Australia

Senate

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44th Parliament

2013-09-07 – 2016-05-09

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Party Groupings

  • Liberal Party

    25 seats

  • Australian Labor Party

    24 seats

  • Australian Greens

    10 seats

  • Independent

    4 seats

  • National Party

    4 seats

  • Liberal National Party

    2 seats

  • Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party

    1 seat

  • Country Liberal Party

    1 seat

  • DPRES

    1 seat

  • Family First Party

    1 seat

  • Liberal Democratic Party

    1 seat

  • PRES

    1 seat

  • Palmer United Party

    1 seat

What’s in this dataset?

As much as we know. Here’s a taste of the information we have so far.

Biographical 100%
Social links 73%
Contact details 34%
Identifiers 100%

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Eric Abetz

Liberal Party — Tasmania

Gender male
Born 1958-01-25
openaustralia 10003
wikidata Q964840
aph N26
freebase /m/02zcrc
viaf 92771137

Christopher Back

Liberal Party — WA

Gender male
Born 1950-02-11
openaustralia 10722
wikidata Q5105780
aph J7Q

Cory Bernardi

Liberal Party — SA

Gender male
Born 1969-11-06
openaustralia 10038
wikidata Q4354299
aph G0D
quora Cory-Bernardi-1

Catryna Bilyk

Australian Labor Party — Tasmania

Gender female
Born 1959-02-07
openaustralia 10705
wikidata Q5053981
aph HZB

Simon Birmingham

Liberal Party — SA

Gender male
Born 1974-06-14
openaustralia 10044
wikidata Q7518284
aph H6X
viaf 305131579
isni 0000 0004 1731 9886

Mark Bishop

Australian Labor Party — WA (until 2014-06-30)

Gender male
Born 1954-06-29
openaustralia 10048
wikidata Q6766745
aph 2L6

Ron Boswell

National Party — Queensland (until 2014-06-30)

Gender male
Born 1940-12-09
openaustralia 10057
wikidata Q7363550
aph YE4
freebase /m/035kfb

Sue Boyce

Liberal Party — Queensland (until 2014-06-30)

Gender female
Born 1951-03-15
openaustralia 10062
wikidata Q16148043
aph H6V

George Brandis

Liberal Party — Queensland

Gender male
Born 1957-06-22
openaustralia 10067
wikidata Q5537216
aph 008W7
viaf 92126563
quora George-Brandis

Carol Brown

Australian Labor Party — Tasmania

Gender female
Born 1963-07-19
Email senator.carol.brown@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10071
wikidata Q5044273
aph F49

Joe Bullock

Australian Labor Party — WA (2014-07-01 to 2016-04-13)

Gender male
Born 1955-04-13
openaustralia 10826
wikidata Q16727734
aph 243237
freebase /m/0_v9b53

David Bushby

Liberal Party — Tasmania

Gender male
Born 1965-07-17
openaustralia 10085
wikidata Q5231953
aph HLL

Doug Cameron

Australian Labor Party — NSW

Gender male
Born 1951-01-27
Email senator.cameron@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10706
wikidata Q5300344
aph AI6
freebase /m/03d2n6v

Matthew Canavan

Liberal National Party — Queensland (from 2014-07-01)

Gender male
Born 1980-12-17
Email senator.canavan@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10827
wikidata Q16202391
aph 245212

Bob Carr

Australian Labor Party — NSW (until 2013-10-24)

Gender male
Born 1947-09-28
openaustralia 10767
wikidata Q541217
freebase /m/0g53dq
viaf 1979637
isni 0000 0000 7419 4152

Kim Carr

Australian Labor Party — Victoria

Gender male
Born 1955-07-02
Email senator.carr@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10103
wikidata Q1639334
aph AW5
freebase /m/03xnrb
quora Kim-Carr-2

Michaelia Cash

Liberal Party — WA

Gender female
Born 1970-07-19
Email minister.cash@jobs.gov.au
openaustralia 10707
wikidata Q572783
aph I0M
freebase /m/03qhslw

