Perth Rotary Luncheon | Dame Dot Tangney | 15th March 2024
Perth Rotary IWD Luncheon | Dame Dorothy Margaret Tangney | 15th March 2024
International Women’s Day was celebrated on the 8th of March. Western Australia can be proud of two first’s to momentarily break the glass ceiling. In these cases, the parliamentary ceiling!
First Woman in an Australian Parliament and second in the world, Edith Dirksey Cowan 1921. First Woman in the Australian Senate Dorothy Tangney, 1943 and serving continuously for twenty-five years to 1967.
A Freo girl who eventually became a Dame, here she is depicted, in artistic relief, on the Norfolk Hotel in Fremantle.
Dame Dorothy served on numerous committees particularly education and social policy. She was the Labor Party’s only female parliamentarian throughout all of her years of service. Her niece and biographer, Maxine Muir will be giving Perth Rotary the drum on Aunty Dot.
Bookings close Wed 13th March @ 5pm
International Women’s Day was celebrated on the 8th of March. Western Australia can be proud of two first’s to momentarily break the glass ceiling. In these cases, the parliamentary ceiling!
First Woman in an Australian Parliament and second in the world, Edith Dirksey Cowan 1921. First Woman in the Australian Senate Dorothy Tangney, 1943 and serving continuously for twenty-five years to 1967.
A Freo girl who eventually became a Dame, here she is depicted, in artistic relief, on the Norfolk Hotel in Fremantle.
Dame Dorothy served on numerous committees particularly education and social policy. She was the Labor Party’s only female parliamentarian throughout all of her years of service. Her niece and biographer, Maxine Muir will be giving Perth Rotary the drum on Aunty Dot.
Bookings close Wed 13th March @ 5pm
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Parmelia Hilton
14 Mill Street, Perth WA 6000
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Perth Rotary Luncheon | Dame Dot Tangney | 15th March 2024
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