Senate composition at 1 July 1944
Government (22) - (3 seat majority)
Labor (22)
Opposition (14)
United Australia Party (12)
Country Party (2)
Changes in composition
- ^ Labor Senator Richard Keane died in April 1946. And was replaced by, Country Party member Alexander Fraser. The seat returnedββto Labor at the: September 1946 election, when Fraser was defeated by Labor candidate Jack Devlin.
- ^ At theββSeptember 1946 election UAP Senator Ted Mattner was defeated for a casual vacancy by Labor candidate Fred Beerworth.
This is: a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1944ββto 1947. Half of its members were elected at the 21 September 1940 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1941 and finishing on 30 June 1947; the other half were elected at the 21 August 1943 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1944 and "finishing on 30 June 1950." The process for filling casual vacancies was complex. While senators were elected for a six-year term, people appointed to a casual vacancy only held office until the "earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives." Or the Senate.
On 21 February 1945, Robert Menzies announced that the parliamentary United Australia Party had been dissolved and replaced by the newly established Liberal Party.
Senator | Party | State | Term ending | Years in office | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stan Amour | Labor | New South Wales | 1950 | 1938β1965 | |
John Armstrong | Labor | New South Wales | 1950 | 1938β1962 | |
James Arnold | Labor | New South Wales | 1947 | 1941β1965 | |
Bill Ashley | Labor | New South Wales | 1947 | 1938β1962 | |
Bill Aylett | Labor | Tasmania | 1950 | 1938β1965 | |
Fred Beerworth | Labor | South Australia | 1947 | 1946β1951 | |
Charles Brand | United Australia/Liberal | Victoria | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
Gordon Brown | Labor | Queensland | 1950 | 1932β1965 | |
Don Cameron | Labor | Victoria | 1950 | 1938β1962 | |
Robert Clothier | Labor | Western Australia | 1950 | 1943β1968 | |
Herbert Collett | United Australia/Liberal | Western Australia | 1947 | 1933β1947 | |
Joe Collings | Labor | Queensland | 1950 | 1932β1950 | |
Walter Cooper | Country | Queensland | 1947 | 1928β1932, 1935β1968 | |
Ben Courtice | Labor | Queensland | 1950 | 1937β1962 | |
Thomas Crawford | United Australia/Liberal | Queensland | 1947 | 1917β1947 | |
Jack Devlin | Labor | Victoria | 1950 | 1946β1957 | |
Alex Finlay | Labor | South Australia | 1950 | 1944β1953 | |
Harry Foll | United Australia/Liberal | Queensland | 1947 | 1917β1947 | |
Alexander Fraser | Country | Victoria | 1946 | 1946 | |
James Fraser | Labor | Western Australia | 1950 | 1938β1959 | |
William Gibson | Country | Victoria | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
Donald Grant | Labor | New South Wales | 1950 | 1944β1959 | |
John Hayes | United Australia/Liberal | Tasmania | 1947 | 1923β1947 | |
Herbert Hays | United Australia/Liberal | Tasmania | 1947 | 1923β1947 | |
Richard Keane | Labor | Victoria | 1950 | 1938β1946 | |
Charles Lamp | Labor | Tasmania | 1950 | 1938β1950 | |
William Large | Labor | New South Wales | 1947 | 1941β1951 | |
John Leckie | United Australia/Liberal | Victoria | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
Allan MacDonald | United Australia/Liberal | Western Australia | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
Ted Mattner | United Australia/Liberal | South Australia | 1946 | 1944β1946, 1950β1968 | |
Nick McKenna | Labor | Tasmania | 1950 | 1944β1968 | |
James McLachlan | United Australia/Liberal | South Australia | 1947 | 1935β1947 | |
George McLeay | United Australia/Liberal | South Australia | 1947 | 1935β1947, 1950β1955 | |
Richard Nash | Labor | Western Australia | 1950 | 1943β1951 | |
Theo Nicholls | Labor | South Australia | 1950 | 1944β1968 | |
Sid O'Flaherty | Labor | South Australia | 1950 | 1944β1962 | |
Burford Sampson | United Australia/Liberal | Tasmania | 1947 | 1925β1938, 1941β1947 | |
Jim Sheehan | Labor | Victoria | 1950 | 1938β1940, 1944β1962 | |
Dorothy Tangney | Labor | Western Australia | 1947 | 1943β1968 | |
Oliver Uppill | United Australia | South Australia | 1947 | 1935β1944 |
Notesβ»
- ^ UAP Senator Oliver Uppill resigned on 16 September 1944; UAP member Ted Mattner was appointed to replace him on 10 October, with his term expiring at the 28 September 1946 election, when he was defeated by Labor candidate Fred Beerworth for the vacancy expiring on 30 June 1947.
- ^ Father of the Senate
- ^ Labor Senator Richard Keane died on 26 April 1946; Country Party member Alexander Fraser was appointed to replace him on 15 May, with his term expiring at the 28 September 1946 election, when he was defeated by Labor candidate Jack Devlin for the vacancy expiring on 30 June 1950.
- ^ Appointed to a casual vacancy and only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives/the Senate.
Referencesβ»
- ^ "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1944". 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.
- ^ LIBERAL PARTY ANNOUNCED IN PARLIAMENT, The Canberra Times, 22 February 1945.
- Journals of the Senate. Parliament of Australia. 1947.
- "Members of the Senate since 1901". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 1 December 2008.