Richard Colbeck

Liberal Party — Tasmania

Gender male
Born 1958-04-05
Email senator.colbeck@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10131
wikidata Q7324825
aph 00AOL

Jacinta Collins

Australian Labor Party — Victoria

Gender female
Born 1962-09-04
openaustralia 10135
wikidata Q6110750
aph GB6
freebase /m/03xnvy
viaf 92774420

Stephen Conroy

Australian Labor Party — Victoria

Gender male
Born 1963-01-18
openaustralia 10142
wikidata Q2344980
aph 3L6
freebase /m/03xnyc

Mathias Cormann

Liberal Party — WA

Gender male
Born 1970-09-20
openaustralia 10148
wikidata Q1813692
aph HDA
freebase /m/02q_wlk

Sam Dastyari

Australian Labor Party — NSW

Gender male
Born 1983-07-28
openaustralia 10819
wikidata Q16206062
aph 225099
freebase /m/0wbmmf4

Bob Day

Family First Party — SA (from 2014-07-01)

Gender male
Born 1952-07-05
openaustralia 10828
wikidata Q4932238
aph HYG

Richard Di Natale

Australian Greens — Victoria

Gender male
Born 1970-06-06
Email senator.dinatale@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10755
wikidata Q186010
aph 53369
freebase /m/0266wf6

Patrick Dodson

Australian Labor Party — WA (from 2016-04-28)

Gender male
Born 1948-01-29
Email senator.dodson@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10846
wikidata Q7146371
aph SR5
viaf 13382837
isni 0000 0000 7870 2361

Sean Edwards

Liberal Party — SA

Gender male
Born 1962-01-02
openaustralia 10756
wikidata Q7440972
aph 225307

Alan Eggleston

Liberal Party — WA (until 2014-06-30)

Gender male
Born 1941-12-30
openaustralia 10193
wikidata Q4706579
aph 4L6

Don Farrell

Australian Labor Party — SA (until 2014-06-30)

Gender male
Born 1954-06-06
openaustralia 10708
wikidata Q5292594
aph I0N

John Faulkner

Australian Labor Party — NSW (until 2015-02-06)

Gender male
Born 1954-04-12
openaustralia 10214
wikidata Q466003
aph 5K4
freebase /m/04mw8y
viaf 7051694

David Fawcett

Liberal Party — SA

Gender male
Born 1963-10-23
Email senator.fawcett@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10215
wikidata Q5233587
aph DYU

Concetta Fierravanti-Wells

Liberal Party — NSW

Gender female
Born 1960-05-20
Email Concetta.Fierravanti-Wells@dfat.gov.au
openaustralia 10222
wikidata Q5158602
aph e4t

Mitch Fifield

Liberal Party — Victoria

Gender male
Born 1967-01-16
openaustralia 10224
wikidata Q6880868
aph D2I

Mark Furner

Australian Labor Party — Queensland (until 2014-06-30)

Gender male
Born 1958-04-11
openaustralia 10710
wikidata Q6767697
aph I0P

Alex Gallacher

Australian Labor Party — SA

Gender male
Born 1954-01-01
Email senator.gallacher@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10757
wikidata Q4717023
aph 204953
freebase /m/0crd4gq

Katy Gallagher

Australian Labor Party — ACT (from 2015-03-26)

Gender female
Born 1970-03-17
openaustralia 10838
wikidata Q463507
aph ING
freebase /m/0545sv

Sarah Hanson-Young

Australian Greens — SA

Gender female
Born 1981-12-23
Email senator.hanson-young@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10711
wikidata Q2224379
aph I0U

Bill Heffernan

Liberal Party — NSW

Gender male
Born 1943-03-03
openaustralia 10296
wikidata Q4909373
aph C16
viaf 94985805

John Hogg

PRES — Queensland (until 2014-06-30)

Gender male
Born 1949-03-19
openaustralia 10309
wikidata Q6239528
aph 7L6
freebase /m/089dmt

