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Women have had the right to both vote and sit in parliament since 1902. The first woman to run for the House of Representatives was Selina Anderson at the 1903 election for Dalley , but the first woman elected to the House was Dame Enid Lyons at the 1943 election for Darwin .
Speaker Labor: Milton Dick: Oxley: QLD 26 July 2022 – current Deputy Speaker: Sharon Claydon: Newcastle: NSW 26 July 2022 – current Second Deputy Speaker Liberal: Ian Goodenough: Moore: WA 26 July 2022 – current
This list presents female speakers of national and territorial unicameral parliaments of their respective nations or territories. [1] Many women have been elected to parliaments around the world, starting around the first quarter of 20th century. Some of them were entrusted to take the position of Speaker of the parliament.
The subsequent government would become the second in Australia to be headed by two women and the first ministry in Australia to have a female majority. [31] On 3 March 2018, Australia passed another milestone when, at the 2018 Tasmanian election, Tasmanians elected a majority of women to the Tasmanian House of Assembly, with 13 women and 12 men ...
Despite this, 41 women were elected into the Senate between 1943 and 1980. [4] The proportion of women in the Senate can be seen over a long time period to have drastically grown, with the 1948 Senate being composed of 5.6% women, 14.1% in 1980, 23.7% in 1990, 28.9% in 2002, and 53% in 2021. [6]
United Australia: Tasmania: 23 October 1934 27 August 1940 10 Walter Nairn: United Australia: Western Australia: 20 November 1940 21 June 1943 Remained as speaker following the mid-term fall of the Fadden minority government in 1941, until defeated in his own seat at the 1943 election. 11 Sol Rosevear: Labor: New South Wales: 22 June 1943 31 ...
This list presents female speakers of national and territorial upper houses of their respective countries or territories. The upper house, often called the Senate, is the one of two chambers in a bicameral legislature. The upper house usually has less power than the lower house. In some countries, its members are appointed rather than elected ...
A Speaker ceases to hold that office if, for any reason, they cease to be a member of the House. There is no convention in Australia that the Speaker should not be opposed in their seat, and three Speakers have been defeated at general elections: Littleton Groom (1929), Walter Nairn (1943) and William Aston (1972). Because the Speaker is always ...