| Bib ID |
728124 |
| Format |
Audio, Online, Online - Google Books |
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| Online Versions |
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| Access Conditions |
Access open for research, personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
1972 Mar. 13-22.
2 tape reels ; 5 in.
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| Series |
Mel Pratt collection.
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| Summary |
Dame Enid comments on her husband's schooling, interests and persuasiveness; George Pearce; Joe's "illiteracy"; his character; myth of support of Victorian establishment; his relationship with Casey; his qualifications for political eminence; her conversion to Catholicism; accusation of her dominating Joe; conscription; Father O'Donnell; her early life in Tasmania; King O'Malley; educational changes in Tasmania; Mr Neale; honeymoon at the Premiers' Conference; Mrs Holman; the Labor Party and class consciousness; interest in politics; Blackburn interpretation; problems faced by Joe as Premier; relationship with trade unions; Lyons entry into Federal government; difference between Federal and Tasmanian Labor Parties; Lyons as Acting Treasurer; break with Labor Party; standards of values in politics; Theodore; Albert Ogilvie; conversion of loan campaign; Nationalist Party; relations between UAP and Country Party; Frank Green; Catholic education; Australian Women's National League and United Australia party; preparing Australia for war; Lyons' relationship with Menzies; Menzies and Murdoch; Menzies and Mussolini; Munich Crisis; Germany and Czechoslovakia; Chamberlain; Lyons' death; the Baldwins; her running for Parliament; opposition from the Labor party; Dorothy Tangney; attitude of colleagues to women in parliament; Calwell and immigration; her relationship with Menzies; Menzies' attacks on Curtin; her maiden speech; workload as a politician; endowment for first child; inclusion in Cabinet; Henry Gullet; leakages from Cabinet; retirement from politics; experiences in journalism; Australian Broadcasting Commission; Boyer; being made Dame Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire.
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| Biography/History |
Dame Enid Lyons was the wife of Prime Minister Joseph Lyons. She was also the first woman elected to the House of Representatives and first woman member of Federal Cabinet. |
| Notes |
Recorded at her daughter's home in Canberra.
Also available online via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.oh-vn728124
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Timed summary (11 p) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 62 leaves) |
| Subjects |
Lyons, Enid Muriel, - Dame, - 1897-1981 - Interviews. | Women - Political activity - Australia - Interviews. | Prime ministers' spouses - Australia - Interviews.
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| Other authors/contributors |
Pratt, Mel
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| Related records |
Mel Pratt collection
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