Members of the Australian Senate, 1904–1906

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

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

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. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 25 February 2017.

• Journals of the Senate. Parliament of Australia. 1904.
• . Parliamentary Handbook. Parliament of Australia. Archived from the original on 25 July 2008. Retrieved 13 December 2008.