Talk:Australian federal election, 1977

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[edit] 1977 - last time (almost certainly ever) no women were elected to the House of Reps

Between December 1975 and October 1980, when Joan Child, Elaine Darling and Ros Kelly were elected (re-elected in Child's case), there were no women members of the House of Reps. Women have been elected at every election from 1980 onwards, and it is unthinkable this would ever change. The 1977 outcome for women was much commented on in the media and amongst feminist groups, and it provided a spur to the Affirmative action campaign in Australia. I believe that the fact that 1977 was the latest (and likely to be the last ever) general election at which no women members were elected to the House of Reps is highly significant, and worth noting in the article. I've re-edited the article accordingly. -- JackofOz 04:19, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Any idea which media? (Not disagreeing with you but I think sources would actually be positive as people could go and read more about it) None of the news search engines goes back to 1977 (best ones go back to 1996), but I'd be prepared to look in about 2 weeks if I knew where to look. Orderinchaos 09:39, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Sorry, can't help. I did do a thorough search before I made the edit, but nothing came up. I was expecting to see something relevant as a link to the Affirmative Action article, but there's no mention of Australia in the article at all, very surprisingly. -- JackofOz 09:50, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Yeah most stuff in Australia is offline in libraries :( I've been hunting down stuff (reasonably successfully) for WA political history articles. Orderinchaos 10:14, 24 October 2007 (UTC)