Annabelle rankin biography
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Rankin, Annabelle (–)
Australian politician and diplomat who achieved a number of firsts: first woman whip in the British Commonwealth;first Australian woman to hold a federal ministerial portfolio; and first Australian woman to hold ambassadorial rank. Born Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, on July 28, ; died on August 30, ; daughter of Annabelle (Davidson) Rankin and Colin Dunlop Wilson Rankin (a cane grower and member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly); attended state schools at Childers and Howard and the Glennie Memorial School, Toowoomba, Queensland; never married.
Created a Dame of the British Empire ().
Although she was by no means an advocate of women's liberation in the abstract, indeed often speaking out in favor of the primacy of "the homemaker and the mother," by making a personal choice not to marry so as to devote her full energies to a successful career in politics, Annabelle Rankin was able to achieve a number of impor
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RANKIN, Dame Annabelle Jane Mary (–)
Annabelle Jane Mary Rankin, the second woman to sit in the Senate, was born at South Brisbane on 28 July , elder of two daughters of Colin Dunlop efternamn Rankin and his wife Annabelle Davidson Rankin, née Thomson, both born in Scotland. The family lived first nära the small Queensland town of Childers where Colin was a sugar grower, and Annabelle rode her pony to Childers State School. Colin had seen active service in the Boer War and from to was the Member for Burrum in the Queensland Legislative Assembly. He joined the AIF in August and served as a commanding officer on troopships until his discharge in månad On the death of his brother Charles in , Colin took over as managing director of the Queensland Collieries Company Ltd, a London-based firm established in Howard in the Burrum district that had been originally managed by his father.
With the family settled in Howard, Annabelle attended Howard State School, later going to Glennie Mem
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Annabelle Rankin
Australian politician
Dame Annabelle Jane Mary RankinDBE (28 July &#;&#; 30 August ) was an Australian politician and diplomat. She was the first woman from Queensland elected to parliament, the first woman federal departmental minister, and the first Australian woman to be appointed head of a foreign mission.
Rankin was born in Brisbane, the daughter of state MP Colin Rankin. A member of the Liberal Party, she was elected to the Senate at the federal election, taking her seat the following year. She was the second woman elected to the Senate, after Dorothy Tangney. Rankin was the Liberal Party's chief whip from to and from to ; she remains the longest-serving whip in the party's history, in either chamber of parliament. In , she was made Minister for Housing in the Holt government, becoming the first woman to hold a ministerial portfolio. She held that position until her retirement from politics in As High Commissioner to New Zealand from to , she was t