- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1236
Tehan, Marie Therese
(1940 – 2004)- Nationality Australian
- Born 19 June, 1940, Melbourne Victoria Australia
- Died 31 October, 2004, Nagambie Victoria Australia
- Occupation Lawyer, Parliamentarian
Summary
A member of the Liberal party of Australia, Marie Tehan served in both Houses of the Victorian Parliament. She was the Member for Central Highlands in the Legislative Council from 1987-92 and for Seymour in the Legislative Assembly from 1992 until 1999, when she retired. As a minister in the Kennett Liberal Government she held the portfolios of Minister for Health from 1992-96 and Minister for Conservation and Land Management from 1996-99.
Details
Educated at Sacre Coeur, Glen Iris, Melbourne and the University of Melbourne, Marie Tehan qualified as a lawyer. She married Jim Tehan in 1963 and settled in regional Victoria.
After producing six children she established her own legal practice in Mansfield, Victoria in 1970.
She was elected to the Victorian Parliament in 1987 at a by-election and retired from Parliament in 1999. She died at Nagambie after a short illness on 31 October 2004.
Published resources
- Edited Book
- Book
- Booklet
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Site Exhibition
- Carrying on the Fight: Women Candidates in Victorian Parliamentary Elections, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2008, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/cws/home.html
- Australian Women Lawyers as Active Citizens, http://www.womenaustralia.info/lawyers/biogs/AWE1236b.htm
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Resource
- Trove: Tehan, Marie Therese (1940-2004), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-727079