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This is a list of Fathers of the Australian Senate. The Father of the Senate is an informal title that carries no parliamentary responsibilities. It is held by the senator who has served longer, continuously, than any other currently serving senator. Where two or more senators have equal lengths of continuous service, more than any other currently serving senators, they are known as the joint Fathers of the Senate. Joint Fathers are shown in small type in the following list. The only Father of the Senate with broken service but whose latter period of continuous service was sufficiently long to qualify was Sir Walter Cooper. The first Senate was elected on 29 and 30 March 1901. Despite the different election dates, all the members elected to that First Parliament were considered to have had equal seniority. It follows that there could not be a "longest-serving Senator" until only one Senator from the First Parliament was still serving. That occurred on 14 September 1923 with the death of Hon Edward Millen, leaving Sir George Pearce as the sole longest-serving Senator, and thus the inaugural Father of the Senate. Since that date the Fathers and joint Fathers of the Senate have been: ==See also== *Father of the House *Father of the Australian House of Representatives *Father of the Australian Parliament *Members of the Australian Parliament who have served for at least 30 years 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Father of the Australian Senate」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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