The Senate is one of the two houses of the Australian Federal Parliament.
It consists of 76 senators, twelve from each of the six states and two from each of the mainland territories.
It shares the power to make laws with the other House of the Parliament, the House of Representatives.
The Senate is elected by proportional representation, so that its composition closely reflects the voting pattern of the electors.......


............Australian Greens
Brown, Bob - Senator for Tasmania
Hanson-Young, Sarah - Senator for South Australia
Ludlam, Scott - Senator for Western Australia
Milne, Christine - Senator for Tasmania
Siewert, Rachel - Senator for Western Australia

Australian Labor Party
Arbib, the Hon Mark - Senator for New South Wales
Bilyk, Catryna - Senator for Tasmania
Bishop, Mark - Senator for Western Australia
Brown, Carol - Senator for Tasmania
Cameron, Doug - Senator for New South Wales
Carr, the Hon Kim - Senator for Victoria
Collins, Jacinta - Senator for Victoria
Conroy, the Hon Stephen - Senator for Victoria
Crossin, Trish - Senator for Northern Territory
Evans, the Hon Christopher - Senator for Western Australia
Farrell, Don - Senator for South Australia
Faulkner, the Hon John - Senator for New South Wales
Feeney, David - Senator for Victoria
Forshaw, Michael - Senator for New South Wales
Furner, Mark - Senator for Queensland
Hogg, the Hon John - Senator for Queensland
Hurley, Annette - Senator for South Australia
Hutchins, Steve - Senator for New South Wales
Ludwig, the Hon Joe - Senator for Queensland
Lundy, Kate - Senator for Australian Capital Territory
McEwen, Anne - Senator for South Australia
McLucas, the Hon Jan - Senator for Queensland
Marshall, Gavin - Senator for Victoria
Moore, Claire - Senator for Queensland
O'Brien, Kerry - Senator for Tasmania
Polley, Helen - Senator for Tasmania
Pratt, Louise - Senator for Western Australia
Sherry, the Hon Nick - Senator for Tasmania
Stephens, the Hon Ursula - Senator for New South Wales
Sterle, Glenn - Senator for Western Australia
Wong, the Hon Penny - Senator for South Australia
Wortley, Dana - Senator for South Australia

Country Liberal Party
Scullion, the Hon Nigel - Senator for Northern Territory

Family First Party
Fielding, Steve - Senator for Victoria

Independent
Xenophon, Nick - Senator for South Australia

Liberal Party of Australia
Abetz, the Hon Eric - Senator for Tasmania
Adams, Judith - Senator for Western Australia
Back, Chris - Senator for Western Australia
Barnett, Guy - Senator for Tasmania
Bernardi, Cory - Senator for South Australia
Birmingham, Simon - Senator for South Australia
Boyce, Sue - Senator for Queensland
Brandis, the Hon George - Senator for Queensland
Bushby, David - Senator for Tasmania
Cash, Michaelia - Senator for Western Australia
Colbeck, the Hon Richard - Senator for Tasmania
Coonan, the Hon Helen - Senator for New South Wales
Cormann, Mathias - Senator for Western Australia
Eggleston, Alan - Senator for Western Australia
Ferguson, the Hon Alan - Senator for South Australia
Fierravanti-Wells, Concetta - Senator for New South Wales
Fifield, Mitch - Senator for Victoria
Fisher, Mary Jo - Senator for South Australia
Heffernan, the Hon Bill - Senator for New South Wales
Humphries, Gary - Senator for Australian Capital Territory
Johnston, the Hon David - Senator for Western Australia
Kroger, Helen - Senator for Victoria
Macdonald, the Hon Ian - Senator for Queensland
McGauran, Julian - Senator for Victoria
Mason, the Hon Brett - Senator for Queensland
Minchin, the Hon Nick - Senator for South Australia
Parry, Stephen - Senator for Tasmania
Payne, Marise - Senator for New South Wales
Ronaldson, the Hon Michael - Senator for Victoria
Ryan, Scott - Senator for Victoria
Troeth, the Hon Judith - Senator for Victoria
Trood, Russell - Senator for Queensland

The Nationals
Boswell, the Hon Ronald - Senator for Queensland
Joyce, Barnaby - Senator for Queensland
Nash, Fiona - Senator for New South Wales
Williams, John - Senator for New South Wales


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Sprintcyclist wrote on Aug 16^th, 2010 at 10:57am:



I started a thread on the 9th August on reforming the Senate.

http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1278650233

As the senate was set up as a house to look after States rights. there should be no one from any policitical party sitting in the Senate, it should be only independents that are elect to the Senate and they should not be able to be Minister of the Crown.