About
Senator Jim Molan AO, DSC is a retired Major General in the Australian Army and a Senator for New South Wales.
Jim is a member of the Liberal Party in NSW and was a candidate for the Australian Senate in 2016. Despite being 7th on the Coalition Party ticket, Jim achieved the fourth highest personal below-the-line vote of all 182 NSW Senate candidates, and the second highest of the 12 candidates on the Coalition ticket, gaining 10,182 votes. Jim has been in the leadership group for the Democratic Reform Movement of the NSW Division of the Liberal Party. ON the 22 Dec 17, the High Court of Australia appointed Jim as a Senator for New South Wales in the federal parliament as a result of ineligibility of other candidates. Jim’s first term as a NSW Senator concluded in June 2019. On November 14, 2019, Jim returned to the Senate after being selected by the NSW Liberal Party to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Arthur Sinodinos.