Australian Women's Register

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne

Skip to content

Browse Entries

Exhibitions

  • Putting Skirts on the Sacred Benches: Women Candidates for the New South Wales Parliament

Use Trove to find more resources by/about this Woman

  • Trove

Phillips, Edna

Summary

Edna Phillips is a once only candidate for election. She stood as the One Nation candidate in the 2003 elections for the New South Wales Legislative Assembly seat of Wallsend.

Details

Edna Phillips gave her address as Ashfield, a suburb of Sydney, when she ran for the seat of Wallsend in the Hunter Valley Region. She did not give any further information to the Newcastle Morning Herald, and although placed first on the ballot paper, polled only 3.3% of the votes cast.

Sources used to compile this entry: Newcastle Morning Herald, 14 March 2003.

Published resources

The Australian Women's Register Exhibitions

Online Resources

Annette Alafaci

Created: 14 December 2005, Last modified: 7 February 2006

Comments

Leave a comment

Comment guidelines

(required)
(required)

Site-wide information and acknowledgements

National Foundation for Australian Women The University of Melbourne, eScholarship Research Centre

http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE1719b.htm

The Australian Women's Register is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Australia License