Tasmania

Senators for Tasmania

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 Tasmania. 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.

Senator the Hon. Eric Abetz

Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 22nd February 1994. Has a personal website.

Eric Abetz (born 25 January 1958 in Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany), has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since February 1994, representing the state of Tasmania. He is currently Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. He was educated at the University of Tasmania and was a barrister and solicitor before entering politics. He was Tasmanian State President of...

Senator Guy Barnett

Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 26th February 2002. Has a personal website.

Guy Barnett (born 4 April 1962), has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since February 2002, representing the state of Tasmania. He was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and was educated at the University of Tasmania. He was a lawyer before entering politics. He was Senior Adviser to the Premier of Tasmania, Robin Gray 1988-89. Barnett has conservative stances on stem cell...

Senator Catryna Bilyk

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

Catryna Louise Bilyk (born 7 February 1959) is an Australian politician. She has been a Labor member of the Australian Senate since July 2008, representing the state of Tasmania. Bilyk was elected to serve a six-year term in the Senate at the 2007 federal election, after being placed in the third position on the Australian Labor Party's Tasmanian ticket. She was elected to the sixth Senate...

Senator Carol Brown

Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 25th August 2005. Does not have a personal website.

Carol Louise Brown (born 19 July 1963), Australian politician, has been an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate, representing the state of Tasmania, since 25 August 2005. She was appointed by the Tasmanian Parliament to the casual vacancy created by the resignation of Senator Sue Mackay, as required by section 15 of the Australian Constitution. Brown comes from a family with...

Senator Bob Brown

Australian Greens Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 1996. Has a personal website.

Bob Brown was elected to the Senate in 1996, after 10 years as an MHA in Tasmania's parliament. In his first Senate speech, Bob raised the threat posed by climate change. Other members laughed at his warning of sea level rises. Bob has continued to take a courageous, and often politically lonely, stand on issues across the national and international spectrum. Some of the many issues Bob has...

Senator David Bushby

Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 30th August 2007. Has a personal website.

David Christopher Bushby (born July 17, 1965), Australian politician, a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since August 2007, representing the state of Tasmania. In May 2007, Bushby was preselected for Tasmanian Liberal Senate ticket in the number two position ahead of the 2007 election. Consequently, Bushby appeared destined to enter the federal parliament at the beginning of the next...

Senator the Hon. Richard Colbeck

Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 4th February 2002. Does not have a personal website.

Richard Mansell Colbeck (born 5 April 1958), Australian politician, has been a Liberal member of the Australian Senate since 4th February 2002, representing Tasmania. He was born in Myrtleford, Victoria, and was educated at Devonport Technical College. He was a Building estimator and supervisor, managing director and proprietor of a building consultancy before entering politics. He is married...

Senator Christine Milne

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

Christine Anne Milne is an Australian Senator from the Australian Greens. She was first elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in 1989 as a member of the Tasmanian Greens in the electorate of Lyons, one of five Green politicians elected at that election. She was part of the Labor-Green Accord, a political agreement between the Australian Labor Party and the Tasmanian Greens to form...

Senator Kerry O'Brien

Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 5th September 1996. Does not have a personal website.

Kerry Williams Kelso O'Brien (born 19 July 1951) has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania since September 1996, representing the Australian Labor Party. O'Brien was an Opposition Whip in the Senate 1998-2001, and has been a member of the Opposition Shadow Ministry since November 2001. He was Shadow Minister for Primary Industries and Shadow Minister for Resources...

Senator Stephen Parry

Liberal Party Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 2005. Does not have a personal website.

Stephen Shane Parry (born 31 October 1960), Australian politician, has been a Liberal Party member of the Australian Senate since July 2005, representing the state of Tasmania. He was elected Government Deputy Whip in the Senate in November 2006 and elected Government Whip in April 2007 in succession to the late Senator Jeannie Ferris. In 2004, as a member of the Liberal Party of Australia,...

Senator Helen Polley

Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 2005. Has a personal website.

Helen Beatrice Polley (February 9, 1957) is an Australian Labor Party Senator for the state of Tasmania, since July 1, 2005. Before entering the federal government Polley was an advisor to two Labor Premiers of Tasmania; Jim Bacon and Paul Lennon. She was elected to the Senate in 2004 and her term began in 2005. This biography has been adapted from Wikipedia. If you are, or work for this...

Senator the Hon. Nick Sherry

Australian Labor Party Senator for Tasmania
Entered the Senate on the 1st July 1990. Does not have a personal website.

Nicholas John Sherry (born 19 November 1955), Australian politician, has been a member of the Australian Senate for the state of Tasmania since July 1990, representing the Australian Labor Party. Elected to the Senate in 1990, Sherry was Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Primary Industries and Energy in the Keating government 1993-1996. After the defeat of the Keating government, he...

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