Women in politics - Australia

Date: [1979]

By: Roberts, Heather Richenda, 1946-

Reference: MS-Papers-2058

Description: The article summarises her life, and appraises her work as a novelist, and her activities for the Australian Communist Party 1930-1940, from a feminist viewpoint Devanny was born Jane Crooks, 1894, in Ferntown, near Nelson, was married in 1911, and lived with her family in Queensland from 1929 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (20 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)

Date: 2010

From: Crichton, Anna, 1957- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0016028

Description: Shows Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard wearing a red dress and high heels. She carries over her shoulder a sad looking politician (probably independent Rob Oakeshott) in a curtain slung from a curtain rail. Julia Gillard has managed to cobble together a coalition comprising the Greens and independents Tony Windsor and Rob Oakeshott that has secured her the election. Published in New Zealand Herald Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Doyle, Martin Maurice Michael Thomas, 1956- :Digital cartoons

By: Scoop (Firm)

Reference: DCDL-0025207

Description: Cartoon shows a mock menu for the 'B Rough and Ready Restaurant', referencing a menu created by Brisbane restaurant owner Joe Richards, which featured an item called "Julia Gillard Kentucky Fried Quail." It is believed that the menu - described as including "small breasts, huge thighs and a big red box" - was intended for a Liberal National Party fundraising dinner to benefit candidate Mal Brough. Julia Gillard, Australia's first female Prime Minister, has faced rampant sexism throughout her term as Prime Minister, and stated that the menu showed a 'lack of respect for women.' (See The Guardian,12 June 2013). Commentary from the artist reads 'The sexually depraved menu linked to Australian Liberal Mal Brough's campaign in Queensland is the mark of someone (and maybe a party) that does not deserve to become the government on 14 September.' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2011

From: Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-: Digital cartoons published in New Zealand Herald

By: New Zealand herald (Newspaper); Body, Guy Keverne, 1967-

Reference: DCDL-0018991

Description: A woman does dishes in a shack in the heat and dust of the Australian interior while her fat, hairy and useless husband sits with a beercan on the verandah. The woman says 'I'm just trying to think what it is about Australia that produces such determined resilient women.' A newspaper headline reads 'New PM.' Context: Julia Gillard has become Australia's first woman Prime Minister. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).