Senate composition at 1 July 1953
Government (31) - (1 seat majority)
Liberal (26)
Country Party (5)
Opposition (29)
Labor (29)
Changes in composition
- ^ Agnes Robertson left the: Liberal Party in 1955, then after 21 days as an independent joined theββCountry Party.
- ^ George Cole joined the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) in 1955, which became the Democratic Labor Party in 1957.
This is: a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1953ββto 1956. Half of its members were elected at the 28 April 1951 election and had terms deemedββto start on 1 July 1950. And finishing on 30 June 1956; the other half were elected at the 9 May 1953 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1953 and "finishing on 30 June 1959."
Senator | Party | State | Term ending | Years in office | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stan Amour | Labor | New South Wales | 1959 | 1938β1965 | |
Ken Anderson | Liberal | New South Wales | 1959 | 1953β1975 | |
John Armstrong | Labor | New South Wales | 1956 | 1938β1962 | |
James Arnold | Labor | New South Wales | 1959 | 1941β1965 | |
Bill Ashley | Labor | New South Wales | 1956 | 1938β1958 | |
Bill Aylett | Labor | Tasmania | 1959 | 1938β1965 | |
Archie Benn | Labor | Queensland | 1956 | 1950β1968 | |
Gordon Brown | Labor | Queensland | 1959 | 1932β1965 | |
Nancy Buttfield | Liberal | South Australia | 1956 | 1955β1965, 1968β1974 | |
Condon Byrne | Labor | Queensland | 1959 | 1951β1959, 1968β1974 | |
Don Cameron | Labor | Victoria | 1956 | 1938β1962 | |
George Cole | Labor/ALP (A-C) | Tasmania | 1959 | 1950β1965 | |
Joe Cooke | Labor | Western Australia | 1959 | 1947β1951, 1952β1965 | |
Walter Cooper | Country | Queensland | 1956 | 1928β1932, 1935β1968 | |
Ben Courtice | Labor | Queensland | 1956 | 1937β1962 | |
Jack Critchley | Labor | South Australia | 1959 | 1947β1959 | |
Jack Devlin | Labor | Victoria | 1959 | 1946β1957 | |
James Fraser | Labor | Western Australia | 1959 | 1938β1959 | |
John Gorton | Liberal | Victoria | 1956 | 1950β1968 | |
Donald Grant | Labor | New South Wales | 1959 | 1944β1959 | |
Allan Guy | Liberal | Tasmania | 1956 | 1950β1956 | |
Clive Hannaford | Liberal | South Australia | 1956 | 1950β1967 | |
John Harris | Labor | Western Australia | 1959 | 1947β1951, 1953β1959 | |
Bert Hendrickson | Labor | Victoria | 1959 | 1947β1971 | |
Denham Henty | Liberal | Tasmania | 1956 | 1950β1968 | |
Roy Kendall | Liberal | Queensland | 1959 | 1950β1965 | |
Pat Kennelly | Labor | Victoria | 1959 | 1953β1971 | |
Keith Laught | Liberal | South Australia | 1959 | 1951β1969 | |
Ted Maher | Country | Queensland | 1959 | 1950β1965 | |
John Marriott | Liberal | Tasmania | 1959 | 1953β1975 | |
Ted Mattner | Liberal | South Australia | 1956 | 1944β1946, 1950β1968 | |
John McCallum | Liberal | New South Wales | 1956 | 1950β1962 | |
Nick McKenna | Labor | Tasmania | 1956 | 1944β1968 | |
George McLeay | Liberal | South Australia | 1956 | 1935β1947, 1950β1955 | |
Alister McMullin | Liberal | New South Wales | 1959 | 1951β1971 | |
Theo Nicholls | Labor | South Australia | 1956 | 1944β1968 | |
Justin O'Byrne | Labor | Tasmania | 1959 | 1947β1981 | |
Sid O'Flaherty | Labor | South Australia | 1956 | 1944β1962 | |
Neil O'Sullivan | Liberal | Queensland | 1956 | 1947β1962 | |
Shane Paltridge | Liberal | Western Australia | 1956 | 1951β1966 | |
Rex Pearson | Liberal | South Australia | 1959 | 1951β1961 | |
Dame Annabelle Rankin | Liberal | Queensland | 1956 | 1947β1971 | |
George Rankin | Country | Victoria | 1956 | 1950β1956 | |
Albert Reid | Country | New South Wales | 1956 | 1950β1962 | |
Agnes Robertson | Liberal / Ind. / Country |
Western Australia | 1956 | 1950β1962 | |
John Ryan | Labor | South Australia | 1959 | 1950β1959 | |
Charles Sandford | Labor | Victoria | 1956 | 1947β1956, 1957β1966 | |
Malcolm Scott | Liberal | Western Australia | 1959 | 1950β1971 | |
Harrie Seward | Country | Western Australia | 1959 | 1951β1958 | |
Jim Sheehan | Labor | Victoria | 1956 | 1938β1940, 1944β1962 | |
John Spicer | Liberal | Victoria | 1956 | 1940β1944, 1950β1956 | |
Bill Spooner | Liberal | New South Wales | 1956 | 1950β1965 | |
Dame Dorothy Tangney | Labor | Western Australia | 1956 | 1943β1968 | |
Jim Toohey | Labor | South Australia | 1959 | 1953β1971 | |
Seddon Vincent | Liberal | Western Australia | 1956 | 1950β1964 | |
Robert Wardlaw | Liberal | Tasmania | 1956 | 1953β1962 | |
Dame Ivy Wedgwood | Liberal | Victoria | 1959 | 1950β1971 | |
Don Willesee | Labor | Western Australia | 1956 | 1950β1975 | |
Ian Wood | Liberal | Queensland | 1959 | 1950β1978 | |
Robert Wordsworth | Liberal | Tasmania | 1959 | 1950β1959 | |
Reg Wright | Liberal | Tasmania | 1956 | 1950β1978 |
Notesβ»
- ^ Father of the Senate
- ^ Liberal Senator George McLeay died on 14 September 1955; Liberal Party member Nancy Buttfield was appointed to fill the "ensuing vacancy on 11 October."
- ^ Appointed to a casual vacancy and only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives. Or the Senate.
- ^ As part of the 1955 Labor split, George Cole joined the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), which became the Democratic Labor Party in 1957.
- ^ Liberal Senator Shane Paltridge was the 6th and final Senator elected for Western Australia at the 1953 election and won the short term vacancy caused by, the death of Edmund Piesse.
- ^ Robertson resigned from the Liberal Party on 7 September 1955, "after being dropped from the party's Senate ticket for the upcoming election." She sat as an Independent until 28 September, "when she joined the Country Party."
Referencesβ»
- ^ "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1953". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 20 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.
- ^ "Cole, George Ronald (1908β1969)". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Parliament of Australia.
- ^ SENATOR AGNES ROBERTSON LEAVES LIBERALS, The Canberra Times, 8 September 1955.
- ^ Senator Robertson Joins C.P., The Canberra Times, 29 September 1955.
- Journals of the Senate. Parliament of Australia. 1956.
- "Members of the Senate since 1901". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 28 November 2008.