- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0243
Tangney, Dorothy Margaret
(1907 – 1985)- Born 13 March, 1907, North Perth Western Australia Australia
- Died 3 June, 1985, Wembley Western Australia Australia
- Occupation Parliamentarian
Summary
In the Queen’s Birthday list (8 June 1968) Dorothy Tangney became the first Western Australian born woman to be appointed Dames Commander of the British Empire for services to the Western Australia Parliament. She was a senator for Western Australia in the Senate of the Australian Parliament from 1943 until she retired in 1968.
Details
A former schoolteacher Dorothy Tangney became the first woman member of the Australian Senate. An advocate for health and welfare, she served on the Joint Committee on Social Security 1943-1946 and served as a senator from 1943 until she retired in 1968. Dorothy Tangney featured on the 45c stamp (1973) and the electoral division of Tangney in Western Australia is named after her. Also in 1999 the street, formerly known as Administration Place (Canberra), was changed to Dorothy Tangney Place. In the Queen’s Birthday list (8 June 1968) Dorothy Tangney became the first Western Australian born woman to be appointed Dames Commander of the British Empire for services to the Western Australian Parliament.
Events
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2001 - 2001
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Published resources
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Book
- Reflections : profiles of 150 women who helped make Western Australia's history; Project of the Womens Committee for the 150th Anniversary Celebrations of Western Australia, Popham, Daphne; Stokes, K.A.; Lewis, Julie, 1979
- No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics, Jenkins, Cathy, 2008
- So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, Fitzherbert, Margaret, 2009
- Edited Book
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Resource Section
- List of Electoral Divisions Named After Women, Australian Electoral Commission, http://www.aec.gov.au/history/women/women3.htm
- Journal Article
- Book Section
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Thesis
- Australia's first woman senator: Dorothy Tangney B.A., Dip. Ed, Wall, Judith, 1962, http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au/search~S1?/Xdorothy+tangney&searchscope=1&Da=&Db=&p=&SORT=D/Xdorothy+tangney&searchscope=1&Da=&Db=&p=&SORT=D&SUBKEY=dorothy%20tangney/1%2C11%2C11%2CB/frameset&FF=Xdorothy+tangney&searchscope=1&Da=&Db=&p=&SORT=D&6%2C6%2C
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Site Exhibition
- Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders
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Resource
- Trove: Tangney, Dorothy Margaret, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-728052