Education
Stowport and Burnie state schools
the Teacher's Training College, Hobart
Stowport and Burnie state schools
the Teacher's Training College, Hobart
This is the first occasion on which a woman has addressed this house. For that reason it is an occasion which for every woman in the Commonwealth marks in some degree a turning point in history. Dame Enid was a politician
who cared about people and their problems.She retired from Parliament at the age of 51. She was a newspaper columnist (1951–54), a commissioner of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1951–62), and remained active in public life promoting family and women's issues. Enid Lyons worked as a newspaper columnist and author.
When she was 17, she married Joseph Lyons, then a young Labor politician aged 35. They had twelve children.