Leader of the Government in the Senate (Australia)
The current Leader of the Government in the Senate is Mathias Cormann. The current Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate is Simon Birmingham, who was appointed on the same date following the resignation of Mitch Fifield.
Cate Faehrmann
Cate Faehrmann (born 17 March 1970) is an Australian politician and environmental activist.
Faehrmann was a Greens member of the New South Wales Legislative Council from 2011 to 2013. She resigned from the Legislative Council in June 2013 in order to stand for the Australian Senate at the 2013 federal election, but was unsuccessful. She worked in the office of the Leader of the Australian Greens Richard Di Natale as his chief of staff from May 2015 until March 2018. In August 2018, she was re-elected to the Legislative Council to fill the casual vacancy caused by the resignation of Mehreen Faruqi, who replaced Lee Rhiannon in the Australian Senate.