- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE0372
Haines, Janine
- AM
- Born 8 May 1945, Tanunda, South Australia, Australia
- Died 20 November 2004, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Occupation Politician
Summary
On 11 June 2001, Haines became a Member of the Order of Australia ‘for service to the Australian Parliament and to politics, particularly as Parliamentary Leader of the Australian Democrats, and to the community.’
Haines was appointed to the Senate to fill a casual vacancy in South Australia in 1977. In 1986 she became the first woman to lead an Australian political party when she was elected leader of the Australian Democrats.
(Source: http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours_list/resultDetail.cfm?awardsID=709341 accessed 17/04/2002 and Emma Grahame in Australian Feminism: A Companion.)
Details
Haines spent her early family years growing up in country South Australia, settling in Adelaide by the time she attended Brighton High School. She was elected Deputy leader of the Australian Democrats in 1985; elected to the position of Federal leader in 1986 which she held until 1990. Since 1990 she had taken on a number of roles; as a freelance writer and speaker; involvement in a number of organizations; as a member of Parliamentary delegations to South Africa and Iraq.
Events
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2001
Inducted into the Victorian Honour Roll of Women
Archival resources
- State Library of South Australia
- National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- National Library of Australia
- National Library of Australia, Manuscript Collection
- Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection
Published resources
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Resource
- Trove: Haines, Janine (1945-2004), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-567533
- Edited Book
- Book
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Site Exhibition
- The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia, Smart, Judith and Swain, Shurlee (eds.), 2014, http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders