COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA ============================================================================================== THE SENATE ============================================================================================== MEMBERS BY STATE OR TERRITORY SINCE 1901 ============================================================================================== WESTERN AUSTRALIA (6 seats 1901-49, 10 seats 1949-84, 12 seats from 1984) ============================================================================================== First seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hugh DE LARGIE Labor, Nat 29 March 1901 to 30 June 1923 Charles Montague GRAHAM Labor 1 July 1923 to 30 June 1929 Hal Pateshall COLEBATCH Nationalist 1 July 1929 to 20 March 1933 Herbert Brayley COLLETT Nat UAP Lib 6 April 1933 to 30 June 1947 Joseph Alfred COOKE Labor 1 July 1947 to 19 March 1951 Shane Dunne PALTRIDGE Liberal 28 April 1951 to 21 January 1966 Reginald Greive WITHERS Liberal 17 February 1966 to 26 November 1966 Lawrence Degenhardt WILKINSON Labor 26 November 1966 to 11 April 1974 Frederick Michael CHANEY Liberal 18 May 1974 to 27 February 1990 Ian Gordon CAMPBELL Liberal 16 May 1990 to 31 May 2007 Mathias Hubert Paul CORMANN Liberal 19 June 2007 to 6 November 2020 Benjamin John SMALL Liberal 25 November 2020 to 15 April 2022 Benjamin John SMALL Liberal 18 May 2022 to 30 June 2022 Fatima PAYMAN Labor from 1 July 2022 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Second seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Norman Kirkwood EWING Free Trade 29 March 1901 to 17 April 1903 Henry John SAUNDERS Free Trade 20 May 1903 to 31 December 1903 John William CROFT Labor 1 January 1904 to 30 June 1910 Richard BUZACOTT Labor, Nat 1 July 1910 to 30 June 1923 Walter KINGSMILL Nationalist 1 July 1923 to 15 January 1935 Allan Nicoll McDONALD UAP, Liberal 5 March 1935 to 30 June 1947 John HARRIS Labor 1 July 1947 to 28 April 1951 Harrie Stephen SEWARD Country 28 April 1951 to 23 July 1958 Thomas Charles DRAKE-BROCKMAN Country, Nats 2 August 1958 to 21 November 1958 George Howard BRANSON Liberal 22 November 1958 to 30 June 1971 Peter Drew DURACK Liberal 1 July 1971 to 30 June 1993 Christopher Martin ELLISON Liberal 1 July 1993 to 30 January 2009 Christopher John BACK Liberal 11 March 2009 to 31 July 2017 William Edward Slade BROCKMAN Liberal from 16 August 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Third seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward Augustine St Aubyn HARNEY Free Trade 29 March 1901 to 31 December 1903 Christopher George HENDERSON Labor, Nat 1 January 1904 to 30 June 1923 Edward NEEDHAM Labor 1 July 1923 to 30 June 1929 Edward Bertram JOHNSTON Country 1 July 1929 to 6 September 1942 Charles George LATHAM Country 8 October 1942 to 20 August 1943 Richard Harry NASH Labor 21 August 1943 to 12 December 1951 Joseph Alfred COOKE Labor 7 February 1952 to 30 June 1965 John Murray WHEELDON Labor 1 July 1965 to 30 June 1981 Noel Ashley CRICHTON-BROWNE Liberal 1 July 1981 to 30 June 1996 Thomas Mark BISHOP Labor 1 July 1996 to 30 June 2014 Joseph Warrington BULLOCK Labor 1 July 2014 to 13 April 2016 Patrick Lionel Djargun DODSON Labor from 28 April 2016 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fourth seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Perceval MATHESON Free Trade 29 March 1901 to 31 December 1906 Patrick Joseph LYNCH Labor, Nat 1 January 1907 to 30 June 1938 James Mackintosh FRASER Labor 1 July 1938 to 30 June 1959 Hartley Gordon James CANT Labor 1 July 1959 to 11 April 1974 Ruth Nancy COLEMAN Labor 18 May 1974 to 5 June 1987 Michael Eamon BEAHAN Labor 11 July 1987 to 30 June 1996 Alan EGGLESTON Liberal 1 July 1996 to 30 June 2014 Linda Karen REYNOLDS Liberal from 1 July 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fifth seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George Foster PEARCE Labor, Nat, UAP 29 March 1901 to 30 June 1938 Robert Ernest CLOTHIER Labor 1 July 1938 to 30 June 1950 Edmund Stephen Roper PIESSE Country 