Lyons,+Enid

 || Dame Enid Lyons was the first woman in Australia to be elected to the House of Representatives.She was also the devoted wife of an Australian Prime Minister and mother of twelve children. Enid was born in what would be called very poor circumstances, her father was a working man, worked at a sawmill and always her memories of my early childhood revolve around little bush sawmills. || By the time Enid was fourteen she was studying at teacher’s college in Hobart. It was here she met schoolteacher Joseph Lyons. They married three years later when Enid was seventeen and Joseph was thirty-four. He had left teaching and entered state politics. || She was made Dame Enid by the King in 1943 and Dame Enid of Australia in 1980. Her picture has also appeared on stamps. [] ​ || Chronological reference to people and experiences that influenced the person explaining how they influenced them. ||  Despite her devastation at Joseph's death (her husband), in 1943 Enid Lyons became the first woman elected to federal parliament (for the seat of Darwin), then in 1949 the first woman in federal cabinet. She worked to enlarge welfare payments to women and children, for example extending child endowment. On retirement in 1951, she wrote newspaper articles and two autobiographical volumes, and in 1980 was created a Dame. || At Desmond’s birth Enid broke her pelvis, and although often causing crippling pain, this was not diagnosed until after she had borne all 12 children. ||  ||  Enid Lyons (R) entered Parliament House in Canberra on 24 September 1943, she also stepped into history, as the first women in the Australian parliament. Enid Lyons was a gifted public speaker; her maiden speech in the Parliament was described as ‘eloquent and richly written’. She acknowledged the historic moment. || This was a big change in Enid’s life. In 1932 Joseph became Prime Minister of Australia. || Well known persons working at the same time. ||  ALICE MCLELLAN BIRNEY PHOEBE APPERSON HEARST SELENA SLOAN BUTLER || Why do their life is regarded as significant and why they are admirable. ||  ** || Lyons worked hard in Parliament for women and children. She believed that men and women should be completely equal. In those days women often stayed at home. If they did go out to work, they earned less. Lyons brought in welfare payments for mothers and equal training allowances for women and men. || Establishes when and where the person died and the effect their work and values had on people. ||  She was born on 9 July 1897 and lived to the ripe old age of 84, when she died on 2 September 1981. She has been referred to in a number of publications and books. || Dame Enid Lyons died in 1981 at Home Hill, the home she had lived in for over sixty years. She was eighty-four years of age. || [|hhttp://moadoph.gov.au/exhibitions/online/mrspm/images/timeline/sm/TL10-Enid-Lyons-portrait.] [] [] [] [] [] ||
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 * ^  || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> As a teenager, Enid Lyons met a schoolteacher she later married; Joseph Lyons went on to become Prime Minister, and together they formed a strong political and personal partnership, raising a family of 12 children. The Lodge in Canberra was their official residence, but their weatherboard house in Tasmania was the home Enid loved. She was Joseph’s greatest asset, a popular public speaker and Australia’s best-known woman. Tragedy struck when Joseph died, leaving Enid a widow. In 1943, at the age of forty-six she became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives, a defining point in Australian history.
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 * She was the first woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives as well as the first woman appointed to the federal Cabinet. Prior to these significant achievements, she was best known as the wife of the Premier of Tasmania and later Prime Minister of Australia, Joseph Lyons.
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