Feminism in Australia woman Premier was Carmen Lawrence, becoming Premier of Western Australia in 1990. The short-lived Australian Women's Party sought to ensure equal representation of men and women at all levels of government. Quentin Bryce was the first woman to hold the position of Governor-General of Australia between September 2008 and March 2014. Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard gained international attention and praise in 2012 for an off-the-cuff speech in the Australian federal parliament directed at then Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott. The speech, known as The Misogyny Speech has been uploaded to YouTube multiple times, with several thousand views each. The speech
Alison Quentin-Baxter Alison Quentin-Baxter Dame Alison Burns Quentin-Baxter (née Souter, born 1929) is a retired New Zealand constitutional lawyer. She advised a number of small island states on the drafting of their constitutional documents. Quentin-Baxter was born and grew up in Auckland. Both her sets of grandparents were farmers and she spent many holidays on their farms in the Waikato and Kaipara. She attended Nga Tawa Diocesan School for her last years of secondary schooling, and studied law at the University of Auckland where she became chair of the students' law society in her final year, the first woman to hold the