- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE1719
Phillips, Edna
- Occupation Political candidate
Summary
Edna Phillips is a once only candidate for election. She stood as the One Nation candidate in the 2003 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wallsend.
Details
Edna Phillips gave her address as Ashfield, a suburb of Sydney, when she ran for the seat of Wallsend in the Hunter Valley Region. She did not give any further information to the Newcastle Morning Herald, and although placed first on the ballot paper, polled only 3.3% of the votes cast.
Published resources
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Site Exhibition
- Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html
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Resource
- Trove: Phillips, Edna, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-757079