Guilfoyle broke glass ceilings quietly

By Don Woolford
Updated November 19 2020 - 7:14pm, first published 7:09pm
Dame Margaret Guilfoyle helped open political doors for Australian women.
Dame Margaret Guilfoyle helped open political doors for Australian women.

Margaret Guilfoyle broke a glass ceiling of Australian politics when she became the first woman member of a federal cabinet with full departmental responsibilities in 1975.

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