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Phillips was the first Australian woman to win a seat in a national parliament, and the only one to have been elected to the House of Commons. FROM ADB
Book of Remembrance entry
Not listed on the Roll of Active Service. Working in London during the war she was on the committee of the Women's Training and Employment Committee, and a member of the Consumers' Council of the Ministry of Food. By 1914 she was effectively running the Women's Labour League and was elected to the Labour Party's War Emergency Workers' National Committee to organize the working-class response to the war. She negotiated the terms on which the Women's Labour League was incorporated into the reconstituted Labour Party in 1918.
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1932PHILLIPS M. : Life.Birth 23 Jan 1932
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?Early education at Presbyterian Ladies College, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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1904Tertiary education at University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia 1904
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1906Research Assistant at London --, England 1906
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1909Tertiary education at London School of Economics, London, England 1909
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1909Investigator on Royal Commission for the Poor Law 1909
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1926Member of House of Commons at London --, England 1926
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1932Death in London --, England 23 January 1932
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