Australia

Senate

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45th Parliament

2016-07-02 – current

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Party Groupings

  • Australian Labor Party

    25 seats

  • Liberal Party

    23 seats

  • Australian Greens

    9 seats

  • Independent

    3 seats

  • National Party

    3 seats

  • Centre Alliance

    2 seats

  • Liberal National Party

    2 seats

  • Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party

    2 seats

  • Australian Conservatives

    1 seat

  • Country Liberal Party

    1 seat

  • DPRES

    1 seat

  • Derryn Hinch's Justice Party

    1 seat

  • PRES

    1 seat

  • United Australia 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 92%
Contact details 55%
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

Fraser Anning

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party — Queensland (2017-11-10 to 2018-01-15)

Independent — Queensland (2018-01-15 to 2018-06-04)

Katter's Australian Party — Queensland (2018-06-04 to 2018-10-25)

Independent — Queensland (from 2018-10-25)

Gender male
Born 1949-10-14
Email senator.anning@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10902
wikidata Q42893791
aph 273829

Wendy Askew

Liberal Party — Tasmania (from 2019-03-06)

Gender female
Born 1963-03-16
openaustralia 10914
wikidata Q61983633

Christopher Back

Liberal Party — WA (until 2017-07-31)

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

Andrew Bartlett

Australian Greens — Queensland (2017-11-10 to 2018-08-27)

Gender male
Born 1964-08-04
openaustralia 10029
wikidata Q16152123
aph DT6
viaf 88586320

Cory Bernardi

Liberal Party — SA (until 2017-02-07)

Australian Conservatives — SA (from 2017-02-07)

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

George Brandis

Liberal Party — Queensland (until 2018-02-15)

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

Slade Brockman

Liberal Party — WA (from 2017-08-16)

Gender male
Born 1970-03-27
Email senator.brockman@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10900
wikidata Q36913535
aph 30484

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

Brian Burston

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party — NSW (until 2018-06-18)

United Australia Party — NSW (from 2018-06-18)

Gender male
Born 1948-02-25
Email senator.burston@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10848
wikidata Q26703252
aph 207807

David Bushby

Liberal Party — Tasmania (until 2019-01-21)

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

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

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

Anthony Chisholm

Australian Labor Party — Queensland

Gender male
Born 1978-02-24
Email senator.chisholm@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10849
wikidata Q18719336
aph 39801

Raff Ciccone

Australian Labor Party — Victoria (from 2019-03-06)

Gender male
Born 1983-11-01
openaustralia 10915
wikidata Q61983642

Richard Colbeck

Liberal Party — Tasmania (from 2018-02-09)

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

Jacinta Collins

Australian Labor Party — Victoria (until 2019-02-15)

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

Stephen Conroy

Australian Labor Party — Victoria (until 2016-09-30)

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

Rod Culleton

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party — WA (until 2017-01-11)

Gender male
Born 1964-06-05
openaustralia 10850
wikidata Q26703083
aph 266482

Sam Dastyari

Australian Labor Party — NSW (until 2018-01-25)

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

Bob Day

Family First Party — SA (until 2016-11-01)

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

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

Jonathon Duniam

Liberal Party — Tasmania

Gender male
Born 1982-12-31
Email senator.duniam@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10847
wikidata Q25268390
aph 263418

Don Farrell

Australian Labor Party — SA

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

Mehreen Faruqi

Australian Greens — NSW (from 2018-08-18)

Gender female
Born 1963-07-08
openaustralia 10912
wikidata Q16728926

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

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 (until 2018-05-10)

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

Peter Georgiou

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party — WA (from 2017-03-20)

Gender male
Born 1974-01-13
Email senator.georgiou@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10898
wikidata Q28922735
aph 269583

Lucy Gichuhi

Family First Party — SA (2017-04-19 to 2017-05-03)

Independent — SA (2017-05-03 to 2018-02-02)

Liberal Party — SA (from 2018-02-02)

Gender female
Born 1962-09-23
Email senator.gichuhi@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10899
wikidata Q29373184
aph 270552

Stirling Griff

Nick Xenophon Team — SA (until 2018-04-10)

Centre Alliance — SA (from 2018-04-10)

Gender male
Born 1957-12-02
Email senator.griff@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10851
wikidata Q25324894
aph 76760

Pauline Hanson

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party — Queensland

Gender female
Born 1954-05-27
Email senator.hanson@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10280
wikidata Q466220
aph BK6
freebase /m/0j5pc
viaf 92816054

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

Derryn Hinch

Derryn Hinch's Justice Party — Victoria

Gender male
Born 1944-02-09
Email senator.hinch@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10852
wikidata Q5263246
aph 2O4
viaf 26454393
isni 0000 0000 6386 8107

