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in 1979 and served for four years until her election to the Senate. She also served on the ALP state council from 1981 to 1983 and was a campaign director for federal elections. In 1982 she became a full-time organiser for the party in North
Queensland.
513:. She secured cabinet approval to implement the policies outlined in the Hawke government's National Agenda for Women, despite "resistance to the agenda from some Labor ministers who dismissed it as indulgent middle class feminism".
342:. She was the only child of Jess (née Montgomery) and Walter Rodis "Rod" Lyne. Her father was a farm labourer and soldier who served in New Guinea during World War II. He died in 1947, after which she and her mother relocated to
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Minister for Local Government on 18 September 1987. She was a leader of the government's campaign for the "Yes" vote in the
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in 1991. They were subsequently reprimanded by the ALP National
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Reynolds opted not to seek re-election to the ministry after the
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Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women
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for a state parliament seat in 1976. She was elected to the
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