Steele, Joyce Wilfred (1909-1991)

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A member of the Liberal and Country League, Joyce Steele was the first woman to be elected to the House of Assembly in the South Australian Parliament in 1959. She stood in the seat of Burnside. She was the first woman in the South Australian Parliament to achieve Cabinet rank as Minister for Education in the Hall Government from 1968-69, then moved to the Social Welfare Ministry in 1969. After major electoral reform in 1968, Steele stood for the new seat of Davenport at the 1970 state election and won convincingly. She retired before the 1973 election.

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  1. No ordinary lives: pioneering women in Australian politics
    Jenkins, Cathy
    [2008]
    Published: Australian Scholarly Publishing
  2. Liberal women : Federation to 1949
    Fitzherbert, Margaret
    [2004]
    Published: Federation Press
  3. State Library of South Australia: Liberal Party, S. A. Division : SUMMARY RECORD (1900 - 1997)
    Liberal Party records including the former Australian National League, Liberal Union, Liberal Federation and Liberal and Country League, comprising minutes, subject files, electoral papers, membership lists, reports, press cuttings, posters, publications, films, videos, sound recordings and photographs together with records of the Liberal Club Ltd and of the Young Liberal Movement. Also includes minutes and financial records of the Eyre State Electoral Committee. A selection of 57 photographs from series 1/58 has been digitised and is available to see on the South Australiana Database; do a NUMBER search on SRG 168/1/58/2-100
    SRG 168 PART OUTSIZE 1,6
  4. State Library of South Australia: Interview with Joyce Steele [sound recording] Interviewer: Anne Geddes (1984)
    Sound cassette, 58 minutes
    PRG 727/2/8
  5. State Library of South Australia: Recordings of Joyce Steele [sound recording] Interviewer: Meg Denton (1989 - 1991)
    A series of recordings of Joyce Steele, the first South Australian woman Member of the House of Assembly. OH 368/1 is an informal interview recorded over five sessions in late 1990 and early 1991 by Meg Denton who had met Mrs Steele while researching the career of dance teacher Joanna Priest. Ms Denton agreed to help Mrs Steele record some of her reminiscences, and the interview ranges widely over her childhood and early work experiences in Western Australia (including anecdotes about an employer, woman orthopedic surgeon Dr Radcliffe-Taylor), family history and experiences in politics. OH 368/2 is a recording of the speech made by Lance Milne at Mrs Steele's eigthieth birthday party in 1989. Her son Christopher Steele hosts the proceedings at which Mrs Steele speaks briefly
    OH 368

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