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    Dame Enid Muriel Lyons AD GBE (née Burnell; 9 July 1897 – 2 September 1981) was an Australian politician. She was notable as the being the first woman...
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    Several years after his death, his widow Enid Lyons became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. Lyons was born in Stanley, Tasmania, on 15...
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  • jointly honours Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia 1932–39, Member for Wilmot from 1929–39, and his wife Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected...
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    and covering most of central and eastern Tasmania. Lyons is named jointly in honour of Joseph Lyons, Prime Minister of Australia (1932–1939); Premier of...
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    ceramic artist Enid Luff (1935–2022), Welsh musician Enid Lyons (1897–1981), Australian politician and wife of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons Enid MacRobbie (born...
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    prime ministers' spouses have held public office in their own right – Enid Lyons became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives several...
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    1918, aged nine when he served as a page boy to Enid Lyons in a queen carnival. In her memoirs, Lyons recalled Flynn as "a dashing figure—a handsome boy...
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  • The Statues of Dorothy Tangney and Enid Lyons are located near Old Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. The bronze statues honour the women's contributions...
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    election; Enid Lyons simultaneously became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. Tangney was sworn in six minutes before Lyons. Tangney...
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    The Lyons government was the federal executive government of Australia led by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. It was made up of members of the United Australia...
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    the House of Representatives from 1946 to 1949, the second woman after Enid Lyons to do so. Blackburn was a prominent socialist and originally a member...
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  • Division. Lyons was born in Tasmania. He is the son of politician Kevin Lyons Sr., and the grandson of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons and his wife Enid. He moved...
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    Dame Enid Lyons (1897–1981), First woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first woman to serve in the federal cabinet Joseph Lyons (1879–1939)...
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  • conservative alliance in 1931, with Labor defector Joseph Lyons as its leader. The stance of Lyons and other Labor rebels against the more radical proposals...
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  • colourful Labor member, Sir George Bell, Speaker of the House, and Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. "House of Assembly...
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    Australia; 1978 Anne Henderson; Joseph Lyons: The People's Prime Minister; NewSouth; 2011. "Enid Lyons – Joseph Lyons – Australia's PMs – Australia's Prime...
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  • Edward Lyons (disambiguation), several people Eileen Lyons (born 1941), American politician Enid Lyons (1897–1981), Australian politician Ernest Lyon (1860–1938)...
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    was the son of Joseph Lyons (who would go on to become Premier of Tasmania and later Prime Minister of Australia) and Enid Lyons (who would become the...
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    Gordon Jackson Angus Houston https://www.adoptapet.com.au/pet/804659 Enid Lyons "Chris Devine" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 June 2014...
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  • mother Enid, and brother Kevin preceded him in politics. Lyons was born on 17 June 1927 in Hobart, Tasmania, the eighth of twelve children born to Enid (Burnell)...
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    state Parliamentarian in 1921, Dorothy Tangney the first Senator and Enid Lyons the first Member of the House of Representatives in 1943. The first European-style...
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  • 1929–1939 and at the state level from 1909 to 1929, and his wife Dame Enid Lyons, the first woman elected to the Australian House of Representatives in...
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  • in factories rose from 171,000 to 286,000. Dame Enid Lyons, widow of former Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, became the first woman elected to the House of...
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    surrounded the campaign against the Franklin Dam in the early 1980s. Tasmanian Enid Lyons became the first female member of the House of Representatives at the...
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    of the first female member of the House of Representatives, the UAP's Enid Lyons for Darwin, Tasmania, and the first female Senator, Labor's Dorothy Tangney...
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    predecessor to the modern Liberal Party of Australia. His wife, Dame Enid Lyons, a Catholic convert, became the first female member of the Australian...
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  • Her great-grandfather was Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, and her great-grandmother was Dame Enid Lyons, who was the first woman in the Australian parliament...
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  • election for Dalley, but the first woman elected to the House was Dame Enid Lyons at the 1943 election for Darwin. At that election, the first woman member...
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    defector Joseph Lyons as its leader and John Latham, hitherto leader of the Nationalist Party of Australia as his deputy. The stance of Lyons and another...
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    Liberal member for Darwin, succeeding the retiring Liberal member Dame Enid Lyons. He held the seat until its abolition in 1955, when he successfully contested...
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