Members of multiple Australian legislatures

This article provides details of people who have been members of more than one Australian legislature. These consist of: the Commonwealth Parliament 6 state (previously colonial) parliaments 2 territory legislative assemblies.

History On 7 February 1788 the colony of New South Wales was established On 3 December 1825, the colony of Van Diemen's Land was separated from New South Wales The Swan River Colony was established in 1829, and renamed Western Australia in 1832 On 28 December 1836, the colony of South Australia was separated from New South Wales On 1 July 1851, the colony of Victoria was separated from New South Wales In 1855 Victoria gained self-government In 1856 Van Diemen's Land gained self-government and changed its name to Tasmania In 1856 New South Wales gained self-government In 1857 South Australia gained self-government On 6 June 1859, the colony of Queensland was separated from New South Wales and established as a self-governing colony In 1890 Western Australia gained self-government On 1 January 1901, the Commonwealth of Australia came into being, and the status of the six colonies (New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania) changed to states of the Commonwealth On 1 January 1911, the area of the Federal Capital Territory (later renamed Australian Capital Territory) was separated from New South Wales In 1922 the upper house of the Queensland Parliament was abolished In 1978 the Northern Territory gained self-government In 1989 the Australian Capital Territory gained self-government.

List of members of multiple legislatures The following tables are sorted by year of entry to the second legislature, and alphabetically within years. Years in bold indicate the year of entry to the member's second legislature. People who represented different states since 1901 are shown in a dark border.

Prior to Federation (1901) MemberColonyColonial parliament RefsLegislative Council Legislative AssemblyEdward Curr VDL 1825-1826 NSW Port Phillip: 1845-1846, 1848-1849Charles Ebden NSW Port Phillip: 1843-1844, 1848-1848, 1850-1851 1851-1852 Brighton: 1857-1861Sir James Palmer NSW Port Phillip: 1848-1849 Normanby, Dundas & Follett: 1851-1856Western: 1856-1870 William Westgarth NSW City of Melbourne: 1850-1851 City of Melbourne: 1851-1853 Lauchlan Mackinnon NSW Port Phillip: 1848-1850 Belfast & Warrnambool: 1852-1853 Alexander Thomson NSW Port Phillip: 1843-1844 Geelong: 1852-1854 John Foster NSW Port Phillip: 1846-1848, 1849-1850 1853-1854 Williamstown: 1856-1857Andrew Aldcorn 1853-1853 NSW St Vincent: 1858-1859George Stephen 1838-1839 Collingwood: 1859-1861Francis Edward Bigge NSW Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett & Maranoa: 1851-1852 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Francis Edward Bigge 1860-1873 Henry Buckley NSW Stanley County: 1856-1859 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Henry Buckley East Moreton: 1860-1860Robert Cribb NSW East Moreton: 1859-1859 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Robert Cribb Town of Brisbane: 1860-1863East Moreton: 1863-1867Gilbert Eliott NSW Burnett: 1859-1859 1870-1871 Wide Bay: 1860-1870 Sir Arthur Macalister NSW Ipswich: 1859-1859 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Sir Arthur Macalister (Town of) Ipswich: 1860-1868, 1872-1876Eastern Downs: 1868-1871Robert Massie NSW New England & Macleay: 1855-1855Election declared void. Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Robert George Massie 1860-1862 Maurice O'Connell NSW Port Phillip: 1845-1848 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Maurice Charles O'Connell 1860-1879 Benjamin Cribb NSW Stanley Boroughs: 1858-1859 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Benjamin Cribb West Moreton:: 1861-1867John Douglas NSW Darling Downs: 1859-1859Camden: 1860-1861 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: John Douglas Port Curtis: 1863-1866Eastern Downs: 1867-1868East Moreton: 1868-1868Maryborough: 1875-1880Gordon Sandeman NSW Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett & Maranoa: 1856-1857 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Gordon Sandeman 1874-1886 Leichhardt: 1863-1870Richard Smith NSW Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett & Maranoa: 1853-1856 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Richard Joseph Smith 1863-1866 William Forlonge Villiers & Heytesbury: 1854-1856 The Murray: 1858-1859 NSW Orange: 1864-1867William Walsh NSW Leichhardt: 1859-1859 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: William Henry Walsh Maryborough: 1865-1873Warrego: 1873-1878John Panton NSW Cook & Westmoreland: 1843-1849 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: John Panton 1866-1866 Sir Arthur Hodgson NSW Clarence & Darling Downs: 1858-1859Newcastle: 1859-1860 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Sir Arthur Hodgson Warrego: 1868-1869Horace Dean Barossa: 1857-1857 He was twice disqualified from Barossa, and twice disqualified from The HastingsNSW The Hastings: 1869, 1870Henry Milford NSW Braidwood: 1864-1864 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Henry Milford Rockhampton: 1869-1870 He resigned the seat of Rockhampton before ever taking his seatAlexander Fyfe Geelong: 1854-1856 Geelong: 1856-1857 Queensland Parliament, Former Members: Alexander Fyfe Rockhampton: 1870-1873 William Champ VDL/TASThe name of Van Diemen's Land was changed to Tasmania from 1 Jan 1856 1852-1856 Launceston: 1856-1857 East Bourke Boroughs: 1871-1873 Frederick Cooper NSW Braidwood: 1859-1860 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: Frederick Augustus Cooper Cook: 1878-1884William Brodribb Brighton: 1861-1862 NSW 1881-1886 Wentworth: 1880-1881George King NSW East Sydney: 1869-1872 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: George King 1882-1890 John Hurley NSW Central Cumberland: 1872-1874Hartley: 1876-1880, 1887-1891, 1901-1907 Parliament of Queensland, Former Members: John Hurley Maryborough: 1883-1884Frederick Illingworth Northern: 1889-1891 WA Nannine: 1894-1897Central Murchison: 1897-1901Cue: 1901-1904West Perth: 1905-1907

