The following is a list of members of the Australian Parliament who died in office.
Member | Party | State |
Date of death | Age at death | Cause | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Frederick Thomas Sargood | Free Trade | Victoria | 2 January 1903[1] | 68 | ||
William Russell | Labor | South Australia | 28 June 1912 | 69 | Heart disease[2] | |
Gregor McGregor | Labor | South Australia | 13 August 1914 | 65 | Heart disease[3] | |
Robert Guthrie | Nationalist | South Australia | 20 January 1921 | 63 | Struck by a tram[4] | |
John Adamson | Nationalist | Queensland | 2 May 1922 | 65 | Fell in front of a train in possible suicide[5] | |
Thomas Bakhap | Nationalist | Tasmania | 18 August 1923 | 56 | ||
Edward Millen | Nationalist | New South Wales | 14 September 1923 | 62 | Chronic nephritis[6] | |
Stephen Barker | Labor | Victoria | 21 June 1924[7] | 77-78 | ||
Allan McDougall | Labor | New South Wales | 14 October 1924 | 67 | Diabetes[8] | |
Jack Power | Labor | New South Wales | 13 January 1925[9] | 41 | ||
Edward Russell | Nationalist | Victoria | 18 July 1925 | 46 | Brain disease[10] | |
James O'Loghlin | Labor | South Australia | 4 December 1925 | 73 | Tuberculosis[11] | |
Charles McHugh | Labor | South Australia | 24 July 1927 | 40 | Pneumonia[12] | |
John Grant | Labor | New South Wales | 19 May 1928[13] | 70-71 | ||
Thomas Givens | Nationalist | Queensland | 19 June 1928 | 64 | Heart disease[14] | |
David Andrew | Country | Victoria | 19 November 1928 | 62 | ||
John Chapman | Labor | South Australia | 14 March 1931 | 51 | ||
Harold Edward Elliott | Nationalist | Victoria | 23 March 1931 | 52 | Suicide caused by post-traumatic stress disorder[15] | |
James Ogden | United Australia | Tasmania | 5 February 1932[16] | 63 | ||
John Newlands | United Australia | South Australia | 20 May 1932[17] | 67 | ||
Walter Kingsmill | United Australia | Western Australia | 15 January 1935 | 70 | Coronary occlusion[18] | |
Lionel Courtenay | United Australia | New South Wales | 11 July 1935[19] | 55 | ||
William Carroll | Country | Western Australia | 30 May 1936[20] | 64 | ||
John MacDonald | Labor | Queensland | 17 August 1937 | 57 | Heart disease[21] | |
John Barnes | Labor | Victoria | 31 January 1938 | 69 | Cancer | |
Bertie Johnston | Country | Western Australia | 6 September 1942 | 62 | Drowning[22] | |
James Cunningham | Labor | Western Australia | 4 July 1943[23] | 63 | ||
Richard Keane | Labor | Victoria | 26 April 1946 | 65 | Heart disease[24] | |
Richard Nash | Labor | Western Australia | 12 December 1951 | 61 | Heart attack[25] | |
Edmund Piesse | Country | Western Australia | 25 August 1952 | 62 | Suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning[26] | |
Jack Chamberlain | Liberal | Tasmania | 16 January 1953[27] | 68 | ||
George McLeay | Liberal | South Australia | 14 September 1955 | 63 | Ischemic heart disease[28] | |
Jack Devlin | Labor | Victoria | 26 May 1957[29] | 57 | ||
Bill Ashley | Labor | New South Wales | 27 June 1958 | 76 | Stroke[30] | |
Harrie Seward | Country | Western Australia | 23 July 1958[31] | 74 | ||