David Johnston

Liberal Party — WA

Gender male
Born 1956-02-14
openaustralia 10344
wikidata Q5235713
aph 00AON

Chris Ketter

Australian Labor Party — Queensland (from 2014-07-01)

Gender male
Born 1961-02-12
openaustralia 10829
wikidata Q17285485
aph 244247
freebase /m/010xfs93

Helen Kroger

Liberal Party — Victoria (until 2014-06-30)

Gender female
Born 1959-03-11
openaustralia 10712
wikidata Q5702622
aph G1N
freebase /m/0dnkrk

Jacqui Lambie

Palmer United Party — Tasmania (2014-07-01 to 2014-11-23)

Independent — Tasmania (from 2014-11-24)

Gender female
Born 1971-02-26
openaustralia 10830
wikidata Q16731201
aph 250026
freebase /m/0xpwrsl
viaf 315535241

Glenn Lazarus

Palmer United Party — Queensland (2014-07-01 to 2015-03-12)

Independent — Queensland (from 2015-03-13)

Gender male
Born 1965-12-11
openaustralia 10831
wikidata Q3108804
aph 108616

David Leyonhjelm

Liberal Democratic Party — NSW (from 2014-07-01)

Gender male
Born 1952-04-01
openaustralia 10832
wikidata Q16149378
aph 111206
quora David-Leyonhjelm

Jo Lindgren

Liberal Party — Queensland (from 2015-05-21)

Gender female
Born 1969-12-05
openaustralia 10840
wikidata Q20983383
aph 258337

Sue Lines

Australian Labor Party — WA

Gender female
Born 1953-12-15
Email senator.lines@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10782
wikidata Q16185446
aph 112096
freebase /m/0vpwzlw

Scott Ludlam

Australian Greens — WA

Gender male
Born 1970-01-10
openaustralia 10713
wikidata Q2260949
aph I07

Joe Ludwig

Australian Labor Party — Queensland

Gender male
Born 1959-07-21
openaustralia 10397
wikidata Q6211016
aph 84N

Kate Lundy

Australian Labor Party — ACT (until 2015-03-24)

Gender female
Born 1967-12-15
openaustralia 10398
wikidata Q6375611
aph 7G6
freebase /m/02s62c

Ian Macdonald

Liberal Party — Queensland

Gender male
Born 1945-11-29
openaustralia 10401
wikidata Q5982140
aph YW4
viaf 106600107
isni 0000 0000 7649 6007

John Madigan

Democratic Labor Party — Victoria (until 2014-09-04)

Independent — Victoria (from 2014-09-04)

Gender male
Born 1966-07-21
openaustralia 10759
wikidata Q6246365
aph 217571

Gavin Marshall

Australian Labor Party — Victoria (until 2014-07-06)

DPRES — Victoria (from 2014-07-07)

Gender male
Born 1960-03-25
Email senator.marshall@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10419
wikidata Q5528211
aph 00AOP

Brett Mason

Liberal Party — Queensland (until 2015-04-15)

Gender male
Born 1962-03-15
openaustralia 10423
wikidata Q4962278
aph 84M
viaf 61144648428052965709
lcauth no2015122450

Jenny McAllister

Australian Labor Party — NSW (from 2015-05-06)

Gender female
Born 1973-07-04
Email senator.mcallister@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10839
wikidata Q16732210
aph 121628
freebase /m/0h54nzc

Anne McEwen

Australian Labor Party — SA

Gender female
Born 1954-08-03
openaustralia 10433
wikidata Q4768636
aph e5e

James McGrath

Liberal National Party — Queensland (from 2014-07-01)

Gender male
Born 1974-05-14
openaustralia 10833
wikidata Q16732314
aph 217241

Bridget McKenzie

National Party — Victoria

Gender female
Born 1969-12-27
Email senator.mckenzie@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10758
wikidata Q4966734
aph 207825

