Members of the Australian Senate, 1985–1987

Senate composition at 1 July 1985
Government (34)
  Labor (34) – (5 seat minority)

Opposition (33)
  Liberal (27)
  National Party (5)
  Country Liberal (1)

Crossbench (9)
  Democrats (7)
  Nuclear Disarmament Party (1)
  Independent (Harradine) (1)
 
Changes in composition

  1. ↑ Jo Vallentine was elected as a Nuclear Disarmament Party member, but resigned in 1985 and served out the remainder of her term as an independent.

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1985 to 1987. The number of senators was increased from ten to twelve senators for each of the six states of Australia. The representation of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory remained at two senators each. This would give a total of 76 senators in the Senate.

30 state senators were elected at the 1983 double dissolution election and were allocated 6-year terms starting on 1 July 1982 and due to finish on 30 June 1988. The other 30 state senators elected were allocated 3-year terms starting on 1 July 1982 and due to finish on 30 June 1985, and were up for reelection in the 1984 election.

With 30 senators having terms due to finish in 1988, the other 42 state and 4 territory senators were elected at the 1984 election, rather than the normal case of only half of the state senators being elected. Therefore, each state would elect 7 senators instead of previous 5 in this election. With the increase of 12 state senators, some changes were made to the terms of senators elected in this election as per Representation Act 1983:

  • The first two non-sitting state senators to be elected (total 12) were chosen for a term starting immediately (1 December 1984) instead of the usual 1 July 1985. This would immediately increase the number of senators to 76 following the election. Terms were due to end on 30 June 1991 unless the senator(s) was elected last (7th) in the state (see next point).
  • The last (7th) state senators to be elected (total 6) were chosen for a term ending 30 June 1988. This would ensure that exactly half of the state senators (36 in total) would have their terms ending on 30 June 1988.

The changes affected 17 elected state senators, with David Vigor satisfying both criteria. All other state senators were elected as normal and had 6-year terms due to finish on 30 June 1991. The four territory senators elected had terms due to finish at the next dissolution of the House of Representatives as normal. However, the Senate was dissolved on 5 June 1987 for another double dissolution election on 11 July 1987.

Senator Party State Term ending Years in office
Richard Alston  LiberalVictoria19911986–2004
Brian Archer LiberalTasmania19911975–1994
Terry Aulich LaborTasmania1991 1984–1993
Michael Baume LiberalNew South Wales19911985–1996
Peter Baume LiberalNew South Wales19881974–1991
Florence Bjelke-Petersen NationalQueensland19881980–1993
John Black LaborQueensland1991 1984–1990
Nick Bolkus LaborSouth Australia19911981–2005
Ron Boswell NationalQueensland19911983–2014
David Brownhill NationalNew South Wales1991 1984–2000
John Button LaborVictoria19881974–1993
Sir John Carrick LiberalNew South Wales19881970–1987
Fred Chaney LiberalWestern Australia19881974–1990
Bruce Childs LaborNew South Wales19911980–1997
Don Chipp  DemocratsVictoria19881977–1986
John Coates LaborTasmania19911980–1996
Ruth Coleman LaborWestern Australia19881974–1987
Stan Collard NationalQueensland19881975–1987
Mal Colston LaborQueensland19881975–1999
Barney Cooney LaborVictoria1991 1984–2002
Peter Cook LaborWestern Australia19911983–2005
Noel Crichton-Browne LiberalWestern Australia19911980–1996
Rosemary Crowley LaborSouth Australia19911983–2002
Ray Devlin LaborTasmania1991 1984–1990
Peter Durack LiberalWestern Australia19881970–1993
Ron Elstob LaborSouth Australia19881977–1987
Gareth Evans LaborVictoria19881977–1996
Dominic Foreman LaborSouth Australia19881980–1997
George Georges LaborQueensland19881967–1987
Arthur Gietzelt LaborNew South Wales19881970–1989
Patricia Giles LaborWestern Australia19911980–1993
Don Grimes  LaborTasmania19881974–1987
Dame Margaret Guilfoyle LiberalVictoria19881970–1987
Janine Haines DemocratsSouth Australia19881977–1978, 1980–1990
David Hamer LiberalVictoria19911977–1990
Brian Harradine IndependentTasmania19881975–2005
Robert Hill LiberalSouth Australia19881981–2006
Don Jessop LiberalSouth Australia19911970–1991
Gerry Jones LaborQueensland19911980–1996
Bernie Kilgariff Country LiberalNorthern Territory1987 1975–1987
Sue Knowles LiberalWestern Australia1991 1984–2005
Austin Lewis LiberalVictoria19881976–1993
David MacGibbon LiberalQueensland19911977–1999
Michael Macklin DemocratsQueensland1988 1980–1990
Graham Maguire LaborSouth Australia19911983–1993
Colin Mason DemocratsNew South Wales1988 1977–1987
Doug McClelland  LaborNew South Wales19881961–1987
Gordon McIntosh LaborWestern Australia19881974–1987
Jim McKiernan LaborWestern Australia1991 1984–2002
Tony Messner LiberalSouth Australia19881975–1990
Alan Missen  LiberalVictoria19911974–1986
John Morris LaborNew South Wales19911985–1990
Jocelyn Newman  LiberalTasmania19881986–2002
Warwick Parer LiberalQueensland19881984–2000
Janet Powell  DemocratsVictoria19881986–1993
Chris Puplick LiberalNew South Wales1991 1978–1980, 1984–1990
Peter Rae  LiberalTasmania19881967–1986
Robert Ray LaborVictoria19911981–2008
Margaret Reid LiberalAustralian Capital Territory1987 1981–2003
Margaret Reynolds LaborQueensland19911983–1999
Graham Richardson LaborNew South Wales19881983–1994
Ted Robertson LaborNorthern Territory1987 1975–1987
Susan Ryan LaborAustralian Capital Territory1987 1975–1988
Norm Sanders DemocratsTasmania1988 1985–1990
Glen Sheil NationalQueensland1991 1974–1981, 1984–1990
Jim Short LiberalVictoria1991 1984–1997
Kerry Sibraa LaborNew South Wales19911975–1978, 1978–1994
John Siddons Democrats/Unite AustraliaVictoria1988 1980–1983, 1985–1987
Michael Tate LaborTasmania19881977–1993
Baden Teague LiberalSouth Australia19911977–1996
Michael Townley LiberalTasmania19911970–1987
Jo Vallentine NDP/Independent Western Australia1988 1985–1992
Amanda Vanstone LiberalSouth Australia1991 1984–2007
David Vigor Democrats/Unite AustraliaSouth Australia1988 1984–1987
Peter Walsh LaborWestern Australia19881974–1993
Shirley Walters LiberalTasmania19881975–1993
John Watson LiberalTasmania19911978–2008
Sue West  LaborNew South Wales19881987, 1990–2002
Rt. Reg Withers LiberalWestern Australia19911966, 1967–1987
Olive Zakharov LaborVictoria19911983–1995
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