Jean Melzer

Jean Isabel Melzer (7 February 1926 – 18 June 2013) was an Australian Senator representing the Australian Labor Party and the state of Victoria.

She was elected at the 1974 election, becoming the first woman Labor senator from Victoria.^[2] In 1978 she was the first woman elected as the Secretary of the Labor Caucus.^[2] She served two terms,^[3] being defeated at the 1980 election as she was placed third on the Labor ticket.^[4] Her final term ended on 30 June 1981.^[3]

She stood unsuccessfully as the lead Victorian senate candidate for the Nuclear Disarmament Party in the 1984 election. She received 7.1% of the vote.^[5]

Melzer was the president of U3A Network Victoria.^[6][7] She died on 18 June 2013.^[1]

References

1. 1 2 "Hansard". Parliament of Australia. 20 June 2013. Retrieved 23 June 2013. 
2. 1 2 Australian Senate profile; retrieved 22 June 2013
3. 1 2 Rosemary Francis (17 April 2008). "Melzer profile". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 25 January 2010. 
4. ↑ Barbara Hooks (16 October 1979). "Don't Put me First: Senator Melzer". The Age. 
5. ↑ "PM not as Important as Uranium: Melzer". The Age. 14 June 1984. p. 6. 
6. ↑ "Media Release from Minister for Aged Care". 12 March 2004. 
7. ↑ "Victorian Honour Roll of Women" (PDF). Office of Women’s Policy, Department for Victorian Communities. 2006. Retrieved 25 January 2010. 

External links

• Melzer photo

Potential sources

• MS 3683 Records of the Women's Electoral Lobby (Australia) Series 7: Political lobbying records, 1972-89 folder 18-19 held at NLA
• Paper presented at National Labor Women's Conference, Canberra, 29 January-1 February 1982
• Paper presented at 2nd Women and Labour Conference, Melbourne, 17 May 1980 paper called "Is Parliament Relevant to Women and. Their Search for Identity?"

Anti-nuclear movement in Australia
Organisations and groups	The Australia Institute Australian Conservation Foundation Australian Greens Australian Labor Party Campaign Against Nuclear Energy Conservation Council of South Australia Friends of the Earth Australia Greenpeace Australia Pacific Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta Medical Association for Prevention of War Mineral Policy Institute Nuclear Disarmament Party Peace Organisation of Australia The Wilderness Society
People	Dorothy Auchterlonie Green David Bradbury (film maker) Bob Brown Eileen Kampakuta Brown Kevin Buzzacott Helen Caldicott Moss Cass Ian Cohen Michael Denborough Mark Diesendorf Jim Falk Peter Garrett Jim Green (activist) Margaret Holmes Jacqui Katona Sandra Kanck Ian Lowe Scott Ludlam Yvonne Margarula Dee Margetts Jillian Marsh Jean Melzer Kerry Nettle Tilman Ruff Nancy Shelley Jo Vallentine Patrick White Stuart White Eileen Wani Wingfield
Books	Britain, Australia and the Bomb Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy Maralinga: Australia's Nuclear Waste Cover-up Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option
See also	Australian Uranium Association Clean Energy Future Group List of inquiries into uranium mining in Australia Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents Nuclear power in Australia Nuclear weapons tests in Australia Olympic Dam, South Australia Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry Renewable energy commercialization Renewable energy in Australia Say Yes demonstrations Uranium mining in Australia Uranium mining in Kakadu National Park