President of the Senate (Australia)

The President of the Senate is the presiding officer of the Australian Senate, the upper house of the Parliament of Australia.

President of the Senate
Incumbent Slade Brockman since 18 October 2021
Style	The Honourable
Appointer	Elected by the Senate
Inaugural holder	Sir Richard Baker
Formation	9 May 1901
Deputy	Senator Sue Lines
Salary	A$369,674
Website	aph.gov.au

The largest party in the Senate is not always the governing party, as government is determined by the House of Representatives. The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives may be from different parties.

List of presidents

#	Name	Party		State	Term start	Term end
1	Sir Richard Baker		Free Trade	South Australia	9 May 1901	31 December 1906
2	(Sir) Albert Gould		Free Trade / Anti-Socialist	New South Wales	20 February 1907	30 June 1910
			Liberal
3	Harry Turley		Labor	Queensland	1 July 1910	8 July 1913
4	Thomas Givens		Labor	Queensland	9 July 1913	30 June 1926
			National Labor
			Nationalist
5	Sir John Newlands		Nationalist	South Australia	1 July 1926	13 August 1929
6	Walter Kingsmill		Nationalist	Western Australia	14 August 1929	30 August 1932
			United Australia
7	Patrick Lynch		United Australia	Western Australia	31 August 1932	30 June 1938
8	John Hayes		United Australia	Tasmania	1 July 1938	30 June 1941
9	James Cunningham		Labor	Western Australia	1 July 1941	4 July 1943
10	Gordon Brown		Labor	Queensland	23 September 1943	19 March 1951
11	Ted Mattner		Liberal	South Australia	12 June 1951	7 September 1953
12	(Sir) Alister McMullin		Liberal	New South Wales	8 September 1953	30 June 1971
13	Sir Magnus Cormack		Liberal	Victoria	17 August 1971	11 April 1974
14	Justin O'Byrne		Labor	Tasmania	9 July 1974	11 November 1975
15	(Sir) Condor Laucke		Liberal	South Australia	17 February 1976	30 June 1981
16	(Sir) Harold Young		Liberal	South Australia	18 August 1981	4 February 1983
17	Doug McClelland		Labor	New South Wales	21 April 1983	23 January 1987
18	Kerry Sibraa		Labor	New South Wales	17 February 1987	31 January 1994
19	Michael Beahan		Labor	Western Australia	1 February 1994	30 June 1996
20	Margaret Reid		Liberal	ACT	20 August 1996	18 August 2002
21	Paul Calvert		Liberal	Tasmania	19 August 2002	14 August 2007
22	Alan Ferguson		Liberal	South Australia	14 August 2007	25 August 2008
23	John Hogg		Labor	Queensland	26 August 2008	30 June 2014
24	Stephen Parry		Liberal	Tasmania	7 July 2014	2 November 2017
25	Scott Ryan		Liberal	Victoria	13 November 2017	18 October 2021
26	Slade Brockman		Liberal	Western Australia	18 October 2021	Incumbent