Tower B - Levels 8, 9 On 21 August 1943, Dame Enid Lyons was elected to the House of Representatives. You have corrected this article This article has been corrected by You and other Voluntroves This article has been corrected by Voluntroves $ Close Captcha. 00:00:32:04 MARGOT FOSTER: I believe, very sincerely, that any woman entering the public arena must be prepared to work as men work. All locations can be contacted through the DSS national number, 1300 653 227 (Call rates from landline and mobile providers may vary. Joe Lyons, Australia’s 10th Prime Minister, died in office in 1939. Lyons was a very successful electoral campaigner, with wife Enid, a major factor in his winning popularity and appeal. If you are deaf or have a hearing or speech impairment, you can use the National Relay Service to contact any of DSS's listed phone numbers. Situated on the lake side of the Questacon Building is a public park with BBQ facilities under a large pergola. 66. It’s one of the things I really enjoy about travelling – learning about places, their people and their history, by visiting gardens! Dame Enid terraced the rocky slope with low stonewalls to make raised flowerbeds around the house. Enid’s grandsons Chris and Tony on the lawn in front of Home Hill in the 1950s. History books and even films reveal much about the past, but stepping into it is a far more interesting and more lasting way to learn. His cautious and orthodox financial management transformed him from a dissident Labor minister to a conservative Prime Minister. All my active public work… had been aimed at rousing women to a sense of their own powers and responsibilities.’ - Dame Enid Lyons. First proclaimed / election: 2017/1984 : Area: 35721 sq. Please check with your current service provider), Newcastle The scarlet bougainvillea continues to thrive at Home Hill. It is planted beside memorials to Joe Lyons. Ph: 1300 653 227 (Call rates from landline and mobile providers may vary. This year the flowers in the borders have been nearly all blue, except for a few big splashes of rich crimson and pink Sweet William and some tall spikes of Russell lupins in apricot, rose and pink. It has a lovely green carpet of grass and soon will have walls of green cypress. As a mother of 12 children (one of whom died in infancy), widowed young and facing huge financial worries and health issues, Home Hill and its garden was a sanctuary for Dame Enid. See All. NOC Enid – 580.242.6300 P.O. ‘I’ve got my Irish up and I’m going to fight like mad.’ - Dorothy Tangney. Like an army with banners, they have taken possession of the borders, standing tall and erect against the house wall and flanking the high screen that shuts the garden off from the orchard.”. Summary: Sandra Lyons was born on 01/02/1945 and is 76 years old. Level 4 “For weeks now in my garden, hollyhocks have been on the march. Especially for the women in the building. Enid Lyons is also listed along with people born on July 9, 1897. Larkspurs early took up the theme, with anchusa and Canterbury bells, cornflowers, campanula and love-in-the-mist, with drifts of mauve-blue catmint as a kind of obligate. Photo: Collection Home Hill, National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney ‘I believed with all my heart in the right of women to a place in government. While the bones of the garden remain, Dame Enid’s landscaping work has not stood the test of time and most of her cottage garden planting has long gone. Enid Lyons with media leaders, 1960 (AOT, PH30/1/3573) Enid Muriel Lyons (née Burnell, 1897–1981), politician, was born on Tasmania's north-west coast.While an eighteen-year-old trainee teacher, she married Joseph Lyons, 35-year-old state Minister for Education, and converted to Catholicism. Jointly named in honour of Joseph Aloysius Lyons CH, 1879-1939, Prime Minister of Australia (1932-39) and a Member of the House of Representatives (1929-39), and Dame Enid Muriel Lyons, DGBE(C) AD, 1897-1981, first woman member of the House of Representatives (1943-51). As well as planting and building a garden, she also wallpapered, upholstered, painted and made changes to the layout of the house. Sydney NSW 2001. PTSA Membership Form; Registration Guide; School Pride; Senior Info; Student Handbook; Student Store; OK School Report Cards; Extra-Curricular Extra-Curricular; Academic Club; Art. From Wright, Canberra 61 min. Although now separated from the town of Devonport by the busy Bass Highway, the property retains some of its original 3.6-hectare (nine-acre) grounds that once included an orchard, which the practical Joe and Enid Lyons saw as a potential income if Joe’s political career failed. Townsville QLD 4810, Level 13 # Posted by Dianne Porter 17 hours ago. This place deserves more visitors and wider appreciation. For Dame Enid her garden’s crowning feature was the pond she dug and surrounded with paving and colourful plantings. 4. 