• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE4016

Pfitzner, Bernice

  • Occupation Medical practitioner, Parliamentarian

Summary

A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Bernice Pfitzner filled a casual vacancy in the Legislative Council of the Parliament of South Australia in 1990. An emigrant from Singapore and a medical practitioner by profession she was the second person of Chinese descent to be elected to the South Australian parliament. She was defeated at the 1997 election.

Archival resources

  • State Library of South Australia
    • Women in Politics: A Forum in the Centenary Year of Women's Suffrage [sound recording]
  • National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
    • Bernice Pfitzner interviewed by Diana Giese for the Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project [sound recording]

Published resources

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    • Women in Politics: Liberal Party of Australia