Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate

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 Jonathan Duniam, since January 2025.

List

Manager			Term began	Term ended	Party	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	25 January 2025	Liberal	Peter Dutton
	Jonathan Duniam		25 January 2025	Incumbent

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)