Members of the Australian Senate, 1990–1993

Senate composition at 1 July 1990
Government (32)
  Labor (32) – (7 seat minority)

Opposition (34)
Coalition
  Liberal (28)
  National Party (5)
  Country Liberal (1)

Crossbench (10)
  Democrats (8)
  WA Greens (1)
  Independent (1)
 
Changes in composition

  1. ↑ Janet Powell was elected as an Australian Democrats member, but resigned in July 1992 and served out the remainder of her term as an independent.

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1990 to 1993. Half of the state senators had been allocated a long term following the double dissolution election in 1987 and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1993; the other half of the state senators were elected at the March 1990 election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1996. The territory senators were elected at the March 1990 election and their terms ended at the next federal election, which was March 1993.

The composition of the Senate was affected by the decision in 1987 as to which senators received a long term, with Labor and the Democrats voting to reject the alternate "recount" method that had been unanimously recommended by the Joint Select Committee on Electoral Reform in 1983, and facilitated by the Commonwealth Electoral Act. Thus the Labor government, with only 32 seats, needed 7 additional votes to achieve the majority necessary to pass legislation. Because the Democrats had got 2 additional long vacancies in 1987, in South Australia and New South Wales, the Democrats had a total of 8 seats from 1990 and thus continued to hold the balance of power, even after Janet Powell resigned from the Democrats in 1992.

Senator Party State Term ending Years in office
Richard Alston LiberalVictoria19961986–2004
Brian Archer LiberalTasmania19931975–1994
Terry Aulich LaborTasmania19931984–1993
Michael Baume LiberalNew South Wales19931984–1996
Peter Baume  LiberalNew South Wales19931974–1991
Michael Beahan LaborWestern Australia19961987–1996
Robert Bell DemocratsTasmania19961990–1996
Bronwyn Bishop LiberalNew South Wales19961987–1994
Florence Bjelke-Petersen NationalQueensland19931980–1993
Nick Bolkus LaborSouth Australia19931981–2005
Ron Boswell NationalQueensland19961983–2014
Vicki Bourne DemocratsNew South Wales19961990–2002
David Brownhill NationalNew South Wales19961984–2000
Bryant Burns LaborQueensland19961987–1996
John Button  LaborVictoria19931974–1993
Paul Calvert LiberalTasmania19961987–2007
Ian Campbell LiberalWestern Australia19931990–2007
Kim Carr  LaborVictoria19931993–present
Christabel Chamarette  WA GreensWestern Australia19961992–1996
Grant Chapman LiberalSouth Australia19961987–2008
Bruce Childs LaborNew South Wales19961980–1997
John Coates LaborTasmania19931980–1996
Bob Collins LaborNorthern Territory1993, 1996 1987–1998
Mal Colston LaborQueensland19931975–1999
Peter Cook LaborWestern Australia19931983–2005
Barney Cooney LaborVictoria19961984–2002
John Coulter DemocratsSouth Australia19961987–1995
Winston Crane LiberalWestern Australia19961990–2002
Noel Crichton-Browne LiberalWestern Australia19961980–1996
Rosemary Crowley LaborSouth Australia19961983–2002
John Devereux LaborTasmania19961987–1996
Peter Durack  LiberalWestern Australia19931970–1993
Gareth Evans LaborVictoria19931977–1996
John Faulkner LaborNew South Wales19931989–2015
Alan Ferguson  LiberalSouth Australia19931992–2011
Dominic Foreman LaborSouth Australia19931980–1997
Patricia Giles LaborWestern Australia19931980–1993
Brian Harradine IndependentTasmania19931975–2005
John Herron LiberalQueensland19961990–2002
Robert Hill LiberalSouth Australia19961981–2006
Gerry Jones LaborQueensland19961980–1996
Rod Kemp LiberalVictoria19961990–2008
Cheryl Kernot DemocratsQueensland19961990–1997
Sue Knowles LiberalWestern Australia19931984–2005
Meg Lees DemocratsSouth Australia19931990–2005
Austin Lewis LiberalVictoria19931976–1993
Stephen Loosley LaborNew South Wales19961990–1995
Ian Macdonald LiberalQueensland19961990–2019
David MacGibbon LiberalQueensland19931977–1999
Graham Maguire LaborSouth Australia19931983–1993
Jim McKiernan LaborWestern Australia19961984–2002
Paul McLean  DemocratsNew South Wales19931987–1991
Bob McMullan LaborAustralian Capital Territory1993, 1996 1988–1996
Jocelyn Newman LiberalTasmania19961986–2002
Bill O'Chee NationalQueensland19931990–1999
John Olsen  LiberalSouth Australia19931990–1992
John Panizza LiberalWestern Australia19961987–1997
Warwick Parer LiberalQueensland19931984–2000
Kay Patterson LiberalVictoria19961987–2008
Janet Powell Democrats/Ind Victoria19931986–1993
Robert Ray LaborVictoria19961981–2008
Margaret Reid LiberalAustralian Capital Territory1993, 1996 1981–2003
Margaret Reynolds LaborQueensland19931983–1999
Graham Richardson LaborNew South Wales19931983–1994
Chris Schacht LaborSouth Australia19961987–2002
Nick Sherry LaborTasmania19961990–2012
Jim Short LiberalVictoria19931984–1997
Kerry Sibraa LaborNew South Wales19931975–1978, 1978–1994
Karin Sowada  DemocratsNew South Wales19931991–1993
Sid Spindler DemocratsVictoria19961990–1996
Grant Tambling Country LiberalNorthern Territory1993, 1996 1987–2001
Michael Tate LaborTasmania19931977–1993
Baden Teague LiberalSouth Australia19961977–1996
John Tierney  LiberalNew South Wales19931991–2005
Jo Vallentine  WA GreensWestern Australia19961984–1992
Amanda Vanstone LiberalSouth Australia19931984–2007
Peter Walsh LaborWestern Australia19931974–1993
Shirley Walters LiberalTasmania19931975–1993
John Watson LiberalTasmania19961978–2008
Sue West LaborNew South Wales19961987, 1990–2002
Olive Zakharov LaborVictoria19931983–1995
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