- Members of the Parliament of Australia who have served for at least 30 years
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This is a list of Members of the Parliament of Australia who have served for at least 30 years.
Their service does not need to be continuous; broken terms are aggregated.
All these periods of service were spent in one House exclusively. A number of people have served in both the Senate and the House of Representatives[1], but none of them to date has had an aggregate length of service to the Parliament reaching 30 years.
Those who were Father of the Senate or Father of the House of Representatives are shown. A Father of either House is the person currently serving who has served longer, continuously, than any other currently serving member of that House. Where two or more people have equal lengths of continuous service, more than any other people, they are called joint Fathers. The more senior of the Father of the House and the Father of the Senate is the Father of the Parliament. Only those Fathers who served for 30 years or more will appear in this list.
Contents
Members of the Parliament who have served for at least 30 years
Name Chamber Start of service End of service Period of service Continuous
serviceFather of the
Senate/HouseFather of the
ParliamentBilly Hughes House of Reps 30 March 1901 28 October 1952 51 years, 213 days Yes 1935-52 1938-52 Sir Earle Page House of Reps 13 December 1919 9 December 1961 41 years, 362 days Yes 1952-61 1952-61 Philip Ruddock House of Reps 22 September 1973 currently serving 38 years, 39 days Yes Father since 1998 Father since 1998 Sir George Pearce Senate 29 March 1901 30 June 1938 37 years, 94 days Yes 1923-38 No Sir Walter Cooper Senate 17 November 1928
1 July 193530 June 1932
30 June 196836 years, 227 days No 1965-68 No William Maloney House of Reps 30 March 1904 27 August 1940 36 years, 151 days Yes No No Sir John McEwen House of Reps 15 September 1934 1 February 1971 36 years, 139 days Yes Joint Father 1963-69
Father 1969-71Joint Father 1965-69
Father 1969-71Norman Makin House of Reps 13 December 1919
29 May 195414 August 1946
1 November 196336 years, 37 days No No No Frank Brennan House of Reps 8 February 1911
15 September 193419 December 1931
31 October 194935 years, 362 days No No No Joe Clark House of Reps 15 September 1934 29 September 1969 35 years, 15 days Yes Joint Father 1963-69 Joint Father 1965-69 Ian Sinclair House of Reps 30 November 1963 31 August 1998 34 years, 275 days Yes 1990-98 1990-98 David Watkins House of Reps 29 March 1901 8 April 1935 34 years, 11 days Yes No No Justin O'Byrne Senate 1 July 1947 30 June 1981 34 years, 0 days Yes Joint Father 1968-71
Father 1971-811977-81 John Howard House of Reps 18 May 1974 24 November 2007 33 years, 191 days Yes No No Alan Cadman House of Reps 18 May 1974 17 October 2007 33 years, 152 days Yes No No Gordon Brown Senate 1 July 1932 30 June 1965 33 years, 0 days Yes Joint Father 1947-50
Father 1950-651963-65 Sir Littleton Groom House of Reps 14 September 1901
19 December 193112 October 1929
6 November 193632 years, 353 days No No No Sir Josiah Francis House of Reps 16 December 1922 4 November 1955 32 years, 324 days Yes No No Harold Holt House of Reps 17 August 1935 19 December 1967[2] 32 years, 125 days Yes No No Eddie Ward House of Reps 7 March 1931
6 February 193219 December 1931
31 July 196332 years, 99 days No 1961-63 1961-63 Kim Beazley, Sr. House of Reps 18 August 1945 10 November 1977 32 years, 85 days Yes 1975-77 1975-77 Fred Daly House of Reps 21 August 1943 11 November 1975 32 years, 83 days Yes 1972-75 1972-75 Arthur Calwell House of Reps 21 September 1940 2 November 1972 32 years, 43 days Yes 1971-72 1971-72 Sir William McMahon House of Reps 10 December 1949 4 January 1982 32 years, 26 days Yes Joint Father 1977-80
Father 1980-821981-82 Patrick Lynch Senate 1 January 1907 30 June 1938 31 years, 181 days Yes No No Sir Robert Menzies House of Reps 15 September 1934 17 February 1966 31 years, 156 days Yes Joint Father 1963-66 Joint Father 1965-66 Tom Uren House of Reps 22 November 1958 19 February 1990 31 years, 90 days Yes 1984-90 1984-90 James Scullin House of Reps 13 April 1910
18 February 192231 May 1913
31 October 194930 years, 304 days No No No Clyde Cameron House of Reps 10 December 1949 19 September 1980 30 years, 285 days Yes Joint Father 1977-80 No David Jull House of Reps 13 December 1975
1 December 19845 March 1983
17 October 200730 years, 39 days No No No Hubert Lazzarini House of Reps 13 December 1919
15 September 193419 December 1931
1 October 195230 years, 24 days No No No Thomas Crawford Senate 1 July 1917 30 June 1947 30 years, 0 days Yes Joint Father 1938-47 No Harry Foll Senate 1 July 1917 30 June 1947 30 years, 0 days Yes Joint Father 1938-47 No John Watson Senate 1 July 1978 30 June 2008 30 years, 0 days Yes 2005-08 No Sources
See also
- People who have served in both Houses of the Australian Parliament
References
- ^ Handbook of the 42nd Parliament: Members who have served in both chambers
- ^ While Harold Holt has since been deemed to have legally died on 17 December 1967, he was not declared presumed dead until 19 December and he is considered to have served until that date, as both a member and as Prime Minister.
Categories:- Lists of legislators in Australia
- Senior legislators
- Members of the Parliament of Australia
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