Rex Pearson | Liberal | South Australia | 11 September 1961 | 56 | ||
Albert Reid | Country | Queensland | 22 May 1962 | 76 | Heart attack[32] | |
Max Poulter | Labor | Queensland | 2 September 1962[33] | 49 | ||
Seddon Vincent | Liberal | Western Australia | 9 November 1964 | 56 | ||
Harrie Wade | Country | Victoria | 18 November 1964 | 59 | Heart attack[34] | |
Shane Paltridge | Liberal | Western Australia | 21 January 1966 | 56 | Cancer[35] | |
Bob Sherrington | Liberal | Queensland | 16 March 1966 | 64 | ||
Charles Sandford | Labor | Victoria | 22 October 1966 | 71 | ||
Clive Hannaford | Independent | South Australia | 24 October 1967[36] | 64 | ||
Keith Laught | Liberal | South Australia | 13 May 1969 | 61 | ||
Sam Cohen | Labor | Victoria | 7 October 1969 | 50 | Heart attack | |
Colin McKellar | Country | New South Wales | 13 April 1970 | 66 | Coronary heart disease | |
James Ormonde | Labor | New South Wales | 30 November 1970 | 67 | ||
Bertie Milliner | Labor | Queensland | 30 June 1975 | 63 | Heart attack | |
Ivor Greenwood | Liberal | Victoria | 13 October 1976 | 49 | Heart attack | |
John Knight | Liberal | Australian Capital Territory | 4 March 1981 | 37 | Heart attack | |
Alan Missen | Liberal | Victoria | 30 March 1986 | 60 | Heart attack[37] | |
Olive Zakharov | Labor | Victoria | 6 March 1995[38] | 65 | Struck by a car | |
John Panizza | Liberal | Western Australia | 31 January 1997 | 65 | ||
Jeannie Ferris | Liberal | South Australia | 1 April 2007 | 66 | Ovarian cancer[39] | |
Judith Adams | Liberal | Western Australia | 31 March 2012 | 68 | Breast cancer[40] | |
Alex Gallacher | Labor | South Australia | 29 August 2021 | 67 | Lung cancer[41] | |
Kimberley Kitching | Labor | Victoria | 10 March 2022[42] | 52 | Heart attack (suspected) | |
Jim Molan | Liberal | New South Wales | 16 January 2023 | 72 | Cancer[43] | |
Linda White | Labor | Victoria | 29 February 2024 | 63-64 | Cancer[44] |
Member | Party | State/Division |
Date of death | Age at death | Cause | |
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William Henry Groom | Protectionist | Queensland (Darling Downs) |
8 August 1901 | 68 | Bronchial catarrh, heart failure | |
Frederick William Piesse | Free Trade | Tasmania (Tasmania) |
6 March 1902 | 53 | ||
Edward Braddon | Free Trade | Tasmania (Wilmot) |
2 February 1904 | 74 | ||
Charles Kingston | Protectionist | South Australia (Adelaide) |
11 May 1908 | 57 | Stroke[45] | |
Frederick Holder | Independent | South Australia (Wakefield) |
23 July 1909 | 59 | Cerebral hemorrhage[46] | |
James Hutchison | Labor | South Australia (Hindmarsh) |
6 December 1909 | 50 | Complications from kidney surgery[47] | |
Henry Beard | Labor | Victoria (Batman) |
18 December 1910[48] | 45-46 | Complications from a medical operation | |
George Edwards | Liberal | New South Wales (North Sydney) |
4 February 1911 | 56 | Gas explosion[49] | |
Lee Batchelor | Labor | South Australia (Boothby) |
8 October 1911 | 46 | Heart attack[50] | |
Charlie Frazer | Labor | Western Australia (Kalgoorlie) |
25 November 1913 | 33 | Pneumonia[51] | |
Ernest Roberts | Labor | South Australia (Adelaide) |
