Senate Lecture Series by Trish Crossin AM and Gary Humphries AO | 05/12/2025

Topic: 50 years of territory representation in the Senate

In this lecture Trish Crossin AM and Gary Humphries AO will discuss territory representation in the Senate to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the election of the first territory senators in December 1975.

Trish will recap the long and controversial journey to representation in the Senate for residents of the Northern Territory (NT) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). She will discuss how the anniversary is a timely reminder that the right of people from the territories to be represented in the Senate is not protected in the Constitution and is instead at the mercy of a piece of legislation and the political composition of the Senate. She will explore what needs to happen so that future
anniversaries are a celebration of equity and fairness.

Gary will examine the way in which political debate in the ACT was changed by having representation in the Senate. After 1980, this representation provided the conservative side of ACT politics with its only voice in the national parliament, and became an important vehicle for a broadening of the debate about the ACT and its needs.

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