Edward Augustine St Aubyn Harney (31 August 1865 – 17 May 1929) was an Irish lawyer who sat in both the Australian Senate and the British House of Commons, and who also had a political and legal career in Australia.
Button became part of the interim Advisory Council which took over the branch after intervention, and in 1974 he was elected to the Australian Senate as a strong supporter of Whitlam.
It was this segment, which implied use of steroids at the AIS facility, that led to the eventual Senate enquiry in drugs in sport in Australia.
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Helmore contested the Senate unsuccessfully in 1937 as a United Australia Party candidate; he would also make an unsuccessful attempt to enter the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1948.
He stood as a Senate candidate for the Services Party of Australia at the 1946 federal election, and was president of the Queensland branch of the United Service Institute from 1946 to 1961.
Wirrpanda has also expressed a desire to enter politics, and unsucessfully contested 2013 federal election as the National Party's candidate for the Senate in Western Australia.
In 1931 he was appointed to the Australian Senate as a Labor Senator for South Australia, filling the casual vacancy caused by the death of Country Party Senator John Chapman, but lost it in the election of later that year.
Robertson was born in West Perth, Australia, to Scottish-born journalist Robert Robertson and his wife Agnes, who would go on to become a member of the Australian Senate.
Hon Sir Josiah Henry Symon KCMG (27 September 1846 – 29 March 1934), Scottish-Australian lawyer and politician, was a member of the Australian Senate in the First Australian Parliament, and an Attorney-General of Australia.
Justin Hilary O'Byrne, AO (1 June 1912 – 10 November 1993) was a long-serving Australian Labor Party politician who represented Tasmania in the Federal Senate from 1947 to 1981, acting as President of the Senate from 1974 to 1975.
Gruen worked as adviser to Senator and Federal Industry Minister John Button from in the early 1980s and in this time played a major role in the development of the Button car plan, which refined the path by which a complex industry plan was deregulated and tariffs were reduced.
He has lectured on journalism, law, and war at the Australian National Press Club in Canberra, the Australian Senate, City University, London, University of Manchester, Pennsylvania State University, University of California Los Angeles, Stanford University, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Inner Temple, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and to the University of Düsseldorf.
It gained national attention with the election of local accountant Barnaby Joyce to the Australian Senate following the 2004 federal election.
Michael Beahan (born 1937), 19th President of the Australian Senate
David Vigor was born here and was a member of the Australian Senate, representing the Australian Democrats and the Unite Australia Party
Pauline Pantsdown (also known as Simon Hunt), Australian satirist and former Australian Senate candidate