1901 MemberStateColonial/State parliament RefsUpper House Lower House Senate House of Representatives Sir Richard Baker 1877-1901 Barossa: 1868-1871 1901-1906 John Barrett Carlton South: 1895-1897 1901-1903 Sir Edmund Barton NSW 1889 University of Sydney: 1879-1880Wellington: 1880-1882East Sydney: 1882-1887, 1891-1894Hastings and Macleay: 1898-1900 Hunter: 1901-1903 Sir Robert Best Fitzroy: 1889-1901 1901-1910 Kooyong: 1910-1922 Sir Edward Braddon TAS West Devon: 1879–1888; 1893-1901 Tasmania: 1901-1903Wilmot: 1903-1904 Thomas Brown NSW Condoublin: 1894-1901Lachlan: 1913-1917 Canobolas: 1901-1906Calare: 1906-1913 John Chanter NSW Murray: 1885-1894Deniliquin: 1894-1901 Riverina: 1901-1903, 1904-1913, 1914-1922 Sir Austin Chapman NSW Braidwood: 1891-1901 Eden-Monaro: 1901-1926 David Charleston 1891–1897, 1897-1901 1901-1903 Francis Clarke NSW 1899-1900 Macleay: 1893-1894Hastings and Macleay: 1894-1898, 1900-1901 Cowper: 1901-1903 Sir Joseph Cook NSW Hartley: 1891-1901 Parramatta: 1901-1921 Samuel Cooke Western: 1888-1901 Wannon: 1901-1903 George Cruickshank NSW Inverell: 1889-1898 Gwydir: 1901-1903 Henry Dobson TAS Brighton: 1891-1900 1901-1910 Sir John Downer Barossa: 1878-1901 1901-1903 James Drake 1899-1901 Enoggera: 1888-1899 1901-1906 Norman Ewing WA Swan: 1897-1901 1901-1903 TAS Franklin: 1909-1915 Sir Thomas Ewing NSW Richmond: 1885-1894Lismore: 1894-1901 Richmond: 1901-1910 John Ferguson 1894-1906He was simultaneously a member of both the Queensland Legislative Council and the Australian Senate 1901-1903, as the law at that time did not prevent this. Rockhampton: 1881-1888 1901-1903 Andrew Fisher Gympie: 1893-1896, 1899-1901 Wide Bay: 1901-1915 Sir John Forrest WA 1883-1890 Bunbury: 1890-1901Between 1 January and 13 February 1901 he was simultaneously a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, Premier of Western Australia, and a minister in the inaugural Commonwealth Government of Edmund Barton, as the law at that time did not prevent this. Swan: 1901-1918 Sir George Fuller NSW Kiama: 1889-1894Wollondilly: 1915-1928 Illawarra: 1901-1913 Paddy Glynn Light: 1887-1890North Adelaide: 1895–1896, 1897-1901 South Australia: 1901-1903Angas: 1903-1919 Albert Gould NSW 1899-1901 Patrick's Plains: 1882-1894Singleton: 1894-1898 1901-1917 Arthur Groom Gippsland South: 1886-1889Gippsland West: 1889-1892 Flinders: 1991-1903 Billy Hughes NSW Sydney-Lang: 1894-1901 West Sydney: 1901-1917North Sydney: 1922-1949Bradfield: 1949-1952 Bendigo: 1917-1922 (Sir) Isaac