2 December 1913 | 45 | Heart disease | |
John Arthur | Labor | Victoria (Bendigo) |
9 December 1914 | 39 | Kidney disease | |
Edward Jolley | Labor | Victoria (Grampians) |
1 January 1915 | 40-41 | Cerebral hemorrhage[52] | |
Robert Howe | Labor | New South Wales (Dalley) |
2 April 1915[53] | 53-54 | ||
Charles Howroyd | Labor | Tasmania (Darwin) |
10 May 1917[54] | 50 | ||
Charles Carty Salmon | Nataionalist | Victoria (Grampians) |
15 September 1917 | 57 | ||
John Forrest | Nationalist | Western Australia (Swan) |
2 September 1918 | 71 | Skin cancer[55] | |
James Chester Manifold | Nationalist | Victoria (Corangamite) |
30 October 1918 | 51 | Pneumonia | |
Albert Palmer | Nationalist | Victoria (Echuca) |
14 August 1919 | 59-60 | Pneumonia[56] | |
Jim Page | Labor | Queensland (Maranoa) |
3 June 1921[57] | 59-60 | ||
T.J. Ryan | Labor | New South Wales (West Sydney) |
1 August 1921 | 45 | Pneumonia | |
Frank Tudor | Labor | Victoria (Yarra) |
10 January 1922[58] | 55 | ||
Austin Chapman | Nationalist | New South Wales (Eden-Monaro) |
12 January 1926 | 61 | Cerebro-vascular disease | |
Herbert Pratten | Nationalist | New South Wales (Parramatta) |
7 May 1928 | 63 | Cerebral hemorrhage | |
Edward Corser | Nationalist | Queensland (Wide Bay) |
31 July 1928[59] | 75-76 | ||
William Lambert | Labor | New South Wales (West Sydney) |
6 September 1928 | 47 | Heart attack[60] | |
William McWilliams | Independent | Tasmania (Franklin) |
22 October 1929 | 73 | Angina pectoris | |
John West | Labor | New South Wales (East Sydney) |
5 February 1931 | 79 | ||
Percy Stewart | Independent | Victoria (Wimmera) |
15 October 1931 | 45 | Pneumonia[61] | |
John Clasby | United Australia | New South Wales (East Sydney) |
15 January 1932 | 40-41 | ||
William Holman | United Australia | New South Wales (Martin) |
5 June 1934 | 62 | ||
Charles McGrath | United Australia | Victoria (Ballaarat) |
21 July 1934 | 61 | ||
David Watkins | Labor | New South Wales (Newcastle) |
8 April 1935 | 69 | Cancer[62] | |
George Maxwell | United Australia | Victoria (Fawkner) |
25 June 1935 | 76 | ||
Darby Riordan | Labor | Queensland (Kennedy) |
15 October 1936 | 50 | Pneumonia[63] | |
Littleton Groom | United Australia | Queensland (Darling Downs) |
6 November 1936 | 69 | Cerebro-vascular disease | |
Charles Hawker | United Australia | South Australia (Wakefield) |
25 October 1938 | 44 | Plane crash[64] | |
Francis Baker | Labor | Queensland (Griffith) |
28 March 1939 | 35-36 | Motor accident[65] | |
Joseph Lyons | United Australia | Tasmania (Wilmot) |
7 April 1939 | 59 | Heart attack[66] | |
Geoffrey Street | United Australia | Victoria (Corangamite) |
13 August 1940 | 46 | Plane crash[67] | |
James Fairbairn | United Australia | Victoria (Flinders) |
13 August 1940 | 43 | Plane crash[67] | |
Henry Gullett | United Australia | Victoria (Henty) |
13 August 1940 | 62 | Plane crash[67] | |
Albert Green | Labor | Western Australia (Kalgoorlie) |
2 October 1940 | 70 | ||
Henry Gregory | Country | Western Australia (Swan) |
15 November 1940[68] | 80 | ||
John Price | United Australia | South Australia (Boothby) |
