Western Australia

Senators for Western Australia

Each of these Senators represents you - and the whole State. That means each of them is directly responsible to you and the other voters of Western Australia. We've made it easier to keep in contact with them, follow them in the media and the parliament, and make your own comments on their performances.

Click on any Senator below to find out more about them, or look in the sidebar for statewide news and blogposts.

Judith Adams

Senator Judith Adams

Liberal Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 2005. Has a personal website.

Judith Anne Adams (born 11 April 1943), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing Western Australia. She was born in Picton, New Zealand, and was a trained nurse and midwife experienced in health care policy. She is a Councilor of the Healthcare Association of Western Australia; Councilor, Australian Healthcare Association;...

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Christopher Back

Senator Christopher Back

Liberal Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 1993. Does not have a personal website.

Christopher Martin Ellison (born 15 June 1954), an Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1993, representing Western Australia. He was born in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), and was educated at the University of Western Australia, where he gained a law degree. Ellison was Minister for Customs and Consumer Affairs and Minister...

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Mark Bishop

Senator Mark Bishop

Australian Labor Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 1996. Has a personal website.

Thomas Mark Bishop (born 29 June 1954), has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Western Australia since July 1996. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia and was educated at the University of Adelaide and Harvard University. He was an industrial officer and union secretary before entering politics. Bishop has been Shadow Minister for...

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Michaelia Cash

Senator Michaelia Cash

Liberal Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 2008. Does not have a personal website.

Michaelia Clare Cash (born 19 July 1970) has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia. Cash was first elected to parliament at the 2007 federal election. Since entering Federal Parliament Senator Cash has been elected to the Senate Standing Committee on Education, Employment and Workplace Relations and the Joint...

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Mathias Cormann

Senator Mathias Cormann

Liberal Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 19th June 2007. Has a personal website.

Mathias Hubert Paul Cormann (born 20 September 1970) is a Liberal Party of Australia Senator for Western Australia. Born in Eupen, Belgium, Cormann migrated to Perth, Western Australia in 1996, and with his Belgian law degree from the Flemish Katholieke Universiteit Leuven He was elected ito the Senate in 2007. This biography has been adapted from Wikipedia. If you are, or work for this...

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Alan Eggleston

Senator Alan Eggleston

Liberal Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 1996. Has a personal website.

Dr Alan Eggleston (born 30 December 1941), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 1996, representing Western Australia. He was born in Busselton, Western Australia, and was educated at the University of Western Australia, where he studied medicine, and at Murdoch University, where he graduated in arts. He was a medical practitioner in Port Hedland,...

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Christopher Evans

Senator the Hon. Christopher Evans

Australian Labor Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 1993. Does not have a personal website.

Christopher Vaughan Evans (born 14 May 1958), is an Australian politician and a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Western Australia, representing the Australian Labor Party. He is the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship and Leader of the Government in the Senate in the First Rudd Ministry since the 2007 federal election. Evans was born in Cuckfield, England. He was educated...

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David Johnston

Senator the Hon. David Johnston

Liberal Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 2002. Does not have a personal website.

David Albert Lloyd Johnston (born 14 February 1956), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since July 2002, representing the state of Western Australia. Johnston was born in Perth and was educated at University of Western Australia, where he graduated in law. He was a barrister in Kalgoorlie before entering politics. On 6 March 2006, Johnston was made...

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Scott Ludlam

Senator Scott Ludlam

Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 2008. Does not have a personal website.

Scott Ludlam is an Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia. He was elected in the November 2007 federal election when over one million Australians put five Australian Greens in the Senate, giving the Greens official party status and the shared balance of power. Senator Ludlam is the fifth Greens Senator Western Australian voters have sent to Canberra, the first being Jo Vallentine in...

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Louise Pratt

Senator Louise Pratt

Australian Labor Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 2008. Does not have a personal website.

Louise Clare Pratt (born April 18, 1972) has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Western Australia. She was the youngest woman ever elected to the Legislative Council at the time of her election, and was the second openly lesbian woman to be elected to an Australian parliament. Pratt resigned from her WA Legislative Council seat in October...

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Rachel Siewert

Senator Rachel Siewert

Australian Greens Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 2005. Has a personal website.

Before being elected to the Senate in 2005, as the fourth in a line of strong Green women Senators from the West, Senator Rachel Siewert spent sixteen years as the Executive Officer of the Conservation Council of WA and played a role in a number of national and state forums tackling pressing environmental and social justice issues. Coming from this NGO background, Rachel has been a key advocate...

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Glenn Sterle

Senator Glenn Sterle

Australian Labor Party Senator for Western Australia
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 2005. Does not have a personal website.

Glenn Sterle (born January 3, 1960) has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate since 2005, representing the state of Western Australia. Sterle's involvement joined the Australian Labor Party in 1991, and in 1999, he was elected as a delegate to the party's state conference. He served as the ALP's transport policy convener in 2000, and was a delegate to the party's...

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