Fed: The new senators starting work tomorrow

AAP General News (Australia)
08-08-2005
Fed: The new senators starting work tomorrow

The new senators attending parliament for the first time tomorrow:



Queensland

Russell Trood - international relations specialist and former lecturer who won the
last Queensland Senate seat, delivering majority of one to the coalition. Liberal.

Barnaby Joyce - accountant from St George in central Queensland, outspoken on industrial
relations, the Telstra sale and states' rights, won the second-last Queensland Senate
seat. Nationals.



Western Australia

Judith Adams - New Zealand-born former nurse and farmer. Liberal.

Rachel Siewert - agricultural scientist and environmental activist. Australian Greens.

Glenn Sterle - a former furniture removalist and Transport Workers Union organiser. Labor.



New South Wales

Fiona Nash - wife, mother and farmer, former ministerial staffer. Nationals.



South Australia

Annette Hurley - former state deputy leader, catapulted straight onto Kim Beazley's
frontbench before her Senate term began. Labor.

Dana Wortley - union organiser. Labor.

Anne McEwen - state Labor president and union organiser. Labor.



Tasmania

Stephen Parry, former police officer and funeral director. Liberals.

Christine Milne - former teacher, environmental activist and member of Tasmanian parliament.

Australian Greens.

Helen Polley - state Labor president and adviser to premiers Jim Bacon and Paul Lennon. Labor.



Victoria

Stephen Fielding - Engineer and business executive who became the first member of fledgling
religious political party to be elected to federal parliament. Family First.

Michael Ronaldson - former federal MP and parliamentary secretary who retired in 2001
only to return as senator last October. Liberal.



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