Enid Muriel Lyons Quotes
We cannot hope, merely by economic measures, to increase the birthrate. Certain things are necessary to be done in order to ease the burden on families, but they must be looked upon only as measures of justice to those who are prepared to face their responsibilities. We need maternity and nursing services; we need some kind of domestic help service; we need better houses. But those things cannot in themselves revive the falling birthrate We must look to the basic wage, which at present provides for the needs of three children for every man who receives it;
She was also Australia’s First Woman Cabinet Minister.
Enid Muriel Lyons, 1897-1981, First Australian Female Member of Parliament (Liberal), Maiden Speech in Parliament, September 29, 2943
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Dame Enid Muriel Lyons AD, GBE was an Australian politician who was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives and the first woman to serve in federal cabinet. Prior to her own political career, she was best known as the wife of Joseph Lyons, who was Prime Minister of Australia (1932–1939) and Premier of Tasmania (1923–1928).