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"I ... realize my great honour in being the first woman to be elected to the Senate. But it is not as a woman that I have been elected to this chamber. It is as a citizen of the Commonwealth ..." Find out more about Dorothy Tangney here: http://biography.senate.gov.au/tangney-dorothy-margaret/ …https://twitter.com/AboutTheHouse/status/1031480983306956800 …
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If you're wondering who the first female parliamentarian was, there were actually two! On the same day in 1943, Enid Lyons was elected to the House and Dorothy Tangney was elected to @AuSenate. As the Library notes, that day was 75 years ago tomorrow. https://twitter.com/ParlLibrary/status/1031345044207353856 …
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