Nick McKim

Australian Greens — Tasmania (from 2015-08-19)

Gender male
Born 1965-06-11
Email senator.mckim@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10841
wikidata Q14201517
aph JKM
freebase /m/07khdn

Jan McLucas

Australian Labor Party — Queensland

Gender female
Born 1958-03-27
openaustralia 10447
wikidata Q6149491
aph 84L

Christine Milne

Australian Greens — Tasmania (until 2015-08-10)

Gender female
Born 1953-05-14
openaustralia 10458
wikidata Q542278
aph ka5
freebase /m/045hs1
viaf 295183539

Claire Moore

Australian Labor Party — Queensland

Gender female
Born 1956-02-19
openaustralia 10463
wikidata Q5125267
aph 00AOQ
freebase /m/07_2gf

Ricky Muir

Australian Motoring Enthusiast Party — Victoria (from 2014-07-01)

Gender male
Born 1980-12-25
openaustralia 10834
wikidata Q16732967
aph 250024
quora Ricky-Muir

Fiona Nash

National Party — NSW

Gender female
Born 1965-05-06
openaustralia 10478
wikidata Q5451092
aph e5g
freebase /m/074stx
youtube UCTVUrQdDdyG-S5-9GU16ZaA

Deborah O'Neill

Australian Labor Party — NSW (from 2013-11-13)

Gender female
Born 1961-06-04
openaustralia 10747
wikidata Q5248341
aph 140651
viaf 305131580

Barry O'Sullivan

National Party — Queensland (from 2014-02-11)

Gender male
Born 1957-03-24
openaustralia 10824
wikidata Q16189433
aph 247871

Stephen Parry

DPRES — Tasmania (until 2014-07-06)

PRES — Tasmania (from 2014-07-07)

Gender male
Born 1960-10-31
openaustralia 10507
wikidata Q7610200
aph e5v

James Paterson

Liberal Party — Victoria (from 2016-03-09)

Gender male
Born 1987-11-21
Email senator.paterson@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10845
wikidata Q23016290
aph 144138
google_knowledge /g/11cm0449my

Marise Payne

Liberal Party — NSW

Gender female
Born 1964-07-29
Email minister@defence.gov.au
openaustralia 10509
wikidata Q16191011
aph M56
viaf 94994359

Nova Peris

Australian Labor Party — NT

Gender female
Born 1971-02-25
openaustralia 10820
wikidata Q3566032
aph CDK
freebase /m/03wn4q
viaf 78293469

Helen Polley

Australian Labor Party — Tasmania

Gender female
Born 1957-02-09
Email senator.polley@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10515
wikidata Q16189453
aph e5x

Louise Pratt

Australian Labor Party — WA (until 2014-06-30)

Gender female
Born 1972-04-18
openaustralia 10714
wikidata Q1872184
aph I0T
viaf 305105021

Linda Reynolds

Liberal Party — WA (from 2014-07-01)

Gender female
Born 1965-05-16
Email senator.reynolds@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10835
wikidata Q16735152
aph 250216
freebase /m/0y4n862

Lee Rhiannon

Australian Greens — NSW

Gender female
Born 1951-05-30
openaustralia 10760
wikidata Q6514788
aph CPR

Janet Rice

Australian Greens — Victoria (from 2014-07-01)

Gender female
Born 1960-11-18
Email senator.rice@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10836
wikidata Q16193816
aph 155410
viaf 214068936
gnd 170317528

Michael Ronaldson

Liberal Party — Victoria (until 2016-02-28)

Gender male
Born 1954-02-13
openaustralia 10550
wikidata Q6833958
aph xt4

Anne Ruston

Liberal Party — SA

Gender female
Born 1963-06-10
Email senator.ruston@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10781
wikidata Q4768766
aph 243273

Scott Ryan

Liberal Party — Victoria

Gender male
Born 1973-05-12
openaustralia 10715
wikidata Q7437180
aph I0Q

Nigel Scullion

Country Liberal Party — NT

Gender male
Born 1956-05-04
Email nigel.scullion@ia.pm.gov.au
openaustralia 10569
wikidata Q7032631
aph 00AOM