1 July 1950 to 25 August 1952 William Charles ROBINSON Country 30 September 1952 to 8 May 1953 John HARRIS Labor 1 July 1953 to 30 June 1959 Thomas Charles DRAKE-BROCKMAN Country, Nats 1 July 1959 to 30 June 1978 Allan Charles ROCHER Liberal 1 July 1978 to 10 February 1981 John Raymond MARTYR Liberal 11 March 1981 to 5 March 1983 Peter Francis Salmon COOK Labor 5 March 1983 to 30 June 2005 Judith Anne ADAMS Liberal 1 July 2005 to 31 March 2012 Dean Anthony SMITH Liberal from 2 May 2012 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sixth seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Miles Staniforth Cater SMITH Free Trade 29 March 1901 to 31 December 1906 Edward NEEDHAM Labor 1 January 1907 to 30 June 1920 Edmund Alfred DRAKE-BROCKMAN Nationalist 1 July 1920 to 30 June 1926 William CARROLL Country 1 July 1926 to 30 May 1936 Thomas William MARWICK Country 19 August 1936 to 22 October 1937 James CUNNINGHAM Labor 23 October 1937 to 4 July 1943 Dorothy Margaret TANGNEY Labor 21 August 1943 to 30 June 1968 Reginald Greive WITHERS Liberal 1 July 1968 to 5 June 1987 Jean Alice JENKINS Democrats 11 July 1987 to 30 June 1990 Arthur Winston CRANE Liberal 1 July 1990 to 30 June 2002 David Albert Lloyd JOHNSTON Liberal 1 July 2002 to 2 July 2016 Rodney Norman CULLETON One Nation 2 July 2016 to 11 January 2017 Panagiotis GEORGIOU One Nation 10 March 2017 to 30 June 2019 Matthew Anthony O'SULLIVAN Liberal from 1 July 2019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Seventh seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Malcolm Fox SCOTT Liberal 22 February 1950 to 30 June 1971 Sydney Ambrose NEGUS Independent 1 July 1971 to 18 May 1974 Gordon Douglas McINTOSH Labor 18 May 1974 to 5 June 1987 John Horace PANIZZA Liberal 11 July 1987 to 31 January 1997 Philip Ross LIGHTFOOT Liberal 19 May 1997 to 30 June 2008 Michaelia Clare CASH Liberal from 1 July 2008 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eighth seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Donald Robert WILLESEE Labor 22 February 1950 to 11 November 1975 Andrew Murray THOMAS Liberal 13 December 1975 to 5 March 1983 John Gordon EVANS Democrats 5 March 1983 to 30 June 1985 Josephine VALLENTINE NDP Ind Greens 1 July 1985 to 31 January 1992 Christabel Marguerite CHAMARETTE Greens 12 March 1992 to 30 June 1996 Andrew James Marshall MURRAY Democrats 1 July 1996 to 30 June 2008 Scott LUDLAM Greens 1 July 2008 to 14 July 2017 Jordon Alexander STEELE-JOHN Greens from 10 November 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ninth seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Agnes Robertson ROBERTSON Lib, Country 1 July 1950 to 30 June 1962 Edgar Wylie PROWSE Country 1 July 1962 to 31 December 1973 David Donald REID Country 16 January 1974 to 18 May 1974 Peter Alexander WALSH Labor 18 May 1974 to 30 June 1993 Christopher Vaughan EVANS Labor 1 July 1993 to 12 April 2013 Susan LINES Labor from 15 May 2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tenth seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Victor Seddon VINCENT Liberal 1 July 1950 to 9 November 1964 John Peter SIM Liberal 26 November 1964 to 30 June 1981 Patricia Jessie GILES Labor 1 July 1981 to 30 June 1993 Diane Elizabeth MARGETTS Greens 1 July 1993 to 30 June 1999 Brian Andrew GREIG Democrats 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2005 Rachel Mary SIEWERT Greens 1 July 2005 to 6 September 2021 Dorinda Rose COX Greens from 14 September 2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eleventh seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Susan Christine KNOWLES Liberal 1 December 1984 to 30 June 2005 Glenn STERLE Labor from 1 July 2005 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Twelfth seat ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Philip McKIERNAN Labor 1 December 1984 to 30 June 2002 Ruth Stephanie WEBBER Labor 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2008 Louise Clare PRATT Labor 1 July 2008 to 30 June 2014 Zhenya WANG PUP 1 July 2014 to 2 July 2016 Louise Clare PRATT Labor from 2 July 2016