Pfitzner, Bernice

Entry type: Person
Entry ID: AWE4016

Occupation Medical practitioner, Parliamentarian

Summary

A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Bernice Pfitzner filled a casual vacancy in the Legislative Council of the Parliament of South Australia in 1990. An emigrant from Singapore and a medical practitioner by profession she was the second person of Chinese descent to be elected to the South Australian parliament. She was defeated at the 1997 election.

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Sound recording
- Interview with Dr the Hon Bernice Pfitzner, medical practitioner and Member of the Legislative Council, Pfitzner, Bernice, 1996, http://protocat.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Pfitzner||%20Bernice%22&iknowwhatimean=1
Edited Book
- Insight, courage & purpose : potential unlimited : proceedings of the conference [Non-English Cultural Background (NECB) International Women's Conference (Adelaide :, 1994)], Pfitzner, Bernice, 1995
Resource
- Trove: Pfitzner, Bernice, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-728054

Archival resources

State Library of South Australia
- Women in Politics: A Forum in the Centenary Year of Women's Suffrage [sound recording]
National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Bernice Pfitzner interviewed by Diana Giese for the Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project [sound recording]

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- Women in Politics: Liberal Party of Australia

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