Kay Elizabeth Hull is a former Australian politician who served as a National Party member of the House of Representatives from 1998 to 2010,representing the Division of Riverina in New South Wales.
The House of Assembly,or lower house,is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia. The other is the Legislative Council. It sits in Parliament House in the state capital,Adelaide.
Janine Winton Haines,AM was an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 1977 to 1978 and again from 1981 to 1990. She represented the Australian Democrats,and served as the party's leader from 1986 to 1990,becoming the first female federal parliamentary leader of an Australian political party. She was pivotal in "shaping the Australian Democrats into a powerful political entity that held the balance of power in the Senate".
Katherine Margaret Ellis is a former Australian politician,who represented the Division of Adelaide in the Australian House of Representatives for the Australian Labor Party from 2004 until 2019. She served in multiple portfolios in the outer ministry of the 2007–2013 federal Labor government and was in the shadow cabinet after that. In March 2017 Ellis announced that she would step down from shadow cabinet as of the next reshuffle and leave parliament at the 2019 federal election.
Kathryn Jean Martin Sullivan AM is a former Australian politician. A member of the Liberal Party,she was a Senator for Queensland from 1974 to 1984 and a member of the House of Representatives from 1984 to 2001,holding the seat of Moncrieff. She broke Dorothy Tangney's record for the longest period of service in federal parliament by a woman,which was later surpassed by Bronwyn Bishop. She was the first woman to have served in both houses of parliament.
Jessie Mary Cooper was elected as a Liberal and Country League representative to the South Australian Legislative Council at the 1959 election. She was one of the first two women elected to the Parliament of South Australia,along with Joyce Steele who was elected to the House of Assembly on the same day. She served until her retirement in 1979.
Australian Greens SA is a green political party located in the Australian state of South Australia. It is a member of the federation of the Australian Greens party.
Dame Nancy Eileen Buttfield,was an Australian Senator and the first woman to serve in the Australian Parliament as a representative of the state of South Australia.
Vickie Ann Chapman is an Australian politician,representing the South Australian House of Assembly seat of Bragg for the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia since the 2002 election. Chapman served as the Deputy Premier of South Australia and Attorney-General between 19 March 2018 and 22 November 2021 in the Marshall government. She was the first woman to hold either post.
From the turn of the 20th century,women have had the right to stand for parliament and participate in government in Australia. Following federation,the government of the newly formed Commonwealth of Australia passed the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 allowing most women to both vote and stand at the 1903 Federal election. South Australia and Western Australia granted women the vote before federation,and the states of New South Wales,Tasmania,Queensland and Victoria also passed legislation allowing women to participate in government at the state and local levels following federation. Indigenous Australian women did not achieve suffrage at all levels of government and in all states and territories until 1962.
Crawford Vaughan was an Australian politician,and the Premier of South Australia from 1915 to 1917. He was a member of the South Australian House of Assembly from 1905 to 1918,representing Torrens (1905–1915) and Sturt (1915–1918). Elected for the United Labor Party,he served as Treasurer in the Verran government,succeeded Verran as Labor leader in 1913,and was elected Premier after the Labor victory at the 1915 state election.
Dignity Party previously known as Dignity for Disability or Dignity 4 Disability or D4D is a political party in the Australian state of South Australia. The party had one parliamentary member,Kelly Vincent,elected at the 2010 state election to the eleventh and last seat for an eight-year term in the 22-member Legislative Council in the Parliament of South Australia. She was not re-elected in the 2018 state election. In 2016,the name of the political party was changed to the Dignity Party to better represent equality in all forms including race,gender,age and sexual orientation.
Isobel Mary Redmond is a former Australian politician who was the member for the electoral district of Heysen in the House of Assembly from 2002 to 2018. She was the parliamentary leader of the South Australian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia and the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Australia between 2009 and 2013,and was the first female leader of a South Australian state major party. Under Redmond,the Liberals won 18 of 47 seats in the South Australian House of Assembly at the 2010 election,a gain of three from the 2006 election. She resigned as leader of the Liberal Party on 31 January 2013.
Sarah Coral Hanson-Young is an Australian politician who has been a Senator for South Australia since July 2008,representing the Australian Greens. She is the youngest woman to be elected to federal parliament,winning election at the age of 25 and taking office at the age of 26. She was the youngest person ever elected to the Senate,until Jordon Steele-John was elected on a recount in 2017.
Patrick Galvin was an Australian politician.
Kelly Leah Vincent is an Australian playwright,actress and former politician. She was elected at the 2010 state election for the Dignity Party to the eleventh and last seat for an eight-year term in the 22-member Legislative Council in the Parliament of South Australia.
Women's suffrage in Australia was one of the earliest objectives of the movement for gender equality in Australia. It began to be socially and politically accepted and legislated during the late 19th century,beginning with South Australia in 1894 and Western Australia in 1899. In 1902,the newly established Australian Parliament passed the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902,which set a uniform law enabling women to vote at federal elections and to stand for the federal parliament. This removed gender discrimination for white people in relation to electoral rights for federal elections in Australia. By 1908,the remaining Australian states had legislated for women's suffrage for state elections. It took longer before women could stand for parliament throughout Australia and even longer before they were actually elected.
Fanny Eileen Brownbill was an Australian state politician,serving as the Labor Party Member for Geelong,Victoria,serving from 1938 until her death in 1948. Brownbill was the first woman to win a seat for Labor in Victoria.
Katrine Anne Hildyard is an Australian politician representing the electoral district of Reynell in the Parliament of South Australia as a member of the South Australian Labor Party since the 2014 state election.
Natalie Fleur Cook is an Australian politician and anti-violence campaigner. She became an anti-violence campaigner after the death of her son in a one-punch attack in 2008.
