Who’s Who

(5 January 1931- )

MLC Victoria 1979-92, Parliamentarian

In July 1979 Joan Coxsedge became the first woman member of the Legislative Council of Victoria, holding the Melbourne West electorate for the Australian Labor Party until August 1992.

Organisation: Australian Labor Party

Links:

Parliament of Victoria Biographical Register

Carrying on the Fight: Exhibition on Women in Victorian Parliamentary Elections

Joan Coxsedge featured in WHM 2009 Gallery Parliamentary Women

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Joan Coxsedge (holding banner) pictured at a May Day rally in Melbourne in 1981. University of Melbourne Archives: UMA/1/467