LiberalSouth Australia19931990–1992
John Panizza LiberalWestern Australia19961987–1997
Warwick Parer LiberalQueensland19931984–2000
Kay Patterson LiberalVictoria19961987–2008
Janet Powell Democrat/Ind [lower-alpha 8]Victoria19931986–1993
Hon. Robert Ray LaborVictoria19961981–2008
Margaret Reid LiberalAustralian Capital Territory1993, 1996 [lower-alpha 4]1981–2003
Hon. Margaret Reynolds LaborQueensland19931983–1999
Hon. Graham Richardson LaborNew South Wales19931983–1994
Chris Schacht LaborSouth Australia19961987–2002
Nick Sherry LaborTasmania19961990–2012
Jim Short LiberalVictoria19931984–1997
Hon. Kerry Sibraa LaborNew South Wales19931975–1978, 1978–1994
Karin Sowada [lower-alpha 7] DemocratNew South Wales19931991–1993
Sid Spindler DemocratVictoria19961990–1996
Grant Tambling CLPNorthern Territory1993, 1996 [lower-alpha 4]1987–2001
Hon. Michael Tate LaborTasmania19931977–1993
Baden Teague LiberalSouth Australia19961977–1996
John Tierney [lower-alpha 1] LiberalNew South Wales19931991–2005
Jo Vallentine [lower-alpha 3] WA GreensWestern Australia19961984–1992
Amanda Vanstone LiberalSouth Australia19931984–2007
Hon. Peter Walsh LaborWestern Australia19931974–1993
Shirley Walters LiberalTasmania19931975–1993
John Watson LiberalTasmania19961978–2008
Sue West LaborNew South Wales19961987, 1990–2002
Olive Zakharov LaborVictoria19931983–1995

Notes
  1. New South Wales Liberal Senator Dr Peter Baume resigned on 28 January 1991. John Tierney was appointed as his replacement on the same day.
  2. Victorian Labor Senator John Button resigned on 31 March 1993. Kim Carr was appointed as his replacement on 28 April.
  3. Western Australian Green Senator Jo Vallentine resigned on 31 January 1992. Christabel Chamarette was appointed as her replacement on 12 March.
  4. The term of a territory senator ends at the dissolution of the House of Representatives, which was March 1993.
  5. Father of the Senate
  6. South Australian Liberal Senator John Olsen resigned on 4 May 1992. Alan Ferguson was appointed as his replacement on 26 May.
  7. New South Wales Democrat Senator Paul McLean resigned on 23 August 1991. Karin Sowada was appointed as his replacement on 29 August.
  8. Victorian Senator Janet Powell resigned from the Australian Democrats on 31 July 1992. She served out the remainder of her term as an independent.

References
  1. "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1990". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 27 March 2017.
  2. Joint Select Committee on Electoral Reform (13 September 1983). "First report - electoral reform" (PDF). Parliament of Australia. pp. 66–7.
  3. Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 (Cth) s 282 Re-count of Senate votes to determine order of election in other circumstances.
  4. The President of the Senate votes and if the votes are equal, the motion is defeated: Constitution (Cth) s 23 Voting in the Senate.
  5. "Rotation of Senators" (PDF). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard). Commonwealth of Australia: Senate. 17 September 1987. pp. 194–213.
  6. "Division of the Senate following simultaneous general elections". Odgers' Australian Senate Practice (14th ed.). Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
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