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词条 Jessie Cooper
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  1. Pre-parliament

  2. Entering parliament

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Use Australian English|date=May 2011}}{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2011}}Jessie Mary Cooper (née McAndrew; 29 June 1914[1]{{spaced ndash}}28 December 1993[2]) was elected as a Liberal and Country League[3] representative to the South Australian Legislative Council at the 1959 election. She was the first female member of the Parliament of South Australia, beating Joyce Steele, who had been elected to the House of Assembly the same day, by only an hour.[4] She served until her retirement in 1979.[5]

Pre-parliament

Jessie McAndrew was born and grew up in Sydney. She married Geoffrey D T Cooper, who was the youngest appointed Australian Lieutenant Colonel in World War II, commanding officer of the 2/27th,[6] and a fourth generation member of the Adelaide Cooper family (Coopers Brewery). They had one son who qualified M.B.B.S. and Ph.D. and worked in immunology research before taking his father's seat on the Cooper's board of directors in 1989 and working as a general medical practitioner.[7]

Entering parliament

Ironically, South Australia was the last state to elect a female representative – at the 1896 election, South Australian women became the first in Australia, and some of the first in the world, to be given the right to vote and stand for election to Parliament. Cooper and Joyce Steele were elected to the Parliament of South Australia at the 1959 election.[8][8]

In 1959, attempts were still being made to prevent women entering Parliament. In an action brought by Frank Chapman and Arthur Cockington, Jessie Cooper and Margaret Scott (the Liberal party and Labor party candidates respectively, running for the Legislative Council in the South Australian election), had to show that they were "persons" in the sense intended by the State Constitution to be eligible to stand. The South Australian Supreme Court found in their favour and Jessie Cooper went on to win a seat in the Legislative Council.[9]

Reporters asked Joyce Steele and Jessie Cooper how they would combine their domestic duties with politics: Steele said that she would have to get a housekeeper to help with the housework, while Cooper replied that "... she would fit in her housework in the same way as a male member fitted in the running of an orchard or an accountant's office." (Sydney Morning Herald, 9 March 1959. p. 1)[10]

Molly Byrne was Labor's first female elected to the Parliament of South Australia, at the 1965 election, and the third behind Steele and Cooper.

See also

  • Women and government in Australia
  • Women in the South Australian Legislative Council

References

1. ^roots.web: Walker/Lyle Genealogy
2. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.womenshistory.com.au/image.asp?iID=322 | title=Jessie Cooper (R) MLC SA 1959-79 & Joyce Steele MHA SA 1959-73 | work=Australian Women's History Forum | year=2009 | accessdate=3 May 2011 | archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5yQ61sJrA | archivedate=3 May 2011}}
3. ^{{Citation | author1=Fitzherbert, Margaret | title=Liberal women : federation - 1949 | publication-date=2004 | publisher=Federation Press | isbn=978-1-86287-460-2 }}
4. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.pioneerwomen.com.au/womensplace.htm | title=A Woman's Place is in the House: Women Pioneers in Australian Parliament | publisher=National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame | accessdate=3 May 2011 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090331234607/http://www.pioneerwomen.com.au/womensplace.htm | archivedate=3 May 2011}}
5. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE3984b.htm | title=Cooper, Jessie Mary (1914 - 1993) | publisher=The National Foundation for Australian Women | work=The Australian Women's Register | date=17 December 2008 | accessdate=3 May 2011 | author=Francis, Rosemary | archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5yQ6wgtWs | archivedate=3 May 2011}}
6. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.rusinsw.org.au/Papers/2010W07.pdf | title=Conflict in Command During the Kokoda Campaign of 1942: Did General Blamey Deserve the Blame? | work= Royal United Services Institute of New South Wales| author=Tracey, Rowan | page=7 | archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5yQ8RcPSY | archivedate=4 May 2011}}
7. ^[https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=13651665&capId=9672984&previousCapId=9672984&previousTitle=Coopers%20Brewery%20Limited James McAndrew Cooper MBBS, Ph.D., MA], www.bloomberg.com
8. ^{{Citation | author1=Jenkins, Cathy | title=No ordinary lives : pioneering women in Australian politics | publication-date=2008 | publisher=Australian Scholarly Publishing | isbn=978-1-74097-156-0 }}
9. ^1 {{cite journal | url=http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/publications.nsf/0/8e817c955283f747ca2572d100087573/$FILE/WomenParliamentMediaFinal.pdf | title=Women, Parliament and the Media | author=Drabsch, Talina | journal=NSW Parliamentary Library Research Service |date=April 2007 | page=4 | isbn=978-0-7313-1819-3 | issn=1325-5142 | oclc=225645404 | archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5yQ9cPxBX | archivedate=4 May 2011}}
10. ^{{cite journal | url=http://ejournalist.com.au/v2n1/cathy.pdf | title=The More Things Change: Women, Politics, and the Press in Australia | author=Jenkins, Cathy | journal=EJournalist: A Refereed Media Journal | year=2002 | volume=2 | issue=1 | pages=1–22 | archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/5yQAdIa3G | archivedate=4 May 2011 | oclc=669644339}}

External links

  • Jessie Cooper interviewed by Amy McGrath, [sound recording, ca. 43 mins.], 1 May 1980.
  • Jessie Cooper Study Grants for Mature Entry Women, Flinders University of South Australia.
  • The important supportive role of the League of Women Voters, State Library of South Australia.
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8 : 1914 births|1993 deaths|Liberal and Country League politicians|Members of the South Australian Legislative Council|People from Sydney|20th-century Australian politicians|20th-century women politicians|Women members of the South Australian Legislative Council
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