President of the Senate (Australia)

The President of the Senate is the presiding officer of the Australian Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Australia.

The largest party in the Senate is not always the governing party, as government is determined by the House of Representatives. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may  be from different parties.COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA CONSTITUTION ACT - SECT 17

List of presidents
 # Name Party State  Term start Term end 1  Sir Richard Baker    Free Trade  South Australia  9 May 1901  31 December 1906 2  (Sir) Albert Gould    Free Trade /Anti-Socialist  New South Wales 20 February 1907  30 June 1910   Liberal 3  Harry Turley    Labor  Queensland  1 July 1910  8 July 1913 4  Thomas Givens    Labor  Queensland 9 July 1913  30 June 1926   National Labor   Nationalist 5  Sir John Newlands   Nationalist  South Australia 1 July 1926  13 August 1929 6  Walter Kingsmill    Nationalist  Western Australia 14 August 1929   30 August 1932   United Australia 7  Patrick Lynch    United Australia  Western Australia  31 August 1932  30 June 1938 8  John Hayes    United Australia Tasmania  1 July 1938  30 June 1941 9  James Cunningham    Labor  Western Australia  1 July 1941  4 July 1943 10  Gordon Brown    Labor  Queensland  23 September 1943  19 March 1951 11  Ted Mattner    Liberal  South Australia  12 June 1951  7 September 1953 12  (Sir) Alister McMullin    Liberal  New South Wales  8 September 1953  30 June 1971 13  Sir Magnus Cormack    Liberal  Victoria  17 August 1971  11 April 1974 14  Justin O'Byrne    Labor  Tasmania  9 July 1974  11 November 1975 15  (Sir) Condor Laucke    Liberal  South Australia  17 February 1976  30 June 1981 16  (Sir) Harold Young    Liberal  South Australia  18 August 1981  4 February 1983 17  Doug McClelland    Labor  New South Wales  21 April 1983  23 January 1987 18  Kerry Sibraa    Labor  New South Wales  17 February 1987  31 January 1994 19  Michael Beahan    Labor  Western Australia  1 February 1994  30 June 1996 20  Margaret Reid    Liberal  ACT  20 August 1996  18 August 2002 21  Paul Calvert    Liberal  Tasmania 19 August 2002  14 August 2007 22  Alan Ferguson    Liberal  South Australia 14 August 2007  25 August 2008 23  John Hogg    Labor  Queensland  26 August 2008  30 June 2014 24  Stephen Parry    Liberal  Tasmania  7 July 2014  2 November 201725  Scott Ryan    Liberal  Victoria  13 November 2017  18 October 202126  Slade Brockman    Liberal  Western Australia  18 October 2021  Incumbent

References

Category:Parliament of Australia
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