Enid Lyons
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Dame Enid Muriel Lyons was an Australian politician. She was notable as being the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives and to serve in the federal cabinet. Prior to her own politi
Lyons in 1950
Lyons and her husband, c. 1930
Signed photograph of Lyons
Enid and Joseph Lyons during his premiership
Division of Darwin
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The Division of Darwin was an Australian Electoral Division in Tasmania.
Enid Lyons
…in 1939 came as a great shock, and she withdrew from public life for a time. At the 1943 federal election, Lyons successfully stood for the UAP in the Division of Darwin. She and Senator (Dame) Dorothy Tangney became the first two women elected to federal parliament. Lyons joined the new Liberal Party in 1945, and served…
King O'Malley
Portrait of Charles Richard Howroyd, M.H.R. for Darwin, Tasmania
William Spence
George John Bell Lafayette