Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate explained

The Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate is the member of the Australian Official Opposition Shadow Ministry responsible for negotiating with the Manager of Government Business in the Senate regarding proceedings in the Australian Senate. Among other things, the topics of negotiation are the order in which Government bills and other items of business are taken, the time allotted for debate, and the timing of Opposition business.

The current Manager of Opposition Business is Anne Ruston.

List

Manager	valign=top	Term began	valign=top	Term ended	valign=top	Party	valign=top	Leader of the Opposition
	Doug McClelland^[1]		27 January 1976	22 December 1977	Labor	Gough Whitlam
None		22 December 1977	7 November 1980	Bill Hayden
Don Grimes^[2]		7 November 1980	5 March 1983
				Bob Hawke
	None	11 March 1983	11 April 1990		Andrew Peacock
John Howard
Andrew Peacock
Chris Puplick^[3]		11 April 1990	30 June 1990	Liberal	John Hewson
None	30 June 1990	11 March 1996
Alexander Downer
John Howard
	Kim Carr^[4]		20 March 1996	25 November 2001	Labor	Kim Beazley
Joe Ludwig^[5]		25 November 2001	3 December 2007	Simon Crean
				Mark Latham
				Kim Beazley
				Kevin Rudd
	Chris Ellison^[6]		6 December 2007	22 September 2008	Liberal	Brendan Nelson
Helen Coonan^[7]		22 September 2008	16 February 2009	Malcolm Turnbull
Stephen Parry^[8]		16 February 2009	14 September 2010
				Tony Abbott
Mitch Fifield^[9] ^[10]		14 September 2010	18 September 2013
		Claire Moore^[11]		18 October 2013	23 July 2016	Labor	Bill Shorten
		Sam Dastyari^[12]		23 July 2016	7 September 2016
		Katy Gallagher^[13] ^[14]		12 September 2016	6 December 2017
		Jacinta Collins		6 December 2017	15 February 2019
		Katy Gallagher^[15] ^[16]		2 June 2019	23 May 2022		Anthony Albanese
		Anne Ruston^[17]		5 June 2022	Incumbent	Liberal	Peter Dutton

See also

• Manager of Opposition Business in the House (Australia)
• Manager of Government Business in the Senate
• Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Australia)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 16 February 2013 . McClelland, Douglas (1926–) .
2. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 16 February 2013 . Grimes, Don .
3. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 16 February 2013 . Puplick, C. J. (Christopher John) (1948–) .
4. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 16 February 2013 . Carr, Kim John (1955–) .
5. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 16 February 2013 . Ludwig, Joseph William, (the Hon) (1959–) .
6. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 16 February 2013 . Ellison, Chris (1954–) .
7. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 16 February 2013 . Coonan, Helen Lloyd (1947–) .
8. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 16 February 2013 . Parry, Stephen Shane (1960–) .
9. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 16 February 2013 . Fifield, Mitchell Peter (1967–) .
10. Web site: Biography for Fifield, Mitchell (Mitch) Peter . Australian Parliamentary Library . 10 September 2013.
11. Senator Claire Moore . 00AOQ . 2021-11-04.
12. Web site: Biography for Dastyari, Sam . Australian Parliamentary Library . 2 May 2019.
13. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 2 June 2019 . Gallagher, Katherine Ruth (1970-) .
14. Web site: Biography for Gallagher, Katherine (Katy) Ruth . Australian Parliamentary Library . 2 June 2019.
15. Web site: Trove . National Library of Australia . Australian Parliamentary Library . 2 June 2019 . Gallagher, Katherine Ruth (1970-) .
16. Web site: Biography for Gallagher, Katherine (Katy) Ruth . Australian Parliamentary Library . 2 June 2019.
17. Senator the Hon Anne Ruston . 243273 . 2022-06-06.