21-29 William Street Port Augusta SA 5700, Level 2 Named after Dame Enid Lyons (1897-1981), Australia's first female federal politician, Lyons House is the College’s Centre for the Spoken Word. Photo: Collection Home Hill, National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1931 - 1954), Sat 9 Aug 1952, Page 2 - DAME ENID LYONS. NOC Stillwater – 580.628.6900 P.O. Feb 23, 2014 - dame enid lyons - Google Search Dame Enid Lyons: www.abc.net.au - 200 × 120 - Search by image Dame Enid Lyons Photo: Jennifer Stackhouse. GPO Box 9820. Please check with your current service provider). Enid Lyons. There are memorials here for Joe Lyons and also for one of her children, Brendan and her grandson Joseph. Photo: Jennifer Stackhouse. Click on the Bus route to see step by step directions with maps, line arrival times and updated time schedules. Her biography by Anne Henderson entitled Enid Lyons: Leading Lady to a Nation was published in 2008. In the past, Sandra has also been known as D Sandra Lyons, Sandra E Lyons, Sandra L Lyons, Sanra E Lyons and Sandra E Lyone. Dorothy Tangney and Enid Lyons walked through the doors of Parliament House in 1943 as its first federal female politicians. GPO Box 9820. 99 Bathurst Street “When she returns from Canberra it is she who mows the wide lawns, trims their edges, for she knows as only a truly practical Australian woman can, that the garden is not made by saying ‘Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade’.” The quote is from Rudyard Kipling. While in this day and age having women in parliament is nothing unusual, when she and Dorothy Tangney entered the white building down the hill, it caused quite a stir. FIRST & SECOND SATURDAY each Month FIRST SATURDAY 10AM TO 2PM AT UP-OPPING 2nd Hand Clothing Store Ainslie Church of Christ 82 Art Students Hard at Work; Big Blue … Anne Henderson has raised the possibility that her real father may have been Aloysius Joyce, son of a wealthy landowner in the Burnie district. A wharf was created on the west bank, close to the railway and warehouses. Photo: Collection Home Hill, National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). At one of edge of this garden is a towering sequoia (Sequoia sempervirens) grown from seed gathered during the Lyons’ visit to the US in 1937 after they attended the coronation of George VI in England. Darwin NT 0801. She decorated the house herself and filled it with flowers picked from her garden. Photo: Collection Home Hill, National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). 71 Athllon Drive. She even grew a macadamia. Level 3 280 Elizabeth Street There are no regional office locations in the Northern Territory. Box 1869 615 N. Monroe, Stillwater, OK 74078 Today 13/2/21 is JAMMALONG DAY in Canberra - from 12md till we have had enough. New South Wales. Lady Gowrie wrote in South Australia’s newspaper The Mail in 1943 about her friendship with Dame Enid. There is a public toilet with disabled access and ample parking for cars nearby. After the death of Joseph, Dame Enid used politics as a way to combat her depression. Level 7, Jacana House. They were told "later this week we will be converting the majority of the Enid Lyons building into a Services Australia call and processing centre". As the world marks International Women’s Day on Monday, 8 March, the issue of female representation in parliament remains as important as ever. She was one of the most able and committed prime ministerial spouses in Australian political history. © 2021 GardenDrum All Rights Reserved | ADMIN. The marriage of Enid and Joseph Lyons … Thoroughly enjoyed this thanks Jennifer. She went to Canberra as a Member of the House of Representatives in 1943 after Joe’s untimely death in office in 1939. Townsville For International Callers: + 61 2 6146 0001. We are lucky that her granddaughter Mary has kept a transcript of this talk as the original recording and transcript have been lost or misplaced in her archives. Enid Lyons was constantly involved in official duties as prime ministerial spouse, in servicing the Wilmot electorate and in party campaigning. The former Tuggeranong Office Park is being converted into a retirement and aged village. What did Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney do while in Canberra you ask? Sat Feb 13 2021 at 12:00 pm, Enid Lyons St, Parkes ACT 2600, Australia, Canberra, Australia. I was lucky to visit it c/o AGHS last June and am glad AGHS have given it a grant and gather Devonport Council are coming on side too, so this, with great volunteer guides and interest, augurs well for its future. Surry Hills, Sydney NSW 2010. Jennifer, another fantastic article. Female toilets had to be designated. A cluster of Pink Pearl rhododendrons in bloom, Joe Lyons’ favourite flower. Dame Enid delighted in dry stonewalls, self-seeding cottage plants such as hollyhocks, and flowering shrubs such as camellias and rhododendrons. A view of Home Hill when it was built in 1916 for the newly wed Joe and Enid Lyons. NOC Enid – 580.242.6300 P.O. Photo: Jennifer Stackhouse, Detail of a stone retaining wall built by Dame Enid. This building is now called ‘Old Parliament House’ and houses the Australian Museum of Democracy. Enid Lyons Building 71 Athllon Drive Greenway ACT 2900. 11 Waymouth Street The Department of Social Services’ (DSS) national office building in Canberra was today named after Dame Enid Lyons, former Liberal politician, the first woman elected to the House … Photo: Collection Home Hill, National Trust of Australia (Tasmania). In 1890 the public voted to join the two villages together to become the town of Devonport. Dame Enid Muriel Lyons (1897-1981), politician, was, according to her birth certificate, born on 9 July 1897 at Duck River (Smithton), Tasmania, second of four children of William Burnell, sawyer, and his wife Eliza, née Taggett.