{{efn|name=CLP|[[Nigel Scullion]], Senator for the Northern Territory, sits as the sole representative of the [[Country Liberal Party]], the local equivalent of both the National and Liberal parties. He sits in the National party room and serves as the National Party leader in the Senate.}}
{{efn|name=CLP|[[Nigel Scullion]], Senator for the Northern Territory, sits as the sole representative of the [[Country Liberal Party]], the local equivalent of both the National and Liberal parties. He sits in the National party room and serves as the National Party leader in the Senate.}}
{{efn|name=Ludlam|[[Scott Ludlam]] resigned on 14 July 2017 after realising he held New Zealand citizenship, due to legal advice that he was ineligible to be a senator under [[Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia]].}}
{{efn|name=Ludlam|[[Scott Ludlam]] resigned on 14 July 2017 after realising he held New Zealand citizenship, due to legal advice that he was ineligible to be a senator under [[Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia]].}}
{{efn|name=Waters|[[Larissa Waters]] resigned on 18 July 2017 after realising she held Canadian citizenship, due to legal advice that he was ineligible to be a senator under [[Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia]].}}
{{efn|name=Waters|[[Larissa Waters]] resigned on 18 July 2017 after realising she held Canadian citizenship, due to legal advice that she was ineligible to be a senator under [[Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia]].}}
{{efn|name=Back|Western Australian Liberal Senator [[Chris Back]] resigned on 31 July 2017. [[Slade Brockman]] was appointed as his replacement on 16 August 2017.}}
{{efn|name=Back|Western Australian Liberal Senator [[Chris Back]] resigned on 31 July 2017. [[Slade Brockman]] was appointed as his replacement on 16 August 2017.}}
{{efn|name=Xeno|South Australian Senator and [[Nick Xenophon Team]] leader [[Nick Xenophon]] resigned from the Senate on 31 October 2017.}}
{{efn|name=Xeno|South Australian Senator and [[Nick Xenophon Team]] leader [[Nick Xenophon]] resigned from the Senate on 31 October 2017.}}
^On 27 October 2017, the High Court ruled that Greens Senators Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters, One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts, and Nationals Senator Fiona Nash were ineligible to sit in parliament under Section 44 of the Australian Constitution due to holding foreign citizenship. Ludlam and Waters had already resigned in July when they discovered their foreign citizenship. Their replacements will be determined by a recount, which in practice virtually assures the next candidate on the previous election's Senate ticket for the same party fills the vacancy, although the National Fiona Nash would be replaced by the Liberal Hollie Hughes due to the coalition running a joint ticket in the New South Wales Senate.[1]
This is a list of members of the Australian Senate following the 2016 double dissolution election on 2 July 2016. All 76 senators were elected due to the election being the result of a double dissolution, and not an ordinary half-senate election. The terms of half of the senators representing each of the six states of Australia were allocated six-year terms ending on 30 June 2022 with the remainder allocated three-year terms ending on 30 June 2019. The terms of senators from the States can only be truncated if another double dissolution election is called. The terms of senators from the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory end on the next dissolution of the House of Representatives.
In accordance with section 13 of the Constitution,[2] it was left to the Senate to decide which Senators were allocated the full six-year terms ending on 30 June 2022 and which Senators were allocated three-year terms ending on 30 June 2019. The senate resolved that the first elected six of twelve Senators in each state would serve six-year terms, while the last six elected in each state would serve three-year terms. This was the Senate practice on the seven previous occasions that have required allocation of long and short terms.[3] In 1983 the Joint Select Committee on Electoral Reform had unanimously recommended an alternative "recount" method to reflect proportional representation,[4] and section 282 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act was inserted to provide for a recount on that basis.[5] This alternative method had been supported by both Labor and the Coalition in bipartisan senate resolutions passed in 1998[6] and 2010.[7][8][3][9] Despite this, an agreement between Liberal's Mathias Cormann and Labor's Penny Wong led the Senate to choose the method that awarded longer, six year terms to Labor's Deborah O'Neill and Liberal's Scott Ryan at the expense of The Greens' Lee Rhiannon and the Justice Party's Derryn Hinch being allocated shorter, three year terms.[10][11][12]
^ abcThese members of the Liberal National Party (Queensland) sit in the Liberal party room.
^ abThese members of the Liberal National Party (Queensland) sit in the National party room.
^ abVictorian Labor Senator Stephen Conroy resigned on 30 September 2016. Kimberley Kitching was appointed as his replacement on 25 October 2016.
^ abWestern Australian Rod Culleton was declared bankrupt by the Federal Court of Australia on 11 January 2017, and as such was disqualified from being a Senator. The High Court subsequently held he was "incapable of being chosen" as a Senator as he was awaiting sentence on a criminal conviction.[13] The High Court had previously held that the presence of a person whose election was void did not invalidate the proceedings of the Senate.[14] Culleton's seat was filled by a recount, and on 10 March 2017 the High Court declared Peter Georgiou to be elected to the vacancy.
^Culleton resigned from the One Nation party on 18 December 2016.[15]
^ abSouth Australian Family First Senator Bob Day resigned on 1 November 2016. The High Court held on 5 April 2017 that Day was "incapable of being chosen" as a Senator as he had an indirect interest in an agreement with the Commonwealth.[16] The High Court had previously held that the presence of a person whose election was void did not invalidate the proceedings of the Senate.[14] Day's seat was filled by a recount, and Lucy Gichuhi was declared elected on 19 April 2017.[17] On 26 April 2017, Family First merged with the Australian Conservatives—with Gichuhi declining to join the new party, she became an independent.[18]
^ abcdThe terms of senators from the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory end on the next dissolution of the House of Representatives.
^ abcdOn 27 October 2017, the High Court of Australiaruled that Greens Senator Scott Ludlam, One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts, Nationals Senator Fiona Nash and Greens Senator Larissa Waters were held to be "incapable of being chosen" as Senators because they held foreign citizenship.[19] The High Court had previously held that the presence of a person whose election was void did not invalidate the proceedings of the Senate.[14] Their seats will be filled by a recount.[1]
^Nigel Scullion, Senator for the Northern Territory, sits as the sole representative of the Country Liberal Party, the local equivalent of both the National and Liberal parties. He sits in the National party room and serves as the National Party leader in the Senate.
