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Dame Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin DBE (28 July 190830 August 1986) was the second woman member of the Australian Senate, the first woman from Queensland to sit in the Parliament of Australia, the first Australian woman to have a federal portfolio and the first Australian woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission. ==Biography== Rankin was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 28 July 1908, the daughter of Colin Dunlop Wilson Rankin (a former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland) and Annabelle Davidson (née Thomson).〔Queensland Registrar-General of Births, Deaths & Marriages〕 The family lived in Brooklyn House, Howard (now heritage-listed). She attended primary school in Childers and Howard. She attended secondary school at Glennie Memorial School in Toowoomba. She was well known in the community for her public service though the CWA, Guides Australia, Red Cross and YWCA. Rankin was elected to the Senate in the 1946 election, as a representative of the Liberal Party. Her term began on 1 July 1947. She was the first woman appointed as Opposition Whip in the Senate and, following the election of the Menzies government in 1949, also served as Government Whip in the Senate. On 26 January 1966, Prime Minister Harold Holt appointed her Minister for Housing in his first ministry. From 1968-71 she was a joint "Father" of the Senate. She resigned from the Senate in 1971 and was made High Commissioner to New Zealand, a post she held to 1974. Following her retirement she returned to Brisbane where she continued to be involved in voluntary organisations. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Annabelle Rankin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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