In the Parliament of Australia,a casual vacancy arises when a member of either the Senate or the House of Representatives:
Rachel Mary Siewert is an Australian politician. She was a senator for Western Australia from 2005 to 2021,representing the Australian Greens,and served as the party's co-deputy leader from 2017 to 2018. She previously worked as coordinator of the Conservation Council of Western Australia.
The Greens NSW,also known as the NSW Greens,is a green political party in New South Wales and a member of the Australian Greens. First formed in 1991,the Greens NSW began as a state-level party before joining with other green parties in Australia to create the current federated structure.
Australian Greens SA is a green political party located in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a member of the federation of the Australian Greens party.
Dame Nancy Eileen Buttfield,was an Australian Senator and the first woman to serve in the Australian Parliament as a representative of the state of South Australia.
Penelope Gail Sharpe is an Australian politician. She has served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2005,representing the Labor Party. Since March 2023,Sharpe is the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council and the Vice-President of the Executive Council since Labor's election victory in March 2023,having previously served as leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council between 2021 and 2023.
Mark Charles Parnell is an Australian former politician and parliamentary leader of the SA Greens in the South Australian Legislative Council. He was the first SA Greens representative to be elected to the Parliament of South Australia,at the 2006 election. He was re-elected for another eight-year term in the Legislative Council at the 2014 election. Parnell announced he would retire at the 2022 state election,but resigned from the parliament early to give his successor an "opportunity to make his mark in Parliament ahead of the election".
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.
Sarah Coral Hanson-Young is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since July 2008,representing the Australian Greens. She is the youngest woman to be elected to federal parliament,winning election at the age of 25 and taking office at the age of 26. She was the youngest person ever elected to the Senate,until Jordon Steele-John was elected in 2017.
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.
William Russell was a Scottish-born Australian politician. He was a liberal member of the South Australian Legislative Council from 1895 to 1900 and an Australian Labor Party member of the South Australian House of Assembly (Burra) (1901-1902) and the Australian Senate (1906-1912).
Robert John Bell was an Australian schoolteacher,politician and conservationist. He served as a Senator for Tasmania from 1990 to 1996,representing the Australian Democrats. He was the party's last elected official in Tasmania.
Cate Faehrmann is an Australian politician and environmental activist. Faehrmann was a Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2011 to 2013. She resigned from the Legislative Council in June 2013 to stand for the Senate at the federal election of the same year,and was unsuccessful in obtaining a seat. She worked in the office of the Leader of the Australian Greens,Richard Di Natale,as his chief of staff from May 2015 to March 2018. In August 2018,she was re-elected to the Legislative Council to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Mehreen Faruqi,who had replaced Lee Rhiannon in the Australian Senate.
Penelope Lesley Wright is an Australian activist and former politician who is South Australia's Guardian for Children and Young People in Care.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate between July 2014 and May 2016. Half of the state senators had been elected at the August 2010 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2017;the other half of the state senators were elected at the September 2013 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 2020. The territory senators were elected at the September 2013 election and their terms ended at the dissolution of the House of Representatives,which was May 2016. The new Senate first met in July 2014,with state senators elected in 2013 sworn in on 7 July 2014. Ascertaining the chamber's final composition was complicated by the loss of 1,375 ballot papers in Western Australia,leading to the Court of Disputed Returns voiding the result there,and necessitating a special Senate election in Western Australia.
Andrew Lockhart McLachlan is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since 6 February 2020,representing the Liberal Party of Australia. He was previously a member of the South Australian Legislative Council,having been elected at the 2014 state election,and was subsequently elected President of the South Australian Legislative Council in May 2018. He resigned as president and member of the Legislative Council in February 2020,to take up the vacant seat in the Senate caused by the resignation of Cory Bernardi.
Starting in July 2017,the eligibility of several members of the Parliament of Australia was questioned. Referred to by some as a "constitutional crisis",fifteen sitting politicians were ruled ineligible by the High Court of Australia or resigned pre-emptively. The situation arose from section 44(i) of the Australian Constitution,which prohibits parliamentarians from having allegiance to a foreign power,especially citizenship. On that basis,the High Court had previously held that dual citizens are ineligible for election unless they have taken "reasonable steps" to renounce the foreign citizenship before nomination.
Alexander Charles Antic is an Australian politician who has been a senator for South Australia since 2019 representing the Liberal Party.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2019 Australian federal election held on 18 May 2019. Terms for newly elected senators representing the Australian states began on 1 July 2019. Terms for senators in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory began on the day of the election,18 May 2019.
