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4 giorni fa · In 1915, he married Enid Muriel Burnell. Joseph Lyons began his political career in the Australian Labor Party and was the 26 th Premier of Tasmania from 1923 to 1928. In 1929, Lyons resigned from state parliament to enter federal politics. In Labor’s landslide victory on 12 October 1929, he was elected to the federal seat of Wilmot.
6 lug 2024 · Tasmania’s Dame Enid Lyons and Western Australia’s Dorothy Tangney were the first two women to be elected to Australia’s federal parliament. In 1943 Tangney won a seat in the Senate and that same year Dame Enid was elected to the House of Representatives.
18 lug 2024 · When Joseph died in 1939, aged 59, (the first Australian Prime Minister to die in office), Dame Enid returned to Tasmania. Enid Lyons was made a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the Coronation Honours of 1936. Enid was, as they say, one in a million.
4 lug 2024 · Tasmania’s Dame Enid Lyons and Western Australia’s Dorothy Tangney were the first two women to be elected to Australia’s federal parliament. In 1943 Tangney won a seat in the Senate and that same year Dame Enid was elected to the House of Representatives.
12 lug 2024 · Home Hill, Devonport is the former residence of Joseph Lyons (1879-1939) Tasmania’s Premier in 1923-28 and Australia’s 10 th Prime Minister 1932-39 and Dame Enid Lyons (1897-1981), the first woman elected to Federal Parliament, as a Member of the House of Representatives in 1943.
18 lug 2024 · In 1943 his wife Dame Enid Lyons became Australia's first woman to elected to the House of Representatives (and subsequently the first woman to serve in federal cabinet. She was also the mother to 12 children.
5 giorni fa · Enid Lyons was Australia’s first female member of the House of Representatives. She was a well-liked politician and the first woman to be appointed to the federal Cabinet. Prior to becoming an independent politician, she was the wife of Australia’s Prime Minister, Joseph Lyons.
