The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: 1962-1983, Volume 3
Publishing Details
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate: 1962-1983, Volume 3
By (Author) Ann Millar
Edited by Geoffrey Browne
NewSouth Publishing
NewSouth Publishing
1st August 2010
Australia
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Dictionaries of biography
328.940922
Physical Properties
712
Width 170mm, Height 245mm
Description
The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate is an authoritative work of reference on the lives and careers of senators of the Federal Parliament. This third volume contains articles on the 104 senators and four clerks of the Senate whose parliamentary service ended during the period of rapid social and political change: 1962-1983. It highlights the achievements of some of the Senate's trailblazers: the first Aboriginal senator Neville Bonner, first Jewish senator Sam Cohen, the first ACT senator John Knight, and a cohort of pioneering women in the Senate who followed the election of Dorothy Tangney in 1943.
Author Bio
Ann Millar is the director of the Biographical Dictionary Unit at the Department of the Senate, Australia and the editor of the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate series.