Isaacs Bogong: 1892–1893, 1893-1901 Indi: 1901-1906 Thomas Kennedy Benalla and Yarrawonga: 1893-1901 Moira: 1901-1906 Sir William Lyne NSW Hume: 1880-1901 Division of Hume: 1901-1913 Thomas Macdonald-Paterson 1885-1896 Rockhampton: 1878-1883Moreton: 1883-1885Brisbane North: 1896-1901 Brisbane: 1901-1903 Sir Alexander Matheson, 3rd Bt. WA North-East: 1897-1901 1901-1906 Samuel Mauger Footscray: 1900-1901 Melbourne Ports: 1901-1906Maribyrnong: 1906-1910 Charles McDonald Flinders: 1893-1901 Kennedy: 1901-1925 Gregor McGregor 1894-1901 1901-1914 Francis McLean NSW Marrickville: 1894-1901 Lang: 1901-1903 Edward Millen NSW 1899-1901 Bourke: 1894-1898 1901-1923 John Neild NSW Paddington: 1885-1889, 1891-1894, 1895-1901 1901-1910 Richard Edward O'Connor NSW 1888-1898 1901-1903 King O'Malley Encounter Bay: 1896-1899 TAS Tasmania: 1901-1903Darwin: 1903-1917 Pharez Phillips North Western: 1896-1901 Wimmera: 1901-1906 Frederick Piesse TAS Buckingham,: 1894-1901 North Hobart: 1893-1894 Tasmania: 1901-1902 Thomas Playford II Onkaparinga: 1868-187East Torrens: 1875–1887, 1890-1894Newcastle: 1887-1890Gumeracha: 1899-1901 1901-1906 Edward Pulsford NSW 1895-1901 1901-1910 Sir George Reid NSW East Sydney: 1880-1884, 1885-1894Sydney-King: 1894-1901 East Sydney: 1901-1910 Sir Frederick Sargood Central: 1874-1880South Yarra: 1882-1901 1901-1903 William Sawers NSW Bourke: 1885-1886 Tamworth: 1898-1901 New England: 1901-1903 Bruce Smith NSW Gundagai: 1882-1884Glebe: 1889-1894 Parkes: 1901-1919 Sydney Smith NSW East Macquarie: 1882-1894Bathurst: 1894-1898Canterbury: 1900 (election declared void) Macquarie: 1901-1906 Elias Solomon WA South Fremantle: 1892-1901 Fremantle: 1901-1903 Vaiben Solomon Northern Territory: 1890–1901, 1905-1908 The Northern Territory was at that time a part of South Australia South Australia: 1901-1903 William Spence NSW Cobar: 1898-1901 Darling: 1901-1917TAS Darwin: 1917-1919 James Stewart Rockhampton North: 1893-1901 1901-1917 Josiah Thomas NSW Alma: 1894-1901 1917–1923, 1925-1929 Barrier: 1901-1917 Dugald Thomson NSW Warringah: 1894-1901 North Sydney: 1901-1910 Sir George Turner St Kilda: 1889-1901 Balaclava: 1901-1906 David Watkins NSW Wallsend: 1894-1901 Newcastle: 1901-1935 Chris Watson NSW Young: 1894-1901 Bland: 1901-1906South Sydney: 1906-1910 James Wilkinson Ipswich: 1894-1896 Moreton: 1901-1906 Bill Wilks NSW Balmain North: 1894-1901 Dalley: 1901-1910 Sir William Zeal North Central: 1882-1901 Castlemaine: 1864-1865, 1871-1874 1901-1906

1902-1919