Worldwide Guide to Women in
Leadership
Female
Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia
(female suffrage 1902)
Assistant Vice-Presidents of the Senate have the title Temporary Chairperson of Committees of the Senate
Assistant Deputy Speakers of the House of Representatives have got the title Member of the Speaker’s Panel
1961-71 Temporary Chairperson of Committees
of the Senate Dame Ivy
Wedgwood
Senator 1950-71.
1976-87 Temporary
Chairperson of Committees
of the Senate
Ruth Coleman
Senator 1974-87.
1980 Temporary
Chairperson of Committees
of the Senate Lady Florence Bjelke-Petersen
1985-93 Temporary Chairperson
Senator 1980-93 and 1985-93 Deputy Leader of the Australian National Party in
The Senate.
1976-87 Temporary
Chairperson of Committees
of the Senate Ruth Coleman
Senator 1974-87.
1981-83 Deputy President of the
Senate, Chair of Committees Kathryn Sullivan
1990-93 Deputy Chairperson of Committees (Second Deputy Speaker) of the House of
Representatives
1996-97 Member of Speaker’s Panel of the House
From 1997 Parliamentary Secretary of Foreign Affairs.
1981-86 Temporary
Chairperson of Committees of the Senate Janie Haines
Leader of the Australian Democrats 1986-89 .
1983-91 Deputy Chair of Committees (Second Deputy Speaker)
Elaine E. Darling
1983-84 Deputy Chair of Committees (Second Deputy Speaker)
of the House of Representatives
1984-86 Chair of Committees (Deputy Speaker)
1986-89 Speaker of the House of Representatives Joan Child (The Rt.
Hon)
Labour MP 1974-75 and 1980-90. She lived (1921-2013)
1985-93 Temporary Chairperson of Committees of the Senate Patricia Giles
Vice-President of Labour 1983-85 .
1987-88 Temporary Chairperson of Committees of the Senate Janet Powell
Around 1988 Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives Lyn Simon
1990/92-99 Temporary Chair of Committees
of the Senate
Margaret Reynolds
Minister of Local Government etc. 1987-90.
1990-93
and 1996-2002
Temporary Chairperson
of Committees of the Senate Rosemary Crowley
Federal Minister 1993-96.
1991-93 Temporary Chairperson of Committees
of the Senate Amanda Vastone
Minister of Employment 1996-97, Minister of Justice
1995-96 Deputy President and Chairperson
Committees
of the Senate Margaret Reid
1996-2002 President of the Senate
Deputy Chief Whip of Liberal Party in government and
opposition 1982-87 and Opposition Whip 1987-95 (b. 1935-)
1993-97 Temporary
Chairperson of Committees of the Senate
Suzanne West
1997-2002 Deputy President and Chairperson of Committees of the Senate
1996-98 Temporary Chairperson of Committees
of the Senate
Jay Patterson
Parliamentary Secretary in the Government since 1998
1996-2006 Temporary Chairperson of Committees
of the Senate Susan Knowles
Deputy Opposition Whip
1996-2002 Member of the
Speaker’s Panel of the House of Representatives
Janice Crosio
Minister in New South Wales 1984-88, Parliamentary Secretary in
the Federal Government 1993-96 and
1997-2002 Member of the Speaker’s Panel of the House of Representatives
De-Anne
M. Kelly
1998-2002 Member of the
Speaker’s Panel of the House of Representatives
Joanna Gash
Government Whip 2002-06. (Born 1944 in Groningen, The Netherlands)
Helen Donaldson was Deputy Usher of the Black Rod before
her appointment.
2002 Temporary Chairperson of Committees
of the Senate Jacinta Collins
Parliamentary Secretary from 2010.
2002-06 Temporary Chairperson of Committees of the Senate Jan Elizabeth McLucas
2002-04
Member of the Speaker’s Panel of the House of Representatives
Ann Kathleen Corcoran
2002-04
Member of the Speaker’s Panel of the House of Representatives Teresa Gambaro
Parliamentary Secretary 2004-07.
2004-07 Member of the Speaker's Panel of the House of Representatives
Browyn Bishop
2013-15 Speaker of the House of Representatives
President of Liberal Party of New South Wales 1985-87,
Minister for Defence Industry,
Science and Personnel
1996-98 and
Minister for Aged Care
1998-2001.
In
2006-08 Temporary Chairperson of Committees of the Senate Patricia Crossin
2006-08 Temporary Chairperson of Committees of
the Senate Linda Jean Kirk
Also Opposition Deputy Whip (Labour) in the Senate 2006-08.
2006-11 Temporary Chairperson of Committees of
the Senate Judith Troeth
President of the Liberal Party of Victoria 1982-92, Country Vice-President
1989-92, Chairperson of the Foreign Affairs-Defence and Trade Committee of the
Senate 1996-97, Parliamentary Secretary of Primary
Industries and Energy 1997-98, Parliamentary Secretary of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
1998-2004.
(b. 1940-)
2008-10 Deputy Speaker Anna Burke
2010-11 Member of the
Speaker's Panel
2011-12 Deputy Speaker
2012 Acting Speaker
2012-13
Speaker
Labour MP from 1998. (b. 1966-).
2008-11 Member of the Speaker’s Panel of the House of Representatives Judith Moylan
2008-10 Temporary Chairperson of
Committees of the Senate Carol Louise Brown
Deputy Government Whip in the Senate from 2010.
2008 Temporary Chairperson of Committees of the Senate Anne McEwen
2008-13 Member of the Speaker's Panel of the House of Representatives Sharon Leah Bird
2011-13 Member of the Speaker's Panel of the House of
Representatives Yvette Maree D’Ath
Parliamentary Secretary in 2013.
2011-13 Member of the Speaker's Panel of the House of Representatives Kirsten Fiona Livermore
2011-13 Member of the Speaker's Panel of the House of
Representatives Maria Vamvakinou
2013-16 Member of the Speaker's Panel of
the House of Representatives Natasha Griggs
The 2 Deputy Speakers and the 6
other members of the panel were all male
2015- Member of the Speaker's
Panel of the House of Representatives Michelle Landry
2016- Deputy
President and Chair of Committees of the Senate Sue Linesy
Labour Senator
from 2013. (b. 1953-).
2016- Temporary Chairperson of
Committees of the Senate Linda Reynolds
2016- Member of the Speaker's
Panel of the House of Representatives Lucy Elizabeth Wicks
Last update 12.12.16