- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE2040
Watson, Shirley Ann
- Occupation Consultant, Nurse
Summary
Shirley Watson was a once only candidate who represented the Liberal Party in the 1981 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Earlwood. Her campaign literature showed her to have been particularly concerned with health issues, hospital staff shortages and the lack of rehabilitation services then available. Shirley Watson was educated at P.L.C., Pymble, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the University of Sydney (Dip. Labour Relations and Law). From 1967 she operated a personnel consulting firm and was active in the Personnel services industry.
Published resources
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Site Exhibition
- Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2006, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/pssb/home.html
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Resource
- Trove: Watson, Shirley Ann, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-762071