Panagiotis "Peter" Georgiou (born 13 January 1974) is a former Australian politician, who served as a Senator for

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

between 2017 and 2019. He was the second candidate on the Senate ticket for

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON or ONP), also known as One Nation or One Nation Party, is a right-wing populist political party in Australia. It is led by Pauline Hanson. One Nation had electoral success in the late 1990s, before sufferi ...

party in the 2016 Australian federal election. The lead candidate on the ticket was

Rod Culleton Rodney Norman Culleton (born 5 June 1964) is an Australian politician who was sworn in and sat as a Senator for Western Australia following the 2016 federal election. At that time he was a member of the Pauline Hanson's One Nation party, but o ...

, Georgiou's brother-in-law. Culleton was declared to have been elected to the Senate when the writs were returned. However, the High Court, sitting as the

Court of Disputed Returns The Court of Disputed Returns is a court, tribunal, or some other body that determines disputes about elections in some common law countries. The court may be known by another name such as the Court of Disputed Elections. In countries that derive ...

, ruled on 3 February 2017 that Culleton had been ineligible to be elected at the time of the election. A consequence of that ruling was that a special recount of the votes was undertaken, as if Culleton had not been on the ballot, and Georgiou was elected in his place. Georgiou was sworn in as a Senator on 27 March 2017. On 2017 when

Cory Bernardi Cory Bernardi (born 6 November 1969) is an Australian conservative political commentator and former politician. He was a Senator for South Australia from 2006 to 2020, and was the leader of the Australian Conservatives, a minor political party ...

moved a motion to ban abortion on gender grounds, Georgiou was one of the ten who voted 'Yes' to the motion. It was voted down, 10–36. In May 2018, he was promoted to

party whip A whip is an official of a political party whose task is to ensure party discipline in a legislature. This means ensuring that members of the party vote according to the party platform, rather than according to their own individual ideology ...

. He was defeated at the 2019 election.

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Members of the Australian Senate One Nation members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian Senate for Western Australia 21st-century Australian politicians Australian people of Greek descent 1974 births Living people Pauline Hanson's One Nation politicians {{Australia-politician-stub

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