List of members of the Australian Parliament who died in office

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The following is a list of members of the Australian Parliament who died in office.

Member Party
State
 Date of death Age at death Cause
Frederick Thomas Sargood   Free Trade Victoria 2 January 1903[1] 68
William Russell   Labor South Australia 28 June 1912 69 Heart disease[2]
Gregor McGregor   Labor South Australia 13 August 1914 65 Heart disease[3]
Robert Guthrie   Nationalist South Australia 20 January 1921 63 Struck by a tram[4]
John Adamson   Nationalist Queensland 2 May 1922 65 Fell in front of a train in possible suicide[5]
Thomas Bakhap   Nationalist Tasmania 18 August 1923 56
Edward Millen   Nationalist New South Wales 14 September 1923 62 Chronic nephritis[6]
Stephen Barker   Labor Victoria 21 June 1924[7] 77-78
Allan McDougall   Labor New South Wales 14 October 1924 67 Diabetes[8]
Jack Power   Labor New South Wales 13 January 1925[9] 41
Edward Russell   Nationalist Victoria 18 July 1925 46 Brain disease[10]
James O'Loghlin   Labor South Australia 4 December 1925 73 Tuberculosis[11]
Charles McHugh   Labor South Australia 24 July 1927 40 Pneumonia[12]
John Grant   Labor New South Wales 19 May 1928[13] 70-71
Thomas Givens   Nationalist Queensland 19 June 1928 64 Heart disease[14]
David Andrew   Country Victoria 19 November 1928 62
John Chapman   Labor South Australia 14 March 1931 51
Harold Elliott   Nationalist Victoria 23 March 1931 52 Suicide caused by post-traumatic stress disorder[15]
James Ogden   United Australia Tasmania 5 February 1932[16] 63
John Newlands   United Australia South Australia 20 May 1932[17] 67
Walter Kingsmill   United Australia Western Australia 15 January 1935 70 Coronary occlusion[18]
Lionel Courtenay   United Australia New South Wales 11 July 1935[19] 55
William Carroll   Country Western Australia 30 May 1936[20] 64
John MacDonald   Labor Queensland 17 August 1937 57 Heart disease[21]
John Barnes   Labor Victoria 31 January 1938 69 Cancer
Bertie Johnston   Country Western Australia 6 September 1942 62 Drowning[22]
James Cunningham   Labor Western Australia 4 July 1943[23] 63
Richard Keane   Labor Victoria 26 April 1946 65 Heart disease[24]
Richard Nash   Labor Western Australia 12 December 1951 61 Heart attack[25]
Edmund Piesse   Country Western Australia 25 August 1952 62 Suicide by carbon-monoxide poisoning[26]
Jack Chamberlain   Liberal Tasmania 16 January 1953[27] 68
George McLeay   Liberal South Australia 14 September 1955 63 Ischemic heart disease[28]
Jack Devlin   Labor Victoria 26 May 1957[29] 57
Bill Ashley   Labor New South Wales 27 June 1958 76 Stroke[30]
Harrie Seward   Country Western Australia 23 July 1958[31] 74
Rex Pearson   Liberal South Australia 11 September 1961 56
Albert Reid   Country Queensland 22 May 1962 76 Heart attack[32]
Max Poulter   Labor Queensland 2 September 1962[33] 49
Seddon Vincent   Liberal Western Australia 9 November 1964 56
Harrie Wade   Country Victoria 18 November 1964 59 Heart attack[34]
Shane Paltridge   Liberal Western Australia 21 January 1966 56 Cancer[35]
Bob Sherrington   Liberal Queensland 16 March 1966 64
Charles Sandford   Labor Victoria 22 October 1966 71
Clive Hannaford   Independent South Australia 24 October 1967[36] 64
Keith Laught   Liberal South Australia 13 May 1969 61
Sam Cohen   Labor Victoria 7 October 1969 50 Heart attack
Colin McKellar   Country New South Wales 13 April 1970 66 Coronary heart disease
James Ormonde   Labor New South Wales 30 November 1970 67
Bertie Milliner   Labor Queensland 30 June 1975 63 Heart attack
Ivor Greenwood   Liberal Victoria 13 October 1976 49 Heart attack
John Knight   Liberal Australian Capital Territory 4 March 1981 37 Heart attack
Alan Missen   Liberal Victoria 30 March 1986 60 Heart attack[37]
Olive Zakharov   Labor Victoria 6 March 1995[38] 65 Struck by a car
John Panizza   Liberal Western Australia 31 January 1997 65
Jeannie Ferris   Liberal South Australia 1 April 2007 66 Ovarian cancer[39]
Judith Adams   Liberal Western Australia 31 March 2012 68 Breast cancer[40]
Alex Gallacher   Labor South Australia 29 August 2021 67 Lung cancer[41]
Kimberley Kitching   Labor Victoria 10 March 2022[42] 52 Heart attack (suspected)
Jim Molan   Liberal New South Wales 16 January 2023 72 Cancer[43]
Linda White   Labor Victoria 29 February 2024 63-64 Cancer[44]

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