Jane Hume

Liberal Party — Victoria

Gender female
Born 1971-04-30
Email senator.hume@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10853
wikidata Q26703243
aph 266499

Skye Kakoschke-Moore

Nick Xenophon Team — SA (until 2017-11-22)

Gender female
Born 1985-12-19
openaustralia 10854
wikidata Q25350752
aph 265982

Kristina Keneally

Australian Labor Party — NSW (from 2018-02-14)

Gender female
Born 1968-12-19
Email senator.keneally@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10906
wikidata Q442238
aph LNW
freebase /m/0d3t0d

Chris Ketter

Australian Labor Party — Queensland

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

Kimberley Kitching

Australian Labor Party — Victoria (from 2016-10-25)

Gender female
Born 1970-02-16
openaustralia 10897
wikidata Q27450592
aph 247512
google_knowledge /g/11c59sk9c8

Jacqui Lambie

Independent — Tasmania (until 2017-11-14)

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

David Leyonhjelm

Liberal Democratic Party — NSW (until 2019-03-01)

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

Sue Lines

Australian Labor Party — WA (until 2016-09-30)

DPRES — WA (from 2016-09-30)

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 (until 2017-07-14)

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

Ian Macdonald

Liberal Party — Queensland

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

Gavin Marshall

Australian Labor Party — Victoria

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

Steve Martin

Independent — Tasmania (from 2018-02-09)

Gender male
Born 1960-10-03
Email senator.martin@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10905
wikidata Q48152466
aph 275266

Jenny McAllister

Australian Labor Party — NSW

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

Malarndirri McCarthy

Australian Labor Party — NT

Gender female
Born 1970-04-19
Email Senator.McCarthy@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10855
wikidata Q6741359
aph 122087

James McGrath

Liberal National Party — Queensland

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

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

Jim Molan

Liberal Party — NSW (from 2017-12-22)

Gender male
Born 1950-04-11
Email senator.molan@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10904
wikidata Q6196985
aph FAB
viaf 136807508
isni 0000 0000 9318 2544

Claire Moore

Australian Labor Party — Queensland

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

Fiona Nash

National Party — NSW (until 2017-10-27)

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

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

Barry O'Sullivan

National Party — Queensland

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

Stephen Parry

PRES — Tasmania (until 2017-11-12)

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

James Paterson

Liberal Party — Victoria

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

Rex Patrick

Nick Xenophon Team — SA (2017-11-14 to 2018-04-10)

Centre Alliance — SA (from 2018-04-10)

Gender male
Born 1967-05-08
Email senator.patrick@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10903
wikidata Q43109080
aph 144292

Marise Payne

Liberal Party — NSW

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

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

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

Linda Reynolds

Liberal Party — WA

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 (until 2018-08-18)

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

Janet Rice

Australian Greens — Victoria

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

Malcolm Roberts

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party — Queensland (until 2017-10-27)

Gender male
Born 1955-05-03
openaustralia 10856
wikidata Q26848575
aph 266524

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 (until 2017-11-12)

PRES — Victoria (from 2017-11-13)

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

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

David Smith

Australian Labor Party — ACT (from 2018-05-23)

Gender male
Born 1970-03-25
Email senator.david.smith@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10910
wikidata Q53960880
aph 276714

Dean Smith

Liberal Party — WA

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

Jordon Steele-John

Australian Greens — WA (from 2017-11-10)

Gender male
Born 1994-10-14
Email senator.steele-john@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10901
wikidata Q33139188
aph 250156

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

Amanda Stoker

Liberal Party — Queensland (from 2018-03-21)

Gender female
Born 1982-10-30
openaustralia 10908
wikidata Q50808634
aph 237920

Tim Storer

Nick Xenophon Team — SA (2018-02-16 to 2018-02-26)

Independent — SA (from 2018-02-26)

Gender male
Born 1969-10-24
openaustralia 10909
wikidata Q48885543
aph 275424

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

Larissa Waters

Australian Greens — Queensland (until 2017-07-18)

Australian Greens — Queensland (from 2018-09-06)

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

Murray Watt

Australian Labor Party — Queensland

Gender male
Born 1973-01-20
Email senator.watt@aph.gov.au
openaustralia 10857
wikidata Q6939517
aph 245759

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

Nick Xenophon

Nick Xenophon Team — SA (until 2017-10-06)

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

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require 'everypolitician'
country = Everypolitician::Index.new.country('Australia')
house = country.legislature('Senate')
house.popolo.terms.find_by(id: 'term/45').memberships.each do |membership|
  puts "#{membership.person.name} (#{membership.party.name}): #{membership.person.gender}"
end

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