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Members of the Australian Senate, 1904–1906

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Senate composition at 1 January 1904
  Protectionist (8)

  Labour (14)

  Anti-Socialist (12)

  Tariff Reform (1)

  Independent (1)

This is a list of members of the Australian Senate from 1904 to 1906.[1] Half of its members were elected at the March 1901 election and had terms deemed to start on 1 January 1901 and finishing on 31 December 1906; the other half were elected at the 16 December 1903 election and had terms starting on 1 January 1904 and finishing on 30 June 1910, extended as a result of the 1906 referendum, which changed Senate terms to finish on 30 June, rather than 31 December.[2] Parties reflect those acknowledged at the time of the 1904 election[a]

Senator Party State Term ending Years in office
Sir Richard Baker   Free Trade South Australia 31 December 1906 1901–1906
Robert Best   Protectionist Victoria 30 June 1910 1901–1910
John Clemons   Free Trade Tasmania 31 December 1906 1901–1914
John Croft   Labour Western Australia 30 June 1910 1904–1910
Anderson Dawson   Labour Queensland 31 December 1906 1901–1906
Hugh de Largie   Labour Western Australia 30 June 1910 1901–1923
Henry Dobson   Tariff Reform Tasmania 30 June 1910 1901–1910
James Drake   Protectionist Queensland 31 December 1906 1901–1906
Edward Findley   Labour Victoria 30 June 1910 1904–1917, 1923–1929
Simon Fraser   Protectionist Victoria 31 December 1906 1901–1913
Thomas Givens   Labour Queensland 30 June 1910 1904–1928
Albert Gould   Free Trade New South Wales 31 December 1906 1901–1917
John Gray   Free Trade New South Wales 30 June 1910 1904–1910
Robert Guthrie   Labour South Australia 30 June 1910 1904–1921
George Henderson   Labour Western Australia 30 June 1910 1904–1923
William Higgs   Labour Queensland 31 December 1906 1901–1906
John Keating   Protectionist Tasmania 31 December 1906 1901–1923
James Macfarlane   Free Trade Tasmania 30 June 1910 1901–1910
Alexander Matheson   Free Trade Western Australia 31 December 1906 1901–1906
Gregor McGregor   Labour South Australia 30 June 1910 1901–1914
Edward Millen   Free Trade New South Wales 31 December 1906 1901–1923
Edward Mulcahy   Protectionist Tasmania 30 June 1910 1904–1910, 1919–1920
John Neild   Free Trade New South Wales 30 June 1910 1901–1910
David O'Keefe   Labour Tasmania 31 December 1906 1901–1906, 1910–1920
George Pearce   Labour Western Australia 31 December 1906 1901–1938
Thomas Playford   Protectionist South Australia 31 December 1906 1901–1906
Edward Pulsford   Free Trade New South Wales 30 June 1910 1901–1910
Staniforth Smith   Free Trade Western Australia 31 December 1906 1901–1906
James Stewart   Labour Queensland 30 June 1910 1901–1917
William Story   Labour South Australia 30 June 1910 1904–1917
James Styles   Protectionist Victoria 31 December 1906 1901–1906
Sir Josiah Symon   Free Trade South Australia 31 December 1906 1901–1913
William Trenwith   Independent [b] Victoria 30 June 1910 1904–1910
Harry Turley   Labour Queensland 30 June 1910 1904–1917
James Walker   Free Trade New South Wales 31 December 1906 1901–1913
Sir William Zeal   Protectionist Victoria 31 December 1906 1901–1906

Notes

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  1. ^ Prior to the 1906 election the Free Trade Party renamed itself the Anti-Socialist Party.
  2. ^ William Trenwith, was a former trade union official and leader of the Victorian Labour Party who was an independent because of his refusal to pledge to vote as directed by the Labour Party.[3]

References

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  1. ^ "The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate 1904". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
  2. ^ Constitution Alteration (Senate Elections) 1906 (Cth).
  3. ^ Scates, B. "Trenwith, William Arthur (Billy) (1846–1925)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 25 February 2017.