Meet Irene Longman, the first woman to be elected into Queensland Parliament in 1929.

Could you imagine living in a society where when they were designing the parliament house, they didn’t even bother to put a female toilet in? Well, in 1929 Irene Maud Longman broke the glass ceiling in Queensland that women could stand for and be elected into QLD Parliament. 

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Reflection Questions:

1. Research the term Glass Ceiling. What does this term mean, and does it have other applications other than politics?
2. Explain why Irene thought it was important to have female police officers?
3. How do political candidates tell people about their policies today? How does this differ from methods from more than 90 years ago?
4. In her campaign leaflet Longman said, 'there can be no true democracy where only one sex is directly represented in parliament'. What is the implicit meaning of this statement?
5. When QLD parliament house was built, there were no female toilets. What does this implicitly tell us about the role of women at this time?

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