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This is a list of members of the Australian Senate as at 1 July 2016. All 76 senators were elected at the 2016 double dissolution election on 2 July 2016. Due to the election being a double dissolution, and not an ordinary half-senate election, the terms of half of the senators representing each of the six states of Australia are allocated six-year terms ending on 30 June 2022 with the remainder allocated three-year terms ending on 30 June 2019. The terms of senators from the States can only be truncated if another double dissolution election is called. The terms of senators from the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory end on the next dissolution of the House of Representatives.
The senate resolved that the first elected six of twelve Senators in each state would serve a six-year term, while the last six elected in each state would serve a three-year term. This decision followed an agreement between Liberal's Mathias Cormann and Labor's Penny Wong to choose the method that benefited their parties at the expense of Lee Rhiannon and Derryn Hinch both being allocated short terms. The alternate method of allocating long and short terms would have given them long terms instead of Labor's Deborah O'Neill and Liberal's Scott Ryan.