The Australian Women's Register

Marilyn Dodkin joined the ALP in 1976, and held office at local and electorate level. She was a delegate to Annual Conference many times and in 1986 was a proxy delegate to the National Conference.

Marilyn completed a Bacheloir of Arts at the University of New England, a Master of Arts at the University of Sydney and a PhD at Macquarie University. She worked as Research Officer for Gary Punch MP 1983, and in 1984 became the Administration Officer of the Australian Workers Union. She served on the North Sydney Technical and Further Education Committee and was a founding member of the Status of Women Committee which encouraged women to participate in politics.

Marilyn married in 1961 and had two daughters. She is the author of Brothers: eight leaders of the Labor Council of NSW (UNSW Press, 2001), Bob Carr, the reluctant leader (UNSW Press, 2003) and Goodnight Bobby: one family’s war (UNSW Press, 2006).