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1990

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 dissolution of the House of Representatives, which was March 1990.

Senator Party State End term Years in Office
Richard Alston   Liberal Victoria 1990 1986–2004
Brian Archer   Liberal Tasmania 1993 1975–1994
Terry Aulich   Labor Tasmania 1993 1984–1993
Michael Baume   Liberal New South Wales 1993 1984–1996
Hon. Peter Baume   Liberal New South Wales 1993 1974–1991
Michael Beahan   Labor Western Australia 1990 1987–1996
Robert Bell [a]   Democrat Tasmania 1990 1990–1996
Bronwyn Bishop   Liberal New South Wales 1990 1987–1994
Flo Bjelke-Petersen   National Queensland 1993 1980–1993
John Black   Labor Queensland 1990 1984–1990
Hon. Nick Bolkus   Labor South Australia 1993 1981–2005
Ron Boswell   National Queensland 1990 1983–2014
David Brownhill   National New South Wales 1990 1984–2000
Bryant Burns   Labor Queensland 1990 1987–1996
Hon. John Button   Labor Victoria 1993 1974–1993
Paul Calvert   Liberal Tasmania 1990 1987–2007
Ian Campbell [b]   Liberal Western Australia 1993 1990–2007
Hon. Fred Chaney [b]   Liberal Western Australia 1993 1974–1990
Grant Chapman   Liberal South Australia 1990 1987–2008
Bruce Childs   Labor New South Wales 1990 1980–1997
John Coates   Labor Tasmania 1993 1980–1996
Hon. Bob Collins   Labor Northern Territory 1990 [c] 1987–1998
Mal Colston   Labor Queensland 1993 1975–1999
Hon. Peter Cook   Labor Western Australia 1993 1983–2005
Barney Cooney   Labor Victoria 1990 1984–2002
John Coulter   Democrat South Australia 1990 1987–1995
Noel Crichton-Browne   Liberal Western Australia 1990 1980–1996
Rosemary Crowley   Labor South Australia 1990 1983–2002
John Devereux   Labor Tasmania 1990 1987–1996
Ray Devlin   Labor Tasmania 1990 1984–1990
Irina Dunn [d]   NDP/Independent New South Wales 1990 1988–1990
Hon. Peter Durack [e]   Liberal Western Australia 1993 1970–1993
Hon. Gareth Evans   Labor Victoria 1993 1977–1996
John Faulkner [f]   Labor New South Wales 1993 1989–2015
Dominic Foreman   Labor South Australia 1993 1980–1997
Hon. Arthur Gietzelt [e][f]   Labor New South Wales 1993 1970–1989
Patricia Giles   Labor Western Australia 1993 1980–1993
Janine Haines [g]   Democrat South Australia 1993 1977–1978, 1980–1990
David Hamer   Liberal Victoria 1990 1977–1990
Brian Harradine   Independent Tasmania 1993 1975–2005
Robert Hill   Liberal South Australia 1990 1981–2006
Jean Jenkins   Democrat Western Australia 1990 1987–1990
Gerry Jones   Labor Queensland 1990 1980–1996
Susan Knowles   Liberal Western Australia 1993 1984–2005
Meg Lees [g]   Democrat South Australia 1993 1990–2005
Austin Lewis   Liberal Victoria 1993 1976–1993
Julian McGauran   National Victoria 1990 1987–1990, 1993–2011
David MacGibbon   Liberal Queensland 1993 1977–1999
Jim McKiernan   Labor Western Australia 1990 1984–2002
Paul McLean   Democrat New South Wales 1993 1987–1991
Michael Macklin   Democrat Queensland 1990 1980–1990
Bob McMullan [h]   Labor Australian Capital Territory 1990 [c] 1988–1996
Graham Maguire   Labor South Australia 1993 1983–1993
Hon. Tony Messner [i]   Liberal South Australia 1993 1975–1990
John Morris   Labor New South Wales 1990 1984–1990
Jocelyn Newman   Liberal Tasmania 1990 1986–2002
Bill O'Chee [j]   National Queensland 1993 1990–1999
John Olsen [i]   Liberal South Australia 1993 1990–1992
John Panizza   Liberal Western Australia 1990 1987–1997
Warwick Parer   Liberal Queensland 1993 1984–2000
Kay Patterson   Liberal Victoria 1990 1987–2008
Janet Powell   Democrat Victoria 1993 1986–1993
Chris Puplick   Liberal New South Wales 1990 1978–1980, 1984–1990
Hon. Robert Ray   Labor Victoria 1990 1981–2008
Margaret Reid   Liberal Australian Capital Territory 1990 [c] 1981–2003
Hon. Margaret Reynolds   Labor Queensland 1993 1983–1999
Hon. Graham Richardson   Labor New South Wales 1993 1983–1994
Hon. Susan Ryan [h]   Labor Australian Capital Territory 1990 [c] 1975–1988
Norm Sanders [a]   Democrat Tasmania 1990 1984–1990
Chris Schacht   Labor South Australia 1990 1987–2002
Glen Sheil   National Queensland 1990 1974–1981, 1984–1990
Jim Short   Liberal Victoria 1993 1984–1997
Hon. Kerry Sibraa   Labor New South Wales 1993 1975–1978, 1978–1994
John Stone [j]   National Queensland 1993 1987–1990
Grant Tambling   CLP Northern Territory 1990 [c] 1987–2001
Hon. Michael Tate   Labor Tasmania 1993 1977–1993
Baden Teague   Liberal South Australia 1990 1977–1996
Jo Vallentine   Independent [k] Western Australia 1990 1984–1992
Amanda Vanstone   Liberal South Australia 1993 1984–2007
Hon. Peter Walsh   Labor Western Australia 1993 1974–1993
Shirley Walters   Liberal Tasmania 1993 1975–1993
John Watson   Liberal Tasmania 1990 1978–2008
Robert Wood [d]   NDP New South Wales 1990 1987–1988
Olive Zakharov   Labor Victoria 1993 1983–1995