The Australian Women's Register

Joanne Jones is a once only candidate for election: she was an Independent in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Rockdale in 1999.

Judy Lambert was a once only candidate for election to the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales when she stood as a Greens candidate in 1999 for the seat of Manly. She has however, been a local government councillor for two terms (Manly Council, 1999-2007) and is an outstanding environmental scientist.

Michelle Jones represented the Call to Australia party at the 1995 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Moorebank.

Emanuela Lang represented the Australian Democrats in two elections; firstly in 1996 in the House of Representatives for Werriwa and then in the 1999 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Macquarie Fields.

Bev Hopkins was a Christian Democrat Party candidate in the 1999 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wyong.

Mary Howlett represented the Australian Democrats in the 1991 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Peats.

Ann Hughes stood as a Natural Law Party candidate in the 1995 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of East Hills.

Beryl Humble was a local councillor in Maitland for more than two decades from 1974-1997. At some point during this time she held the post of Deputy Mayor. The Beryl Humble Sporting Complex at Tenambit was named in her honour. In 1978, as a Liberal Party candidate, she failed to gain election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Waratah. That was the only time she ran for Parliament.

In 1995 Margaret Hutton was an Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for South Coast.

Anne Irvine was an Australian Democrats candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Tamworth in 1984.

Carrie Jacobi may well be the only woman who ran for two Federal elections in the same year: she was a Greens candidate in the 1998 elections to the House of Representatives for Lyne and Newcastle (postponed election). Prior to this she had run in the 1995 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Newcastle. In 1996 Carrie Jacobi was a member of the History Department of the University of Newcastle.

An active member of the Australian Democrats, Rachael Jacobs was a candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Epping in 1999 and for the Australian Capital Territory Senate in 2004.

Margaret Hawkins was an Independent candidate for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Upper Hunter in 1991.

Jamieson, Maree Ann stood as an Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Heathcote in 1981.

Leone Rachel Hay an Independent candidate for three elections: the NSW Senate in 1990 and 1993, and for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Gordon in 1995.

Christine Jarvis was a once only candidate who stood for the Australian Democrats in the 1988 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Fairfield.

Susan Healy was an Australia Party candidate in three elections:
New South Wales Legislative Assembly, Corrimal, 1973.
House of Representatives, Cunningham, 1974.
House of Representatives, Macarthur, 1975.

Dorothy Isabel Jeffrey was an ALP candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Pittwater in 1973.

Margaret Henry stood as an Independent in the 1988 Newcastle elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

Doris Jobling was a radical union organiser, who spent many decades on the front line of political campaigns, particularly in the area of education. She was a Communist Party of Australia candidate in the 1971 King elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.

Michelle Herfurth represented the Australian Democrats at the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Gordon in 1991.

Cheryl Hill was well known and respected in Canberra. She was a Liberal Party member in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly election for Bulli in 1991 and in the House of Representatives election for Fraser in 1996. The following year she stood as an Independent in the Fraser by election. She resigned from the Liberal Party prior to the by-election of 1997, because of the party’s attitude to race and immigration. In August 2002, Cheryl Hill was named as a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rotary club of Canberra South.

Pip Hinman is a political activist who represented the Socialist Alliance in the following elections: New South Wales Senate in 2001 and the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Marrickville by-election in 2005.

Donna Stephanie Hoban, an Independent, ran in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Bankstown in 1981.

Kerri Hamer’s first candidature was when she ran as an Independent for the Maroubra by-election in 2005. She is the author of Leading a Group: a practical and comprehensive handbook, published in 1997.

Sally Harg was an Independent candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Clarence in 1995.

Louise Jayne Hargreaves, a Natural Law Party member, ran in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections for Davidson in 1995 and for the House of Representatives seat of Chifley in 1996.