Kay Christine Lesley Patterson is a former Australian politician. She was a Liberal member of the Australian Senate from 1987 to 2008,representing the state of Victoria.
Jacinta Mary Ann Collins is a former Australian politician who served as a Senator for Victoria from 1995 to 2005 and again from 2008 to 2019. She represented the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and was the party's deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2013. Collins was a parliamentary secretary in the Gillard government and Minister for Mental Health and Ageing in the second Rudd government. She retired from politics prior to the 2019 federal election and accepted an appointment as national executive director of the National Catholic Education Commission on 18 February 2019.
Robert Francis Ray is an Australian former politician who was a Labor Party senator from 1981 to 2008,representing the state of Victoria.
The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) is a joint committee of the Parliament of Australia which oversees Australia's primary agencies of the Australian Intelligence Community:Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO),the Australian Secret Intelligence Service (ASIS),the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD),the Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO),the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (DIGO),and the Office of National Assessments (ONA).
David Ian Feeney is a former Australian politician. He was the Labor member for the division of Batman in the House of Representatives from 7 September 2013 to 1 February 2018. Before that,he was a member of the Australian Senate for Victoria from 2008 until his resignation to contest Batman. Feeney resigned as a member of Parliament on 1 February 2018 as he was unable to produce any documentary evidence disproving he was a dual citizen,which is a breach of section 44 of the Constitution of Australia.
Richard Luigi Di Natale is a former Australian politician who was a senator for Victoria. He was also the leader of the Australian Greens from 2015 to 2020. Di Natale was elected to the Senate in the 2010 federal election. A former general practitioner,Di Natale became federal parliamentary leader of the Australian Greens on 6 May 2015 following the resignation of Christine Milne. He was the leader of the Greens during the 2016 and 2019 federal elections.
Simon John Birmingham is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 2007. A member of the Liberal Party,he served in the Morrison government as Minister for Finance from 2020 to 2022 and as Minister for Trade,Tourism and Investment from 2018 to 2020. He previously served as Minister for Education and Training in the Turnbull government from 2015 to 2018,and as a parliamentary secretary and assistant minister in the Abbott government.
Will Fowles is an Australian politician. He has been a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since November 2018,initially representing the seat of Burwood in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. Ahead of the 2022 Victorian state election,the seat of Burwood was abolished by Victoria's Electoral Boundaries Commission,leading Fowles to stand for the seat of Ringwood,where he resides with his family.
Deborah Mary O'Neill is an Australian politician who has served as a Senator for New South Wales with the Australian Labor Party since 2013. Before entering politics O'Neill was a school teacher and university academic. In her Senate role,she has been described as taking "a fierce approach to accountability." In June 2023,O'Neill was appointed to chair the newly formed Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services. In this role,the committee has largely focused on failures of governance and public accountability amongst the large consulting firms Deloitte,EY,KPMG and PwC.
Steve Dimopoulos is an Australian politician. He has been a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly since 2014 representing the electoral district of Oakleigh. He served as the Minister for Tourism,Sport and Major Events and the Minister for Creative Industries in the Second Andrews Ministry from June 2022 to September 2023. He continued as Minister for Tourism,Sport and Major Events,Minister for the Environment,and Minister for Outdoor Recreation in the Allan Ministry.
Daniel Mulino is an Australian politician. He was a Labor member of the Victorian Legislative Council,representing the Eastern Victoria Region from 2014 to 2018. In the 2019 federal election he was elected as the inaugural Member for the Division of Fraser.
Christopher John Crewther is an Australian politician. He was a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian House of Representatives from 2016 to 2019 before being elected to the Victorian State Parliament,representing the division of Mornington in 2022.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2016 Australian federal election held on 2 July 2016. The election was held as a consequence of a double dissolution in which both houses of parliament were dissolved. Ordinarily,only half of the senators terms end at each election. In this case,all 76 senators were elected. At the first sitting following the election,half of the senators representing each of the six states of Australia were allocated six-year terms to end on 30 June 2022,with the remainder allocated three-year terms to end on 30 June 2019. The terms of senators from the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory end on the day of the next federal election.
Dustin Raffaele Halse is a former Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly from November 2018 to November 2022,representing the seat of Ringwood. On 24 November 2021,Halse shared publicly that he would not be recontesting his seat in the 2022 Victorian state election.
Jessica Cecille Walsh is an Australian politician and trade unionist. She is a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and has served as a Senator for Victoria since 2019. Prior to her election to parliament she was the state secretary of United Voice.
David Allan Van is an Australian politician. He was elected as a member of the Liberal Party and was sworn in as a federal senator representing the state of Victoria on 1 July 2019.
Matthew Anthony O'Sullivan is an Australian politician. He has been a Liberal Party of Australia member of the Australian Senate since 2019.
The next Australian federal election will be held on or before 17 May 2025 to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia. All 151 seats in the House of Representatives and likely 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate will be contested. It is expected that at this election,the Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be seeking re-election to a second term in office,opposed by the Liberal/National Coalition under Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton.
The 47th Parliament of Australia is the current meeting of the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Australia,composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. The May 2022 federal election gave the Australian Labor Party control of the House. Labor won 77 seats at the election,and it gained an additional seat in April 2023 due to winning the Aston by-election,giving it a three-seat majority government. Labor leader Anthony Albanese became the 31st Prime Minister of Australia,and was sworn in by the Governor-General David Hurley on 23 May 2022. The 47th Parliament opened in Canberra on 26 July 2022.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2022 Australian federal election held on 21 May 2022. Terms for newly elected senators representing the Australian states begin on 1 July 2022. Terms for senators in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory began on the day of the election,21 May 2022.
