The Australian Women's Register

An idealist, Peggy May Cable ran for election twice. She was Australian Democrats candidate in the 1978 Wentworthville and 1981 Seven Hills elections.

Diane Beamer has represented Western Sydney at local and state government level and become a Minister of the Crown in New South Wales. As an ALP candidate she initially missed election to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Badgery’s Creek in 1991, but was successful in 1995. She was re-elected in 1999, 2003 and 2007, but as Member for Mulgoa on the abolition of the Badgery Creek electorate. She left the Ministry following the 2007 election and retired at the 2011 election. Diane was also a Councillor in the Penrith City Council (1989-95), Penrith’s Deputy Mayor (1992-93) and Mayor (1993-94).

A once-only candidate for parliamentary election, Anna Christina Booth stood as an ALP candidate in the Ku-ring-gai 1988 elections. She went on to become a highly successful executive.

A prominent unionist and social justice campaigner, Aileen Winifred Beaver ran as a Communist Party of Australia candidate for Auburn in 1978, for Elizabeth in 1981 and for the seat of Sydney in the House of Representatives in 1977, 1983 and 1984.

Kate Botting was a once only candidate who ran for the Australian Democrats in the seat of Bankstown at the 1999 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections.

A once-only candidate in an unwinnable seat of Redfern in 1959 for the Liberal Party. Mary Jane Beckett was Executive Secretary of Montefiore Home in Hunters Hill.

Kayleen Bounds was an active supporter of the One nation Party founded by Pauline Hanson. She ran for them in the 1999 New South Wales Legislative Assembly for East Hills and in the House of Representatives for the New England seat in 2001.

A once-only candidate, Catherine Bell ran for Earthsave Australia in the 1999 Blue Mountains election.

Sonia Bennett is an activist keen to protect the Australian Defence Industries site from redevelopment and helps in bush regeneration projects. She ran as a Save Our Suburbs candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (for the Londonderry seat) in 2003.

A committed Christian Democratic Party member, Ursula Bennett ran as a candidate for Bega in 2003 and then again in the House of Representatives for Eden Monaro in 2004.

Gladys Berejiklian is the first Armenian descendant to be elected to the NSW Parliament. As a member of the Liberal Party she was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (Willoughby seat) in 2003. She was re-elected in 2007, 2011 and 2015. Her positions in 2016 included Treasurer and Minister for Industrial Relations.

Shirley Berg is best known for her leadership of Public School Parents’ organisations. However, she was a member of the Australian Democrats and was their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly, for Fuller, in 1978.

Vivienne Berzin, an Australia Party candidate, contested three elections in two years, and never ran again. She was a candidate in the 1972 House of Representatives for Mitchell then in 1973 ran in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for both Northcott and Hawkesbury (by election).

Sally Betts only ran for parliament once (Liberal candidate for Waverley, New South Wales Legislative Assembly, 1988). She later ran for the Waverley Council and was elected to office from 1995 to 2007.

A politically active and socially involved medical practitioner, Tuntuni Bratati Bhattacharyya ran as a Democratic Socialist candidate in the 1999 Marrickville elections.

A once-only candidate, Anne Bi ran for the Unity party in the 2003 Baulkham Hills elections.

A once-only candidate, Elizabeth Anne R. Bishop stood as an ALP candidate in the 1978 Lane Cove elections.

Veronica Black is a student activist who stood as an ALP candidate in the unwinnable seat of Ballina in 1995.

Glenda Blanch has been an active member of the Australian Democrats in western Sydney. She stood as their candidate in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Campbelltown by election in 1999 and for the Werriwa seat in the House of Representatives in 2001. She also ran for a position in the Campbelltown Council in 2003.

Elaine Battersby was a member of the Christian Democrat Party who ran as a candidate for Newcastle in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 2003.

Patricia Boland was a highly qualified woman, though an unsuccessful candidate. She ran as a member of the Natural Law Party in the House of Representatives for Wentworth in 1993 and New South Wales Legislative Assembly for the Vaucluse seat in 1995.

Alison Bailey was an Australian Democrats candidate for Kogarah in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (2003) and in the House of Representatives for Banks (1996) and for Cook (2001). She was and elected member of the Hurstville City Council from 1991 to 1995.

Natalie Baini was a once-only candidate who ran for the Liberal Party in Canterbury in 1999.

A once-only candidate in the unwinnable seat of Upper Hunter for the ALP in 1995.

A once-only candidate who ran for the Liberal Party in Lake Macquarie in 1981.

An environmentalist and local and political activist. Jane Bange was an Australian Greens Party candidate for South Coast in 1999 and 2003, and in the House of Representatives for Gilmore in 1998 and 2001. She was a member of the Shoalhaven City Council between 1999 and 2004.

Agnes Bannon was a committed Democratic Labor Party member who ran for election three times: for Burwood in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in1973 and for Lowe in the House of Representatives in 1969 and in 1972.