Natasha Jessica Stott Despoja AO is an Australian diplomat,advocate,author,and former politician. Starting her career in student politics,she became an advisor to the Australian Democrats and was appointed to the Australian Senate in 1995 at the age of 26. At the time,she was the youngest woman to serve in federal Parliament. She went on to become deputy leader of the Democrats in 1997 and then federal leader from 2001 to 2002. She retired from the Senate in 2008 as the longest-serving senator from her party.
Penelope Ying-Yen Wong is an Australian politician who is serving as the current minister for Foreign Affairs and leader of the Government in the Senate in the Albanese government since 2022. A member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP),she has been a senator for South Australia since 2002. Wong previously served as minister for Climate Change and minister for Finance and Deregulation during the governments of Prime Ministers Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard from 2007 until 2013.
Brian Andrew Greig OAM is a former Australian politician. Grieg was an Australian Democrats member of the Australian Senate from 1999 to 2005,representing the state of Western Australia.
Katherine Ruth Gallagher is an Australian politician who has been serving as the Minister for Finance,Minister for Women,Minister for the Public Service and Vice-President of the Executive Council in the Albanese Government since 2022,and formerly served as the 6th Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory from 2011 to 2014. She has been a Senator for the Australian Capital Territory since the 2019 federal election,as a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). She previously served in the Senate from 2015 to 2018.
Carol Louise Brown,an Australian politician,has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Tasmania since 25 August 2005.
Ruth Stephanie Webber is an Australian politician. She was a Labor member of the Australian Senate from 2002 to 2008,representing the state of Western Australia.
Alice Olive Zakharov was an Australian politician. Zakharov was elected as an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate in 1983.
Penelope Gail Sharpe is an Australian politician. She has served as a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council since 2005,representing the Labor Party. Since March 2023,Sharpe is the Leader of the Government in the Legislative Council and the Vice-President of the Executive Council since Labor's election victory in March 2023,having previously served as leader of the opposition in the Legislative Council between 2021 and 2023.
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.
Ian Keith Hunter is an Australian politician,representing the South Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party in the South Australian Legislative Council since the 2006 state election. Hunter served in the Cabinet of South Australia from October 2011 to 2018.
Jennifer L. Veiga is a former American attorney and politician from Colorado. Veiga is a former Democrat member of Colorado House of Representatives and member of Colorado's 31st Senate district,covering downtown and north-central Denver.
John Joseph Aquilina,an Australian former politician,is a former member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly representing the electorate of Blacktown between 1981 and 1991 and the electorate of Riverstone between 1991 and 2011 for the Labor Party.
Batong Vu Pham is an Australian politician. He was a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Council from November 2007 to May 2009. He was elected on a countback when Louise Pratt resigned to run for the Senate,but was defeated for Labor preselection to run for a full term in the 2008 election.
Lisa Maria Singh is an Australian former politician. She was a Senator for Tasmania from 2011 to 2019. She had previously been a member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly,representing the division of Denison from 2006 to 2010. The granddaughter of an Indo-Fijian member of the Parliament of Fiji,Singh was Australia's first female federal parliamentarian of Indian descent.
Joseph Warrington Bullock is a former Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia from 2013 to 2016,representing the Australian Labor Party.
Lidia Alma Thorpe is an Australian independent politician. She has been a senator for Victoria since 2020 and is the first Aboriginal senator from that state. She was a member of the Australian Greens until February 2023 when she quit the party over disagreements concerning the proposed Indigenous Voice to Parliament. She had also served as the Greens' deputy leader in the Senate from June to October 2022.
Caitlin Mary Collins is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since the 2021 state election,representing Hillarys. Prior to her election,Collins taught politics and history at local High Schools.
The next Australian federal election will be held on or before 27 September 2025 to elect members of the 48th Parliament of Australia. All 150 seats in the House of Representatives and likely 40 of the 76 seats in the Senate will be contested. It is expected that at this election,the Labor government of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will be seeking re-election to a second term in office,opposed by the Liberal/National Coalition under Leader of the Opposition Peter Dutton.
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2022 Australian federal election held on 21 May 2022. Terms for newly elected senators representing the Australian states begin on 1 July 2022. Terms for senators in the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory began on the day of the election,21 May 2022.