23 April 1941[69] | 59 | ||
John Curtin | Labor | Western Australia (Fremantle) |
5 July 1945 | 60 | Heart disease[70] | |
Ben Chifley | Labor | New South Wales (Macquarie) |
13 June 1951 | 65 | Heart attack[71] | |
Jim Eggins | Country | New South Wales (Lyne) |
28 January 1952 | 53 | Cerebral disease[72] | |
Rupert Ryan | Liberal | Victoria (Flinders) |
25 August 1952 | 68 | Heart failure | |
Bert Lazzarini | Labor | New South Wales (Werriwa) |
1 October 1952 | 68 | Cerebral hemorrhage | |
Billy Hughes | Liberal | New South Wales (Bradfield) |
28 October 1952[73] | 90 | ||
Sol Rosevear | Labor | New South Wales (Dalley) |
21 March 1953 | 61 | Coronary occlusion | |
Allan McDonald | Liberal | Victoria (Corangamite) |
10 June 1953 | 64 | Cancer | |
Dan Mulcahy | Labor | New South Wales (Lang) |
21 July 1953[74] | 71 | ||
Thomas Treloar | Liberal | New South Wales (Gwydir) |
15 November 1953[75] | 61 | ||
Tom Sheehan | Labor | New South Wales (Cook) |
26 March 1955 | 63 | ||
Billy Davies | Labor | New South Wales (Cunningham) |
17 February 1956 | 71-72 | ||
Archie Cameron | Liberal | South Australia (Barker) |
9 August 1956 | 61 | Heart attack[76] | |
Larry Anthony | Country | New South Wales (Richmond) |
12 July 1957 | 60 | Cerebrovascular disease[77] | |
Harry Bruce | Labor | Queensland (Leichhardt) |
11 October 1958 | 74 | Heart attack[78] | |
Percy Clarey | Labor | Victoria (Bendigo) |
17 May 1960 | 70 | Pneumonia[79] | |
Frank Timson | Liberal | Victoria (Higinbotham) |
16 October 1960[80] | 51 | ||
Alan Bird | Labor | Victoria (Batman) |
21 July 1962 | 55 | ||
Edgar Russell | Labor | South Australia (Grey) |
31 March 1963 | 72 | ||
Eddie Ward | Labor | New South Wales (East Sydney) |
31 July 1963 | 64 | Heart attack[81] | |
Athol Townley | Liberal | Tasmania (Denison) |
24 December 1963[82] | 58 | ||
George Shaw | Country | Queensland (Dawson) |
9 January 1966 | 58 | Cerebral hemorrhage[83] | |
John Cockle | Liberal | New South Wales (Warringah) |
3 August 1966 | 57 | Heart attack[84] | |
George Gray | Country | Queensland (Capricornia) |
2 August 1967 | 63 | Pulmonary edema | |
Harold Holt | Liberal | Victoria (Higgins) |
17 December 1967 | 59 | Disappeared. Presumed drowned[85] | |
Jim Fraser | Labor | Australian Capital Territory (Australian Capital Territory) |
1 April 1970 | 62 | Cancer | |
Wilfrid Kent Hughes | Liberal | Victoria (Chisholm) |
30 July 1970[86] | 75 | ||
Rex Connor | Labor | New South Wales (Cunningham) |
22 August 1977 | 70 | Coronary occlusion | |
Frank Stewart | Labor | New South Wales (Grayndler) |
16 April 1979 | 56 | Heart attack | |
Eric Robinson | Liberal | Queensland (McPherson) |
7 January 1981 | 51 | Heart attack[87] | |
Greg Wilton | Labor | Victoria (Isaacs) |
14 June 2000 | 44 | Suicide[88] | |
Peter Nugent | Liberal | Victoria (Aston) |
24 April 2001[89] | 63 | Heart attack | |
Don Randall | Liberal | Western Australia (Canning) |
21 July 2015 | 62 | Heart attack[90] | |
Peta Murphy | Labor | Victoria (Dunkley) |
4 December 2023 | 50 | Breast Cancer[91] |
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