Ladies in the House: Janine Haines
History Detective
English - July 29, 2021 18:00 - 5 minutes - 5.22 MBHistory Kids & Family Education for Kids teachers students history music original women song writer world war 11 australian history awesome history podcast Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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This is a Museum of Australian Democracy and History Detective Collaboration.
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In this 3-part series we are going to celebrate the lives of three incredible women who worked in Old Parliament House- the building that now houses the Museum of Australian Democracy- and we will explore how these significant women contributed to Australian democracy.
Within 10 years of being elected as a Senator, she had become the leader of the Australian Democrat Party. This was the first time in Australian history that a woman had led a political party.
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