List of LGBTI holders of political offices in Australia
Federal parliament

List of LGBTI holders of political offices in Australia

Section Title: Federal parliament
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Member	Portrait	Party	Seat	Term in Office	Key Positions Held	Notes

Neil Brown	Liberal	Member for Diamond Valley	25 October 1969	2 December 1972	Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs Minister for Communications Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia	Came out in 1996.

13 December 1975	5 March 1983

Member for Menzies	1 December 1984	25 February 1991

Neal Blewett	-	Labor	Member for Bonython	10 December 1977	11 February 1994	Minister for Health, later Minister for Community Services and Health Minister for Trade and Overseas Development Minister for Social Security	Came out in 2000.

Bob Brown	-	Greens	Senator for Tasmania	1 July 1996	15 June 2012	Leader of the Australian Greens	First openly gay party leader, Senator, and parliamentarian.

Brian Greig	Democrats	Senator for Western Australia	1 July 1999	30 June 2005	Interim Leader of the Australian Democrats

Penny Wong	-	Labor	Senator for South Australia	1 July 2002	incumbent	Minister for Climate Change, Energy Efficiency and Water Minister for Finance and Deregulation Leader of the Government in the Senate Leader of the Opposition in the Senate	First openly gay member of cabinet.

Louise Pratt	-	Labor	Senator for Western Australia	1 July 2008	30 June 2014

2 July 2016	incumbent

Dean Smith	Liberal	Senator for Western Australia	2 May 2012	incumbent

Janet Rice	-	Greens	Senator for Victoria	1 July 2014	incumbent

Robert Simms	-	Greens	Senator for South Australia	22 September 2015	2 July 2016

Trent Zimmerman	-	Liberal	Member for North Sydney	5 December 2015	incumbent	First openly gay member of the House of Representatives.

Trevor Evans	-	Liberal	Member for Brisbane	2 July 2016	incumbent

Julian Hill	-	Labor	Member for Bruce	2 July 2016	incumbent

Tim Wilson	-	Liberal	Member for Goldstein	2 July 2016	incumbent

Kerryn Phelps	-	Independent	Member for Wentworth	20 October 2018	incumbent	First openly gay female member of the House of Representatives.

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Simms was one of the LGBTI members in the Parliament of Australia.

final_sentence: Simms was one of the LGBTI members in the Parliament of Australia.