Senate composition at 1 July 1953
Government (31) - (1 seat majority)
  Liberal (26) [lower-roman 1]
  Country Party (5) [lower-roman 1]

Opposition (29)
  Labor (29) [lower-roman 2]
 
Changes in composition

  1. 1 2 Agnes Robertson left the Liberal Party in 1955, then after 21 days as an independent joined the Country Party.
  2. ↑ George Cole joined the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist) in 1955, which became the Democratic Labor Party in 1957.

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1953 to 1956.[1] Half of its members were elected at the 28 April 1951 election and had terms deemed to start on 1 July 1950 and finishing on 30 June 1956; the other half were elected at the 9 May 1953 election and had terms starting on 1 July 1953 and finishing on 30 June 1959.

Senator Party State Term ending Years in office
Stan Amour LaborNew South Wales19591938–1965
Ken Anderson LiberalNew South Wales19591953–1975
John Armstrong LaborNew South Wales19561938–1962
James Arnold LaborNew South Wales19591941–1965
Bill Ashley LaborNew South Wales19561938–1958
Bill Aylett LaborTasmania19591938–1965
Archie Benn LaborQueensland19561950–1968
Gordon Brown [lower-alpha 1] LaborQueensland19591932–1965
Nancy Buttfield [lower-alpha 2] LiberalSouth Australia1956 [lower-alpha 3]1955–1965, 1968–1974
Condon Byrne LaborQueensland19591951–1959, 1968–1974
Don Cameron LaborVictoria19561938–1962
George Cole Labor/ALP (A-C) [lower-alpha 4]Tasmania19591950–1965
Joe Cooke LaborWestern Australia19591947–1951, 1952–1965
Walter Cooper CountryQueensland19561928–1932, 1935–1968
Ben Courtice LaborQueensland19561937–1962
Jack Critchley LaborSouth Australia19591947–1959
Jack Devlin LaborVictoria19591946–1957
James Fraser LaborWestern Australia19591938–1959
John Gorton LiberalVictoria19561950–1968
Donald Grant LaborNew South Wales19591944–1959
Allan Guy LiberalTasmania19561950–1956
Clive Hannaford LiberalSouth Australia19561950–1967
John Harris  LaborWestern Australia19591947–1951, 1953–1959
Bert Hendrickson LaborVictoria19591947–1971
Denham Henty LiberalTasmania19561950–1968
Roy Kendall LiberalQueensland19591950–1965
Pat Kennelly LaborVictoria19591953–1971
Keith Laught LiberalSouth Australia19591951–1969
Ted Maher CountryQueensland19591950–1965
John Marriott LiberalTasmania19591953–1975
Ted Mattner LiberalSouth Australia19561944–1946, 1950–1968
John McCallum LiberalNew South Wales19561950–1962
Nick McKenna LaborTasmania19561944–1968
George McLeay [lower-alpha 2] LiberalSouth Australia19561935–1947, 1950–1955
Alister McMullin LiberalNew South Wales19591951–1971
Theo Nicholls LaborSouth Australia19561944–1968
Justin O'Byrne LaborTasmania19591947–1981
Sid O'Flaherty LaborSouth Australia19561944–1962
Neil O'Sullivan LiberalQueensland19561947–1962
Shane Paltridge [lower-alpha 5] LiberalWestern Australia19561951–1966
Rex Pearson LiberalSouth Australia19591951–1961
Dame Annabelle Rankin LiberalQueensland19561947–1971
George Rankin CountryVictoria19561950–1956
Albert Reid CountryNew South Wales19561950–1962
Agnes Robertson Liberal / Ind. /
Country [lower-alpha 6]		Western Australia19561950–1962
John Ryan LaborSouth Australia19591950–1959
Charles Sandford LaborVictoria19561947–1956, 1957–1966
Malcolm Scott LiberalWestern Australia19591950–1971
Harrie Seward CountryWestern Australia19591951–1958
Jim Sheehan LaborVictoria19561938–1940, 1944–1962
John Spicer LiberalVictoria19561940–1944, 1950–1956
Bill Spooner LiberalNew South Wales19561950–1965
Dame Dorothy Tangney LaborWestern Australia19561943–1968
Jim Toohey  LaborSouth Australia19591953–1971
Seddon Vincent LiberalWestern Australia19561950–1964
Robert Wardlaw LiberalTasmania19561953–1962
Dame Ivy Wedgwood LiberalVictoria19591950–1971
Don Willesee LaborWestern Australia19561950–1975
Ian Wood LiberalQueensland19591950–1978
Robert Wordsworth LiberalTasmania19591950–1959
Reg Wright LiberalTasmania19561950–1978

Notes

  1. ↑ Father of the Senate
  2. 1 2 Liberal Senator George McLeay died on 14 September 1955; Liberal Party member Nancy Buttfield was appointed to fill the ensuing vacancy on 11 October.
  3. ↑ Appointed to a casual vacancy and only held office until the earlier of the next election for the House of Representatives or the Senate.[2]
  4. ↑ As part of the 1955 Labor split, George Cole joined the Australian Labor Party (Anti-Communist), which became the Democratic Labor Party in 1957.[3]
  5. ↑ Liberal Senator Shane Paltridge was the 6th and final Senator elected for Western Australia at the 1953 election and won the short term vacancy caused by the death of Edmund Piesse.
  6. ↑ Robertson resigned from the Liberal Party on 7 September 1955, after being dropped from the party's Senate ticket for the upcoming election.[4] She sat as an Independent until 28 September, when she joined the Country Party.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1953". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Evans, H. "Filling Casual Vacancies before 1977" (PDF). The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate, Volume 3. Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Cole, George Ronald (1908–1969)". The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate. Parliament of Australia.
  4. ↑ SENATOR AGNES ROBERTSON LEAVES LIBERALS, The Canberra Times, 8 September 1955.
  5. ↑ Senator Robertson Joins C.P., The Canberra Times, 29 September 1955.
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