Mabel Miller
Dame Mabel Miller DBE | |
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| Member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Franklin | |
| In office 19 February 1955 – 2 May 1964 | |
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| Born | Mabel Flora Goodheart 30 November 1906 Staff officer |
Dame Mabel Flora Miller, DBE (30 November 1906 – 30 December 1978[1]) was an Australian lawyer and politician. She was the first woman elected to the Hobart City Council[2] and one of the first two women to be elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly.[1]
Early life
Born in
She married Alan John Richmond Miller (died 1965) on 24 July 1930 at St. George's Anglican Church, Hobart. They settled in Tasmania and had a daughter.
Military and community service
During
Political career
Miller decided to enter local politics when she heard there was mismanagement occurring in the Hobart City Council. She was elected to the council in 1952; she spent 20 years on the council her first sitting ended in 1955 when she was elected to the House of Assembly in 1955 as the member for Franklin. Amelia Best was also elected in 1955. She remained in parliament until 1964. After her time in parliament she returned to the council, serving as deputy mayor from 1964 to 1970; she unsuccessfully stood for mayor in 1970, and resigned in 1972.
In 1967 she was the Australian representative on the United Nations' Status of Women Commission, and an Australian delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
Damehood and recognition
Miller was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire for "distinguished public service" on 1 January 1967.
In 2009 Miller was posthumously inducted to the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women for service to Government and to the Community.
Death
Dame Mabel Miller died on 30 December 1978, in a New Town, Tasmania nursing home,[3] aged 72, from undisclosed causes, and was cremated.
References
- ^ a b "Miller, Mabel". Members of the Parliament of Tasmania. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
- ^ Miller, Mabel Flora, Australian Women
- ^ "Miller, Mabel Flora - Woman - The Australian Women's Register". www.womenaustralia.info. Retrieved 15 February 2022.
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