Seating arrangements: Women in parliament

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Arena Magazine 8

Felicity Lewis

Dec 1993

Abstract:

In 1902, Australian women were granted the right to stand for election in the Commonwealth House of Representatives and Senate. It wasn’t until 1943 that two women actually cracked it for seats. Dame Enid Lyons MP and Senator Dorothy Tangney were recently featured on a postage stamp commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of women in Federal Parliament. Nowadays, women make up thirteen per cent of our federal representation, and similar figures apply in the State and Territory legislatures.

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