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    Dame Enid Lyons met her future husband Joseph Lyons as a teenager and they formed a strong political and personal partnership, with Joseph later becoming prime minister. When Joseph tragically died, leaving Enid a widow, she decided to enter politics herself. In 1943, at age forty-six, Enid became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Australian history.

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    Dame Enid Lyons met her future husband Joseph Lyons as a teenager and they formed a strong political and personal partnership, with Joseph later becoming prime minister. When Joseph tragically died, leaving Enid a widow, she decided to enter politics herself. In 1943, at age forty-six, Enid became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Australian history.

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    Dame Enid Lyons met her future husband Joseph Lyons as a teenager and they formed a strong political and personal partnership, with Joseph later becoming prime minister. When Joseph tragically died, leaving Enid a widow, she decided to enter politics herself. In 1943, at age forty-six, Enid became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in Australian history.

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    HOW DAME ENID LYONS

    BECAME A POLITICIAN

    As a teenager, Dame Enid Lyons met a schoolteacher


    who she later married.

    His name was Joseph Lyons and he later went on to


    become prime minister. Together they formed a
    strong political and personal partnership.

    Tragedy struck when Joseph died, leaving Enid a


    widow. In 1943, at the age of forty-six she became
    the first woman elected to the House of
    Representatives, a defining point in Australian history

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