This is a list of members of the
Australian Senate
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from 1971 to 1974.
Half of its members were elected at the
25 November 1967 half Senate election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1974; the other half were elected at the
21 November 1970 half Senate election and had terms due to finish on 30 June 1977. In fact, the term for all of them was terminated by the
double dissolution
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for the
18 May 1974 election.
The government changed during the Senate term as the election cycles of the Senate and the
House of Representatives
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had been out of synchronisation since 1963 and the
Coalition
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Formation
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government, led by
Prime Minister
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William McMahon, was defeated by the
Labor Party, led by
Gough Whitlam, at the
December 1972 House of Representatives election.
Members
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