(1907-03-13)13 March 1907 North Perth, Western Australia
Died
3 June 1985(1985-06-03) (aged 78) Wembley, Western Australia
Political party
Australian Labor Party
Alma mater
University of Western Australia
Occupation
Teacher
Dame Dorothy Margaret Tangney DBE (13 March 1907 – 3 June 1985) was an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and served as a Senator for Western Australia from 1943 to 1968. She was the first woman elected to the Senate and one of the first two women elected to federal parliament, along with Enid Lyons.
Tangney was born in Perth to a working-class family of Irish descent. She spent her early years in country Western Australia and later in Fremantle. She trained as a schoolteacher and attended the University of Western Australia, where she was president of the University Labor Club. She was active in the Teachers' Union and community organisations. Tangney was elected to the Senate at the 1943 federal election, after several previous candidacies at state and federal level. She was re-elected on four further occasions before her defeat in 1967, serving nearly 25 years in the Senate. In the Senate, Tangney served on numerous committees and was particularly interested in education and social policy. She was her party's only female parliamentarian throughout her service.
Dame Dorothy Margaret Tangney DBE (13 March 1907 – 3 June 1985) was an Australian politician. She was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and...
Division of Tangney is an Australian electoral division in the state of Western Australia. The Division was named after Dame DorothyTangney, the first...
The Statues of DorothyTangney and Enid Lyons are located near Old Parliament House in Canberra, Australia. The bronze statues honour the women's contributions...
stood for the UAP in the Division of Darwin. She and Senator (Dame) DorothyTangney became the first two women elected to federal parliament. Lyons joined...
Lyons for Darwin, Tasmania, and the first female Senator, Labor's DorothyTangney, in Western Australia. The election also remains Labor's greatest federal...
Nellie Martel, and Mary Moore-Bentley). However, it was not until DorothyTangney's victory at the 1943 federal election that a woman was elected. Since...
original image of the first Australian female senator. The image of Dame DorothyTangney DBE was created by Vhils and his assistants. Luxembourg Freeport, an...
were not represented federally until the 1943 federal election when DorothyTangney and Enid Lyons were elected to the Senate and the House of Representatives...
(1882–1968)". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 5 June 2023. "TANGNEY, Dame Dorothy Margaret (1907–1985)". Parliament of Australia. Retrieved 5 June...
Maryborough on 18 December 1943, launched on 14 December 1944 by Senator DorothyTangney and commissioned at Urangan Pier in Hervey Bay in Queensland on 2 May...
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Enid Lyons, in the Australian House of Representatives and Senator DorothyTangney became the first women in the Federal Parliament in 1943. In 1971,...
following year. She was the second woman elected to the Senate, after DorothyTangney. Rankin was the Liberal Party's chief whip from 1947 to 1950 and from...
but it was not until the 1943 election that Enid Lyons and Senator DorothyTangney became the first women to be elected to the Federal Parliament. The...
became the first woman ever elected to any Australian Parliament. DorothyTangney was the first woman elected to the Australian Senate in 1946, a seat...
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maiden parliamentary speeches of Dame Enid Lyons and DorothyTangney Dame Enid Lyons, Dame DorothyTangney 1943–1944 2011 483285, 483102 The Art of the Prima...
Sutherland 1979 In recognition of service to the performing arts [331] DorothyTangney 1968 Service to the Western Australia [sic] Parliament [332]; the reference...
number of women in the Senate to four (out of 60), the others being DorothyTangney and Annabelle Rankin. Wedgwood's first term began on 22 February 1950...
McKell (1951), Edward McTiernan (1951), Robert Cosgrove (1959), and DorothyTangney (1968). Exactly why Egerton broke with ALP tradition and accepted the...
of Australia in 1945. In 1946 she served on a committee chaired by DorothyTangney to advise on the legal obligation that wives take their husbands' nationality...
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