Doris Amelia Blackburn (September 18, 1889 – 12 December 1970) was an Australian activist and Member of Parliament. Events 96 - Nerva is proclaimed Roman Emperor after Domitian is assassinated Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 627 - Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II 's Persian Year 1970 ( MCMLXX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link shows full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Australia topics.
She was born Doris Amelia Hordern in Melbourne, Victoria, and became involved in women's rights and peace issues from a young age and served as the campaign secretary of Vida Goldstein, the first woman to stand for election to federal parliament in Australia. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Vida Jane Mary Goldstein ( April 13, 1869 – August 15, 1949) was an Australian early Feminist reformer and politician She married Maurice Blackburn, a fellow firebrand socialist, in 1914 and spent their honeymoon organising anti-war and anti-conscription campaigns. Maurice McCrae Blackburn ( 19 November 1880 - 31 March 1944) Australian politician and lawyer was born in Inglewood Victoria Socialism refers to a broad set of economic theories of social organization advocating state or collective ownership and administration of the Means of production and distribution Conscription (also known as the draft, the call-up or national service) is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by some established authority
While her husband served at different times as a Labor member of the Victorian and Federal parliaments, Blackburn continued to work on social issues, some of which brought her into conflict with the Labor Party (of which she too was a member) and following Maurice’s expulsion from the party in 1937, Doris resigned from the ALP. The Parliament of Victoria is a Bicameral, or two-house legislature The Parliament of Australia or Commonwealth Parliament is the legislative branch of government of Australia. Maurice continued to sit in parliament as an independent but lost his seat at the 1943 federal election to the official Labor candidate, and died the following year.
Upset at Labor’s treatment of her husband, Doris stood as an Independent Labour candidate for Maurice’s old seat of Bourke at the 1946 election, winning it and in doing so became only the second woman to be elected to the Australian House of Representatives. The Division of Bourke was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The House of Representatives is one of the two houses (chambers of the Parliament of Australia; it is the Lower house, the Upper house being the Senate In parliament Blackburn, who shared the cross benches with fellow former Labor member Jack Lang[1], championed similar issues to her late husband, gaining nationwide notoriety in 1947 as the only MP to vote against the Atomic Energy Bill, and served as the national President of the Council for Civil Liberties. John Thomas Lang ( 21 December 1876 - 27 September 1975) Australian politician usually referred to as J Following an electoral redistribution, her seat of Bourke was abolished, leaving Blackburn to run for the newly established seat of Wills, which she lost to the Labor Party. The Division of Bourke was an Australian Electoral Division in Victoria. The Division of Wills is an Australian electoral division (electorate of Victoria.
Blackburn continued to be active in social issues, serving as president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and co-founding, with Douglas Nicholls, the Aborigines Advancement League and the Federal Council for Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. Pastor Sir Douglas Ralph "Doug" Nicholls, KCVO, OBE, (9 December 1906 - 4 June 1988 was an Australian Aborigine from the Yorta The Aborigines Advancement League (also known as the Aboriginal Advancement League) is the oldest Aboriginal organisation in Australia.
Blackburn died in Coburg, Victoria. Coburg (aka the burg is a mid-northern Suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
References
- ^ Daly, F. (1977) From Curtin to Kerr, Sun Books, Melbourne.
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