Margaret Guilfoyle

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Dame Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle AC DBE (birth name: Margaret Georgina Constance McCarthy ; born May 15, 1926 in Belfast , Northern Ireland ) is a former Australian politician of the Liberal Party of Australia .

Life

The daughter of a family who immigrated from Northern Ireland in 1928 initially worked as an accountant and later studied at the Australian National University (ANU). As a candidate for the Liberal Party of Australia, she was elected to the Australian Senate for the first time in 1971 and was a member of this for Victoria until 1987.

After the Liberal Party's electoral victory, Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser first appointed Minister of Education to his cabinet in 1975, where she was Minister for Social Affairs from 1975 to 1980 and Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister for Child Welfare Affairs from 1975 to 1976. After another cabinet reshuffle, she was most recently Finance Minister in Fraser's government from 1980 to 1983. After Enid Lyons and Annabelle Rankin, she was the third woman in an Australian federal government and the first to take over a key ministry with the Treasury.

In January 1980 she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire and from then on bore the suffix "Dame" and was also honored in June 2006 with the Order of Australia .

After leaving the Senate, she took on numerous honorary positions in society and was, among other things, director of the Australian Children's Television Foundation in 1989, director of the Jack Brockhoff Foundation in 1990 , and from 1993 to 1995 as the first woman president of the management of the Royal Melbourne Hospital and from 1995 to 2001 chairwoman of the Judicial Remuneration Tribunal.

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SURNAME Guilfoyle, Margaret
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guilfoyle, Lady Margaret Georgina Constance (full name); McCarthy, Margaret Georgina Constance (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian politician for the Liberal Party of Australia
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Belfast , Northern Ireland