| Honorific Prefix: | Senator |
| Tammy Tyrell | |
| Office: | Senator for Tasmania |
| Term Start: | 1 July 2022 |
| Party: | Independent (since 2024) |
| Otherparty: | Jacqui Lambie Network (until 2024) |
| Predecessor: | Eric Abetz |
| Birth Date: | 1970 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Ulverstone, Tasmania |
Tammy Tyrrell (born 1 August 1970) is an Australian politician, currently a senator in the Australian Federal Parliament representing Tasmania. She ran in the 2022 federal election to represent Tasmania in the Senate, and was elected to fill the sixth vacancy.[1] Her 6-year term started on 1 July 2022.[2]
Tyrrell was raised in Ulverstone, Tasmania, and did not go to university. She worked on a farm after leaving school and by her own admission, got her education from working in paddocks, factories and offices.
She's had a varied work history, from pumping petrol to packing potatoes, as well as working as an employment training adviser for a job agency.[3]
From 2014 to 2022, she worked as a staff member for Senator Jacqui Lambie.[4]
She was selected as the lead candidate on the Jacqui Lambie Network's Senate ticket for the 2022 federal election, and won election, defeating incumbent senator Eric Abetz.[5]
Tyrell was elected to the Federal Senate. In her first year as a Senator, Tammy has successfully negotiated for more affordable homes for Tasmania,[6] tanked a bogus $18 million slush fund for the Governor-General,[7] helped retain the Australian Wine Tourism and Cellar Door Grants program,[8] and advocated for a review into aged care facilities in Tasmania. [9]
On 28 March 2024, Tyrrell announced she would resign from the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN) to sit as an independent, saying that Lambie was "not happy" with the way she was representing the party.[10]
On 1st August, Tammy Responded to claims that she left the JLN because she opposed it going national. Taking to social media, she stated:
At home, Tammy has two adult sons, a cat named Cookie, and a dog named Charlie. She and her partner Tim have been together 25 years – the “longest short-term relationship ever,” she jokes.