47th Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia | |
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26 July 2022 – present | |
Members | 76 senators 151 representatives |
Senate Leader | Penny Wong, Labor (from 23 May 2022) |
Senate President | Sue Lines, Labor (from 26 July 2022) |
House Leader | Tony Burke, Labor (from 1 June 2022) |
House Speaker | Milton Dick, Labor (from 26 July 2022) |
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1st: 26 July 2022 – present
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The 47th Parliament of Australia is the current meeting of the legislative body of the Commonwealth of Australia, composed of the Australian Senate and the Australian House of Representatives. The May 2022 federal election gave the Australian Labor Party control of the House. Labor won 77 seats at the election, and it gained an additional seat in April 2023 due to winning the Aston by-election, giving it a three-seat majority government.[1] Labor leader Anthony Albanese became the 31st Prime Minister of Australia, and was sworn in by the Governor-General David Hurley on 23 May 2022.[2] The 47th Parliament opened in Canberra on 26 July 2022.[3]
Candidate | State | Votes | % | |
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Sue Lines | Western Australia | 54 | 81.82 | |
Dorinda Cox | Western Australia | 12 | 18.18 | |
66 | 100 |
Candidate | Seat | Votes | % | |
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Milton Dick | Oxley (Qld) | 92 | 62.16 | |
Andrew Wallace | Fisher (Qld) | 56 | 37.84 | |
148 | 100 |
Affiliation | Party (shading shows control) |
Total | Vacant | |||||||
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GRN | ALP | IND | CA | LPA | NPA | KAP | UAP | |||
End of previous Parliament | 1 | 68 | 4 | 1 | 60 | 15 | 1 | 1 | 151 | 0 |
Begin (26 July 2022) | 4 | 77 | 10 | 1 | 42 | 16 | 1 | — | 151 | 0 |
23 December 2022[b] | 11 | 15 | ||||||||
17 February 2023[c] | 41 | 150 | 1 | |||||||
1 April 2023[c] | 78 | 151 | 0 | |||||||
18 May 2023[d] | 40 | 150 | 1 | |||||||
15 July 2023[d] | 41 | 151 | 0 | |||||||
14 November 2023[e] | 12 | 40 | 151 | 0 | ||||||
4 December 2023[f] | 77 | 150 | 1 | |||||||
28 February 2024[g] | 39 | 149 | 2 | |||||||
2 March 2024[f] | 78 | 150 | 1 | |||||||
13 April 2024[g] | 40 | 151 | 0 | |||||||
Latest voting share % | 2.65 | 51.66 | 7.95 | 0.66 | 36.42 | 0.66 | — |
Affiliation | Party (shading shows control) |
Total | Vacant | ||||||||||
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GRN | ALP | IND | CA | REX | JLN | LPA | NPA | LDP | ON | UAP | |||
End of previous Parliament | 9 | 26 | — | 1 | 1 | 1 | 31 | 4 | 1 | 2 | — | 76 | 0 |
Begin (26 July 2022) | 12 | 26 | 1 | — | 2 | 26 | 6 | — | 2 | 1 | 76 | 0 | |
16 January 2023[h] | 25 | 75 | 1 | ||||||||||
6 February 2023[i] | 11 | 2 | |||||||||||
31 May 2023[h] | 26 | 76 | 0 | ||||||||||
17 June 2023[j] | 3 | 25 | |||||||||||
30 September 2023[k] | 24 | 75 | 1 | ||||||||||
30 November 2023[k] | 25 | 76 | 0 | ||||||||||
26 January 2024[l] | 25 | 75 | 1 | ||||||||||
1 February 2024[l] | 26 | 76 | 0 | ||||||||||
29 February 2024[m] | 25 | 75 | 1 | ||||||||||
28 March 2024[n] | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
19 April 2024[o] | 10 | 74 | 2 | ||||||||||
1 May 2024[o] | 11 | 75 | 1 | ||||||||||
29 May 2024[m] | 26 | 76 | 0 | ||||||||||
4 July 2024[p] | 25 | 5 | |||||||||||
Latest voting share % | 14.47 | 32.89 | 6.58 | — | 1.32 | 40.79 | — | 2.63 | 1.32 |
The 47th Parliament of Australia has a historically high representation of women; women make up 38% of the House of Representatives and 57% of the Senate, the highest on record for both chambers.[35] In terms of representation, Indigenous members will account for 9.6 per cent of the 76 Senate seats, and 1.9 per cent of 151 House of Representatives seats.[36]
The Senate included 32 men and 44 women, the most women to date.
There are 58 women in the House, the largest number in history.[37] Three current members are LGBTQ+ — Stephen Bates,[38] Angie Bell[39] and Julian Hill.[40] Four members; Mark Dreyfus, Josh Burns,[41] Mike Freelander and Julian Leeser identified as Jewish. Labor members — Ed Husic and Anne Aly — became the first two Muslim federal ministers.[42]
40 of the 76 seats in the upper house were contested in the election in May 2022. The class of senators elected in 2022 are denoted with an asterisk (*).
All 151 seats in the lower house were contested in the election in May 2022.
This table lists senators who have resigned, died, been elected or appointed, or otherwise changed their party affiliation during the 47th Parliament.
Seat | Before | Change | After | ||||||
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Member | Party | Type | Date | Date | Member | Party | |||
New South Wales | Jim Molan | Liberal | Death | 16 January 2023 | 31 May 2023 | Maria Kovacic | Liberal | ||
Victoria | Lidia Thorpe | Greens | Resignation from party | 6 February 2023 | Lidia Thorpe | Independent | |||
Victoria | David Van | Liberal | Expulsion from party room | 15 June 2023 | David Van | Independent | |||
New South Wales | Marise Payne | Liberal | Resignation | 30 September 2023 | 30 November 2023 | Dave Sharma | Liberal | ||
Western Australia | Pat Dodson | Labor | Resignation | 26 January 2024 | 1 February 2024 | Varun Ghosh | Labor | ||
Victoria | Linda White | Labor | Death | 29 February 2024 | 29 May 2024 | Lisa Darmanin | Labor | ||
Tasmania | Tammy Tyrrell | Lambie | Resignation from party | 28 March 2024 | Tammy Tyrrell | Independent | |||
Victoria | Janet Rice | Greens | Resignation | 19 April 2024 | 1 May 2024 | Steph Hodgins-May | Greens | ||
Western Australia | Fatima Payman | Labor | Resignation from party | 4 July 2024 | Fatima Payman | Independent |
This table lists members of the House who have resigned, died, been elected or appointed, or otherwise changed their party affiliation during the 47th Parliament.
Seat | Before | Change | After | ||||||
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Member | Party | Type | Date | Date | Member | Party | |||
Calare | Andrew Gee | National | Resignation from party | 23 December 2022 | Andrew Gee | Independent | |||
Aston | Alan Tudge | Liberal | Resignation | 17 February 2023 | 1 April 2023 | Mary Doyle | Labor | ||
Fadden | Stuart Robert | Liberal National | Resignation | 18 May 2023 | 15 July 2023 | Cameron Caldwell | Liberal National | ||
Monash | Russell Broadbent | Liberal | Resignation from party | 14 November 2023 | Russell Broadbent | Independent | |||
Dunkley | Peta Murphy | Labor | Death | 4 December 2023 | 2 March 2024 | Jodie Belyea | Labor | ||
Cook | Scott Morrison | Liberal | Resignation | 28 February 2024 | 13 April 2024 | Simon Kennedy | Liberal |
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