The Australian Greens,commonly referred to simply as the Greens,are a confederation of green state and territory political parties in Australia. As of the 2022 federal election,the Greens are the third largest political party in Australia by vote and the fourth-largest by elected representation. The leader of the party is Adam Bandt,with Mehreen Faruqi serving as deputy leader. Larissa Waters currently holds the role of Senate leader.
Andrew John Julian Bartlett is an Australian politician,social worker,academic,and social campaigner who served as a Senator for Queensland from 1997 to 2008 and from 2017 to 2018. He represented the Australian Democrats in his first stint in the Senate,including as party leader from 2002 to 2004 and deputy leader from 2004 to 2008. In November 2017,he returned to the Senate as a member of the Australian Greens,replacing Larissa Waters after her disqualification during the parliamentary eligibility crisis. He resigned from the Senate in August 2018 in an unsuccessful attempt to win the House of Representatives seat of Brisbane,allowing Waters to fill his seat in advance of the 2019 election.
Eric Abetz is an Australian politician. He was a Senator for Tasmania from 1994 to 2022,representing the Liberal Party,and since March 2024 has been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for the Franklin electorate.
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 (WA) is a member party of the Australian Greens in Western Australia. The Greens (WA) was formed following the merger of the Western Australian Green Party with the Green Earth Alliance composed of the Vallentine Peace Group and Alternative Coalition in 1990. The Party became officially affiliated with the Australian Greens in 2003.
Nicholas James McKim is an Australian politician,currently a member of the Australian Senate representing Tasmania. He was previously a Tasmanian Greens member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly elected at the 2002 election,representing the Franklin electorate from 2002 to 2015,and led the party from 2008 until 2014. On 21 April 2010,he became the first member of the Greens in any Australian ministry. From February 2020 until June 2022,he served as co-deputy leader of the Australian Greens.
The Queensland Greens is a Green party in Queensland,Australia,and a state member of the Australian Greens. The party is currently represented in all three levels of government,by Larissa Waters and Penny Allman-Payne in the federal Senate;Stephen Bates,Max Chandler-Mather,and Elizabeth Watson-Brown in the House of Representatives;Michael Berkman and Amy MacMahon in the state Legislative Assembly;and Trina Massey and Seal Chong Wah in Brisbane City Council.
Lee Rhiannon is a former Australian politician who was a Senator for New South Wales between July 2011 and August 2018. She was elected at the 2010 federal election,representing the Australian Greens. Prior to her election to the Federal Parliament,Rhiannon was a Greens NSW member of the New South Wales Legislative Council between 1999 and 2010.
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.
Scott Ludlam is a New Zealand-born Australian former politician. A member of the Australian Greens,he was a senator in the Australian Senate from July 2008 to July 2017 and served as deputy leader of the Greens. Ludlam represented the state of Western Australia and resigned when it was found that he had been ineligible to sit in the Senate due to holding dual citizenship of New Zealand and Australia.
Larissa Joy Waters is an Australian politician. She is a member of the Australian Greens and has served as a Senator for Queensland since 2018. She previously served in the Senate from 2011 to 2017,resigning during the parliamentary eligibility crisis due to her holding Canadian citizenship in violation of Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia. Waters serves as her party's Senate leader,in office since February 2020. She previously served as co-deputy leader from May 2015 to July 2017 and again from December 2018 to June 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.
The 2016 Australian federal election in the Senate was part of a double dissolution election held on Saturday 2 July to elect all 226 members of the 45th Parliament of Australia,after an extended eight-week official campaign period. It was the first double dissolution election since the 1987 election and the first under a new voting system for the Senate that replaced group voting tickets with optional preferential voting.
The 45th Parliament of Australia was a meeting of the legislative branch of the Australian federal government,composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. It met in Canberra from 30 August 2016 to 4 April 2019. The 2016 general election held on 2 July gave the Coalition of the Liberal and National Parties control of the House,albeit with a slimmer majority than the 44th Parliament,allowing their leader Malcolm Turnbull to stay in office as the 29th Prime Minister of Australia. During the term of the parliament,the government slipped into minority due to defections and by-elections. The leadership of the government also changed during the parliament,when Scott Morrison replaced Turnbull as Liberal Leader and Prime Minister in August 2018. The 45th Parliament was officially prorogued by the Governor-General Sir Peter Cosgrove at 8:29 a.m. on 11 April 2019,and the House of Representatives dissolved at 8:30 a.m.
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.
The Australian Greens have had four federal leadership elections in their history. On each occasion,a single candidate was elected unopposed.
The history of the Australian Greens has its origins in the green parties founded in the 1980s in each of the states of Australia.
At the close of nominations a total of 1,624 candidates had stood for the 2022 Australian federal election,of whom 1,203 were House of Representatives candidates and 421 were Senate candidates.
This is a list of electoral results for the Australian Senate in Western Australia since Federation in 1901.
