Woman Cardell-Oliver, Annie Florence Gillies

DBE

Occupation
Politician

Written by Caitlin Stone, The University of Melbourne

Florence Cardell-Oliver was born in Stawell, Victoria in 1876. In 1949 she became the first woman in Australia to be appointed to a cabinet or ministry when she was made the Western Australian Minister for Health, Supply and Shipping. She died in 1965.

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