• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE0201

Reynolds, Margaret

  • The Honourable, Senator, Professor
(1941 – )
  • Born 19 July 1941, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
  • Occupation Academic, Parliamentarian

Summary

Margaret Reynolds was a Senator for Queensland from 1983 until 1999. First elected to the Senate in 1983, she was re-elected in 1984, 1987 and 1993. Reynolds worked as primary and remedial teacher then a tutor before entering parliament. She also served on the Townsville City Council from 1979-1983. Reynolds’ responsibilities have included: Federal Government representative on the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation 1992-1995; Minister assisting PM on Status of Women 1988-1990; Chair of the Parliamentary Adviser to the United Nations; and Minister for Local Government 1987-1990. Reynolds has been a member of the Australian Labor Party since 1971, and has held many positions in the ALP.

Reynolds retired from parliamentary politics in 1999. She is now the National President of the United Nations Association of Australia and an Adjunct Professor and Sessional Lecturer in the School of Political science and international studies, University of Queensland.

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
    • Interview with Professor Margaret Reynolds, academic and human rights consultant [sound recording] / interviewer, Diana Giese
  • National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
    • Papers of Margaret Reynolds, 1973-2005 [manuscript]
  • National Library of Australia
    • [Biographical cuttings on Margaret Reynolds, politician, containing one or more cuttings from newspapers or journals]
  • Fryer Library, The University of Queensland
    • Letters to Margaret 1999

Published resources

  • Report
    • Final report, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Telecommunications Technologies., 1992
    • Interim report on telephone services, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Telecommunications Technologies., 1991
    • Report, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Telecommunications Technologies., 1993
    • Report on 0055 reverse phone directory service, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies., 1993
    • Report on telephone message services, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Telecommunications Technologies., 1992
    • Report on video and computer games and classification issues, Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Electronic Technologies., 1993
    • Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Telecommunications Technology [i.e. Technologies] : (official Hansard report), Australia. Parliament. Senate. Select Committee on Community Standards Relevant to the Supply of Services Utilising Telecommunications Technologies., 1991-1994
  • Book
    • The last bastion: Labor women working towards equality in the parliaments of Australia, Reynolds, Margaret, 1995
  • Resource Section
  • Book Section
    • HERstory: Australian Labor Women in Federal, State and Territory Parliaments 1925-1994, 1994
  • Edited Book
    • Who's Who in Australia 2002, Herd, Margaret, 2002
  • Resource

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  • Related Concepts
    • Women in Politics: Australian Labor Party

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