- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE2077
Chadwick, Virginia Anne
- Honourable, AO
- Born 19 December 1944, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
- Died 18 September 2009, Toronto, New South Wales, Australia
- Occupation Businesswoman, Parliamentarian, Teacher
Summary
Virginia Chadwick is a member of the Liberal Party. She was a member of the directly elected Legislative Council. Dates of Election 7 October 1978 and 19 March 1988.
Parliamentary career highlights
Minister for Family and Community Services, 1988-1990
Minister for School Education and Youth Affairs, 1990-1992
Minister for Education and Youth Affairs and Minister for Employment and Training, 1992-93
Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Minister for Tourism and Minister Assisting the Premier, 1993-1995
Opposition Whip, 1984-1988
Virginia Chadwick was the President of the Legislative Council 1998-1999. She was the first woman Opposition Whip and woman to gain ministerial appointment in a Liberal Government.
Granted retention of title of “Honourable” for life.
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: Chadwick, Virginia Anne (1944-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-748069