Jocelyn Margaret Newman

Honourable

Born
8 July 1937
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Died
1 April 2018
Occupation
Barrister, Farmer, Hotelier, Lawyer, Parliamentarian and Solicitor
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A member of the Liberal Party of Australia, Jocelyn Newman served as a Senator for Tasmania in the Senate of the ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Parliament from 1986 until 2002, when she resigned. She held the Ministerial portfolios in the Howard Government of Social Security from 1996-98; Family and Community Services from 1998-2001. She held the portfolio of Minister Assisting the Prime Minister on the Status of Women for two separate periods, from 1996-97 and from 1998-2001.

Sources used to compile this entry: Women in politics: voices from the Commonwealth, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, 1999; [Biographical cuttings on Jocelyn Margaret Newman, politician], ; National Library of Australia; Fitzherbert, Margaret, So Many Firsts: Liberal Women from Enid Lyons to the Turnbull Era, The Federation Press, Leichhardt, NSW, 2009, 286 pp; Jocelyn Newman interviewed by Norman Abjorensen [sound recording], 1996, ; National Library of Australia; Papers of Jocelyn and Kevin Newman, 1975 - 2001, ; National Library of Australia; Papers of Jocelyn Newman, 1975-2000 [manuscript], 1975 - 2000, ; National Library of Australia.

Prepared by Rosemary Francis