Zed Seselja

Liberal Party — ACT

Gender male
Born 1977-03-27
Email senator.seselja@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10822
wikidata Q8068367
aph HZE

Rachel Siewert

Australian Greens — WA

Gender female
Born 1961-11-04
Email senator.siewert@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10584
wikidata Q2125232
aph e5z
viaf 93778979

Robert Simms

Australian Greens — SA (from 2015-09-22)

Gender male
Born 1984-03-26
openaustralia 10842
wikidata Q21066567
aph 170166

Lisa Singh

Australian Labor Party — Tasmania

Gender female
Born 1972-02-20
Email senator.singh@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10761
wikidata Q16191279
aph M0R

Arthur Sinodinos

Liberal Party — NSW

Gender male
Born 1957-02-25
Email senator.sinodinos@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10766
wikidata Q4800293
aph bv7

Dean Smith

Liberal Party — WA

Gender male
Born 1969-05-15
Email senator.smith@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10768
wikidata Q5246470
aph 241710

Ursula Stephens

Australian Labor Party — NSW (until 2014-06-30)

Gender female
Born 1954-07-07
openaustralia 10609
wikidata Q7901281
aph 00AOS

Glenn Sterle

Australian Labor Party — WA

Gender male
Born 1960-01-03
Email senator.sterle@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10610
wikidata Q5569124
aph e68
freebase /m/09606w

Lin Thorp

Australian Labor Party — Tasmania (until 2014-06-30)

Gender female
Born 1953-11-04
openaustralia 10769
wikidata Q6550105
aph 183342
viaf 160558880

Mehmet Tillem

Australian Labor Party — Victoria (until 2014-06-30)

Gender male
Born 1974-09-10
openaustralia 10821
wikidata Q16215128
aph 249499

Anne Urquhart

Australian Labor Party — Tasmania

Gender female
Born 1957-10-18
Email senator.urquhart@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10763
wikidata Q4768857
aph 231199
freebase /m/0czb0hx

Dio Wang

Palmer United Party — WA (from 2014-07-01)

Gender male
Born 1981-01-20
openaustralia 10837
wikidata Q16239978
aph 250045
freebase /m/0y4xptg

Larissa Waters

Australian Greens — Queensland

Gender female
Born 1977-02-09
Email senator.waters@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10764
wikidata Q6489515
aph 192970
freebase /m/027jhc7

Peter Whish-Wilson

Australian Greens — Tasmania

Gender male
Born 1968-02-24
Email senator.whish-wilson@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10780
wikidata Q7177677
aph 195565

John Williams

National Party — NSW

Gender male
Born 1955-01-16
openaustralia 10716
wikidata Q6264317
aph I0V
viaf 52924482
isni 0000 0000 1947 0222

Penny Wong

Australian Labor Party — SA

Gender female
Born 1968-11-05
openaustralia 10678
wikidata Q456759
aph 00AOU
freebase /m/03tfhc
quora Penny-Wong-6

Penny Wright

Australian Greens — SA (until 2015-09-10)

Gender female
Born 1961-01-19
openaustralia 10765
wikidata Q7164452
aph 200287

Nick Xenophon

Independent — SA

Gender male
Born 1959-01-29
openaustralia 10717
wikidata Q7028174
aph 8IV
viaf 120127069
isni 0000 0000 7739 5611

Ruby programmer? It’s easy to use this data in your own app! Use the gem like this: 

require 'everypolitician'
country = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('Australia')
house = country.legislature('Senate')
house.popolo.terms.find_by(id: 'term/44').memberships.each do |membership|
  puts "#{membership.person.name} (#{membership.party.name}): #{membership.person.gender}"
end

Libraries also available in Python and PHP.

Main Sources: http://data.openaustralia.org/, http://wikidata.org/, http://gender-balance.org/

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