Members of the Australian Senate, 1987–1990

Senate composition at 14 September 1987
Government (32)
  Labor (32) – (7 seat minority)

Opposition (34)
  Liberal (27)
  National Party (6)
  Country Liberal (1)

Crossbench (10)
  Democrats (7)
  Nuclear Disarmament Party (1)
  Independent (2)
 
Changes in composition

  1. ↑ The election of NDP Senator Robert Wood was void. Irina Dunn was elected in his place but was expelled from the NDP & served out the remainder of her term as an independent.

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1987 to 1990. It consisted of twelve senators for each of the six states of Australia and two senators representing each of the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory. All members were elected at the 1987 election following a double dissolution of both houses of parliament, rather than the normal case of only half of the state senators facing election.

In accordance with section 13 of the Constitution, following a double dissolution of Parliament, the terms for senators commence on 1 July preceding the election – i.e., on 1 July 1987. The Senate decides which senators were allocated the full six-year terms ending on 30 June 1993 and which senators were allocated three-year terms ending on 30 June 1990. In 1983 the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 had been amended to include provision for a recount of ballot papers to determine the senators to get the long term vacancies. This was the result of a unanimous recommendation from the Joint Select Committee on Electoral Reform. Despite the unanimous recommendation for reform, Labor and the Democrats maintained the previous system where the first six senators elected in each state were allocated the full six-year terms ending on 30 June 1993 while the other half were allocated three-year terms ending on 30 June 1990. The effect of this system was that Democrat Senators Paul McLean and Janet Powell got a long term instead of National Senators David Brownhill and Julian McGauran. There was no net effect on Labor and Liberal in that in South Australia, Labor Senator Graham Maguire got a long term instead of Liberal Senator Robert Hill, while in Queensland, Liberal Senator Warwick Parer got a long term instead of Labor Senator Gerry Jones. Senators took their seats immediately following the election on 11 July 1987. The four territory senators were elected in July 1987 and their terms ended at the next federal election, which was March 1990.

Senator Party State Term ending Years in office
Richard Alston LiberalVictoria19901986–2004
Brian Archer LiberalTasmania19931975–1994
Terry Aulich LaborTasmania19931984–1993
Michael Baume LiberalNew South Wales19931984–1996
Peter Baume LiberalNew South Wales19931974–1991
Michael Beahan LaborWestern Australia19901987–1996
Robert Bell  DemocratsTasmania19901990–1996
Bronwyn Bishop LiberalNew South Wales19901987–1994
Florence Bjelke-Petersen NationalQueensland19931980–1993
John Black LaborQueensland19901984–1990
Nick Bolkus LaborSouth Australia19931981–2005
Ron Boswell NationalQueensland19901983–2014
David Brownhill NationalNew South Wales19901984–2000
Bryant Burns LaborQueensland19901987–1996
John Button LaborVictoria19931974–1993
Paul Calvert LiberalTasmania19901987–2007
Ian Campbell  LiberalWestern Australia19931990–2007
Fred Chaney  LiberalWestern Australia19931974–1990
Grant Chapman LiberalSouth Australia19901987–2008
Bruce Childs LaborNew South Wales19901980–1997
John Coates LaborTasmania19931980–1996
Bob Collins LaborNorthern Territory1990 1987–1998
Mal Colston LaborQueensland19931975–1999
Peter Cook LaborWestern Australia19931983–2005
Barney Cooney LaborVictoria19901984–2002
John Coulter DemocratsSouth Australia19901987–1995
Noel Crichton-Browne LiberalWestern Australia19901980–1996
Rosemary Crowley LaborSouth Australia19901983–2002
John Devereux LaborTasmania19901987–1996
Ray Devlin LaborTasmania19901984–1990
Irina Dunn  Nuclear Disarmament/IndependentNew South Wales19901988–1990
Peter Durack  LiberalWestern Australia19931970–1993
Gareth Evans LaborVictoria19931977–1996
John Faulkner  LaborNew South Wales19931989–2015
Dominic Foreman LaborSouth Australia19931980–1997
Arthur Gietzelt  LaborNew South Wales19931970–1989
Patricia Giles LaborWestern Australia19931980–1993
Janine Haines  DemocratsSouth Australia19931977–1978, 1980–1990
David Hamer LiberalVictoria19901977–1990
Brian Harradine IndependentTasmania19931975–2005
Robert Hill LiberalSouth Australia19901981–2006
Jean Jenkins DemocratsWestern Australia19901987–1990
Gerry Jones LaborQueensland19901980–1996
Sue Knowles LiberalWestern Australia19931984–2005
Meg Lees  DemocratsSouth Australia19931990–2005
Austin Lewis LiberalVictoria19931976–1993
David MacGibbon LiberalQueensland19931977–1999
Michael Macklin DemocratsQueensland19901980–1990
Graham Maguire LaborSouth Australia19931983–1993
Julian McGauran NationalVictoria19901987–1990, 1993–2011
Jim McKiernan LaborWestern Australia19901984–2002
Paul McLean DemocratsNew South Wales19931987–1991
Bob McMullan  LaborAustralian Capital Territory1990 1988–1996
Tony Messner  LiberalSouth Australia19931975–1990
John Morris LaborNew South Wales19901984–1990
Jocelyn Newman LiberalTasmania19901986–2002
Bill O'Chee  NationalQueensland19931990–1999
John Olsen  LiberalSouth Australia19931990–1992
John Panizza LiberalWestern Australia19901987–1997
Warwick Parer LiberalQueensland19931984–2000
Kay Patterson LiberalVictoria19901987–2008
Janet Powell DemocratsVictoria19931986–1993
Chris Puplick LiberalNew South Wales19901978–1980, 1984–1990
Robert Ray LaborVictoria19901981–2008
Margaret Reid LiberalAustralian Capital Territory1990 1981–2003
Margaret Reynolds LaborQueensland19931983–1999
Graham Richardson LaborNew South Wales19931983–1994
Susan Ryan  LaborAustralian Capital Territory1990 1975–1988
Norm Sanders  DemocratsTasmania19901984–1990
Chris Schacht LaborSouth Australia19901987–2002
Glen Sheil NationalQueensland19901974–1981, 1984–1990
Jim Short LiberalVictoria19931984–1997
Kerry Sibraa LaborNew South Wales19931975–1978, 1978–1994
John Stone  NationalQueensland19931987–1990
Grant Tambling Country LiberalNorthern Territory1990 1987–2001
Michael Tate LaborTasmania19931977–1993
Baden Teague LiberalSouth Australia19901977–1996
Jo Vallentine IndependentWestern Australia19901984–1992
Amanda Vanstone LiberalSouth Australia19931984–2007
Peter Walsh LaborWestern Australia19931974–1993
Shirley Walters LiberalTasmania19931975–1993
John Watson LiberalTasmania19901978–2008
Robert Wood  Nuclear DisarmamentNew South Wales19901987–1988
Olive Zakharov LaborVictoria19931983–1995
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