Senate composition at 1 July 1929
Coalition (28) - (10 seat majority)
Nationalist (24)
Country Party (4)
Labor (8) - (10 seat minority)
Changes in composition
- ^ The Coalition government was defeated by, Labor at the: October 1929 House of Representatives election
- ^ In May 1931 theββNationalist party merged with pro-Joseph Lyons Labor defectorsββto form the United Australia Party.
- ^ UAP Senator Walter Duncan resigned on 1 December 1931. And was replaced by Lang Labor member Patrick Mooney.
- ^ In 1931 2 NSW Senators walked out of the Labor partyββto join Lang Labor
This is: a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1929 to 1932. Half of its members were elected at the 14 November 1925 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1926 and finishing on 30 June 1932; the other half were elected at the 17 November 1928 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1929 and "finishing on 30 June 1935." 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.
The government changed during the Senate term as the Coalition of the Nationalist Party led by Prime Minister of Australia Stanley Bruce and the Country Party led by Earle Page lost the confidence of the House of Representatives and called an election for October 1929. The Labor Party, led by James Scullin, won the election with a large majority. This was the first time in which an election for the House of Representatives was held without an election for the Senate. Section 13 of the Constitution requires an election to occur within one year of the expiry of senate terms and the terms of senators elected in 1925 were not due to expire until 1932.
In 1931 five Labor members in the House of Representatives split from the Scullin government in opposition to its economic policies on the Great Depression and joined the Nationalist Party and three conservative independents in the House to form the United Australia Party (UAP). Subsequently, some New South Wales members and senators were expelled from the Labor Party for their support of New South Wales Premier Jack Lang's policy of repudiating foreign debt and formed the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales)βknown as Lang Laborβand later voted with the UAP to defeat the Scullin government, leading to the 1931 election.
Senator | Party | State | Term ending | Years in office | |
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John Barnes | Labor | Victoria | 1935 | 1913β1920, 1923β1935 | |
Tom Brennan | United Australia | Victoria | 1932 | 1931β1938 | |
William Carroll | Country | Western Australia | 1932 | 1926β1936 | |
John Chapman | Nationalist /United Australia | South Australia | 1932 | 1926β1931 | |
Hal Colebatch | Nationalist /United Australia | Western Australia | 1935 | 1929β1933 | |
Walter Cooper | Country | Queensland | 1932 | 1928β1932, 1935β1968 | |
Charles Cox | Nationalist /United Australia | New South Wales | 1932 | 1920β1938 | |
Thomas Crawford | Nationalist /United Australia | Queensland | 1935 | 1917β1947 | |
John Daly | Labor | South Australia | 1935 | 1928β1935 | |
John Dooley | Labor | New South Wales | 1935 | 1928β1935 | |
Walter Duncan | Nationalist/United Australia | New South Wales | 1932 | 1920β1931 | |
Jack Duncan-Hughes | United Australia | South Australia | 1932 | 1931β38 | |
James Dunn | Labor/Lang Labor | New South Wales | 1935 | 1929β1935 | |
Harold Elliott | Nationalist | Victoria | 1932 | 1920β1931 | |
Robert Elliott | Country | Victoria | 1935 | 1929β1935 | |
Harry Foll | Nationalist /United Australia | Queensland | 1935 | 1917β1947 | |
William Glasgow | Nationalist /United Australia | Queensland | 1932 | 1920β1932 | |
Charles Grant | United Australia | Tasmania | 1934 | 1925, 1932β1941 | |
James Guthrie | Nationalist /United Australia | Victoria | 1932 | 1920β1938 | |
John Hayes | Nationalist /United Australia | Tasmania | 1935 | 1923β1947 | |
Herbert Hays | Nationalist /United Australia | Tasmania | 1935 | 1923β1947 | |
Bert Hoare | Labor | South Australia | 1935 | 1922β1935 | |
Bertie Johnston | Country | Western Australia | 1935 | 1929β1942 | |
Walter Kingsmill | Nationalist /United Australia | Western Australia | 1935 | 1923β1935 | |
Harry Kneebone | Labor | South Australia | 1931 | 1931 | |
Harry Lawson | Nationalist /United Australia | Victoria | 1935 | 1929β1935 | |
Patrick Lynch | Nationalist /United Australia | Western Australia | 1932 | 1907β1938 | |
Walter Massy-Greene | Nationalist /United Australia | New South Wales | 1932 | 1923β1925, 1926β1938 | |
Alexander McLachlan | Nationalist /United Australia | South Australia | 1932 | 1926β1944 | |
John Millen | Nationalist /United Australia | Tasmania | 1932 | 1920β1938 | |
Patrick Mooney | Lang Labor | New South Wales | 1932 | 1931β1932 | |
John Newlands | Nationalist /United Australia | South Australia | 1932 | 1913β1932 | |
James Ogden | United Australia | Tasmania | 1935 | 1923β1932 | |
Mick O'Halloran | Labor | South Australia | 1935 | 1928β1935 | |
Herbert Payne | Nationalist /United Australia | Tasmania | 1932 | 1920β1938 | |
Sir George Pearce | Nationalist /United Australia | Western Australia | 1932 | 1901β1938 | |
William Plain | Nationalist /United Australia | Victoria | 1932 | 1917β1923, 1925β1938 | |
Arthur Rae | Labor/Lang Labor | New South Wales | 1935 | 1910β1914, 1929β1935 | |
Matthew Reid | Nationalist /United Australia | Queensland | 1935 | 1917β1935 | |
Burford Sampson | Nationalist /United Australia | Tasmania | 1932 | 1925β1938, 1941β1947 | |
William Thompson | Nationalist /United Australia | Queensland | 1932 | 1922β1932 |
Notesβ»
- ^ Nationalist Senator Harold Edward Elliott died on 23 March 1931; UAP member Tom Brennan was appointed on 12 May to replace him for the remainder of his term finishing on 30 June 1932.
- ^ Appointed to a casual vacancy and only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives/the Senate.
- ^ Labor Senator John Chapman died on 14 March 1931; Labor member Harry Kneebone was appointed on 1 April to replace him until the 19 December 1931 election when he was defeated by UAP candidate Jack Duncan-Hughes for the remainder of his term finishing on 30 June 1932.
- ^ UAP Senator Walter Duncan resigned on 1 December 1931; Lang Labor member Patrick Mooney was appointed on 23 December to replace him for the remainder of his term finishing on 30 June 1932.
- ^ UAP Senator James Ogden died on 5 February 1932; UAP member and former Senator Charles Grant was appointed on 3 March to replace him with his term expiring at the September 1934 election, when he was re-elected for the balance of the term expiring on 30 June 1935 and a six year term expiring on 30 June 1941.
- ^ Father of the Senate
Referencesβ»
- ^ "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1929". 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.
- ^ Constitution (Cth) s 13 Rotation of senators.
- Journals of the Senate. Parliament of Australia. 1932.
- "Members of the Senate since 1901". Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 5 December 2008.