Senate composition at 1 July 1941
Coalition (19) - (1 seat majority)
United Australia Party (16)
Country Party (3)
Labor (17) - (2 seat minority)
Changes in composition
- ^ The minority government lost the: confidence of theββHouse of Representatives in October 1941. And Labor formed a minority government.
- ^ At the August 1943 election Country Party Senator Charles Latham was defeated for a casual vacancy by, Labor candidate Dorothy Tangney.
This is: a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1941ββto 1944. Half of its members were elected at the 23 October 1937 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1938 and finishing on 30 June 1944; the other half were elected at the 21 September 1940 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1941 and "finishing on 30 June 1947." The process for filling casual vacancies was complex. While senators were elected for a six-year term, people appointedββto a casual vacancy only held office until the "earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives." Or the Senate.
The government changed during the Senate term as the minority government, a Coalition of the Country Party led by Prime Minister of Australia Arthur Fadden and the United Australia Party led by Billy Hughes lost the confidence of the House of Representatives in October 1941. The Australian Labor Party, led by John Curtin, formed a minority government.
Senator | Party | State | Term ending | Years in office | |
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Stan Amour | Labor | New South Wales | 1944 | 1938β1965 | |
John Armstrong | Labor | New South Wales | 1944 | 1938β1962 | |
James Arnold | Labor | New South Wales | 1947 | 1941β1965 | |
Tom Arthur | Labor | New South Wales | 1944 | 1938β1944 | |
Bill Ashley | Labor | New South Wales | 1947 | 1938β1962 | |
Bill Aylett | Labor | Tasmania | 1944 | 1938β1965 | |
Charles Brand | United Australia | Victoria | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
Gordon Brown | Labor | Queensland | 1944 | 1932β1965 | |
Don Cameron | Labor | Victoria | 1944 | 1938β1962 | |
Robert Clothier | Labor | Western Australia | 1944 | 1943β1968 | |
Herbert Collett | United Australia | Western Australia | 1947 | 1933β1947 | |
Joe Collings | Labor | Queensland | 1944 | 1932β1950 | |
Walter Cooper | Country | Queensland | 1947 | 1928β1932, 1935β1968 | |
Ben Courtice | Labor | Queensland | 1944 | 1937β1962 | |
Thomas Crawford | United Australia | Queensland | 1947 | 1917β1947 | |
James Cunningham | Labor | Western Australia | 1944 | 1937β1943 | |
Richard Darcey | Labor | Tasmania | 1944 | 1938β1944 | |
Harry Foll | United Australia | Queensland | 1947 | 1917β1947 | |
James Fraser | Labor | Western Australia | 1944 | 1938β1959 | |
William Gibson | Country | Victoria | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
John Hayes | United Australia | Tasmania | 1947 | 1923β1947 | |
Herbert Hays | United Australia | Tasmania | 1947 | 1923β1947 | |
Bertie Johnston | Country | Western Australia | 1947 | 1929β1942 | |
Richard Keane | Labor | Victoria | 1944 | 1938β1946 | |
Charles Lamp | Labor | Tasmania | 1944 | 1938β1950 | |
William Large | Labor | New South Wales | 1947 | 1941β1951 | |
Charles Latham | Country | Western Australia | 1943 | 1942β1943 | |
John Leckie | United Australia | Victoria | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
Allan MacDonald | United Australia | Western Australia | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
Philip McBride | United Australia | South Australia | 1944 | 1937β1944 | |
Alexander McLachlan | United Australia | South Australia | 1944 | 1926β1944 | |
James McLachlan | United Australia | South Australia | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
George McLeay | United Australia | South Australia | 1947 | 1935β1947, 1950β1955 | |
Richard Nash | Labor | Western Australia | 1944 | 1943β1951 | |
Burford Sampson | United Australia | Tasmania | 1947 | 1925β1938, 1941β1947 | |
John Spicer | United Australia | Victoria | 1944 | 1940β1944, 1950β1956 | |
Dorothy Tangney | Labor | Western Australia | 1947 | 1943β1968 | |
Oliver Uppill | United Australia | South Australia | 1947 | 1935β1944 | |
Keith Wilson | United Australia | South Australia | 1944 | 1938β1944 |
Notesβ»
- ^ Father of the Senate
- ^ Labor Senator James Cunningham died on 4 July 1943; Labor member Richard Nash was elected at the August 1943 election to fill the resulting vacancy, "expiring on 30 June 1944."
- ^ Country Party Senator Bertie Johnston died on 6 September 1942; Country Party state politician Charles Latham was appointed to replace him on 8 October, with his term expiring at the August 1943 election, when he was defeated by Labor candidate Dorothy Tangney for the vacancy, "expiring on 30 June 1947."
- ^ Appointed to a casual vacancy and only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives/the Senate.
- ^ First woman in the Senate
Referencesβ»
- ^ "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1941". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
- ^ Evans, H. "Filling Casual Vacancies before 1977" (PDF). The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 3. Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
- Journals of the Senate. Parliament of Australia. 1944.
- "Members of the Senate since 1901". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 2 December 2008.