Joyce Steele

Joyce Steele

Joyce Wilfred Steele (1910—?) was an Australian politician and one of the first two women elected to the Parliament of South Australia, the other being Jessie Cooper. Steele was elected to the House of Assembly and Cooper was elected to the Legislative Council at the same election.

Prior to her election, Joyce Steele was a homemaker, an ABC broadcaster and active in community organisations, including the Queen Adelaide Club (the women's equivalent of the restricted Adelaide Club). She was pre-selected for the Liberal and Country League's (LCL) safest metropolitan seat, Burnside, in 1959 and was comfortably elected. She was not a feminist, and was affiliated with the conservative wing of the LCL.

Steele was also the first South Australian woman to achieve Cabinet rank in the South Australian Parliament as Minister of Education in the Hall Government from 1968 to 1969. As South Australian schools were increasingly overcrowded due to the children of the baby boomers passing through, it was a tough portfolio, although moderate increases in education spending were allocated. She took the Social Welfare ministry for the remainder of the Hall government's term.

After the government had passed electoral reform legislation in 1968, Steele was moved to the LCL's safest new seat, Davenport, which covered the south-east of the City of Burnside. She received 68% of the primary vote in the 1970 election. On June 9, 1973, Young Liberals State President and Liberal Movement member Dean Brown announced his intention to stand for Davenport pre-selection. Steele, in response, announced her retirement, but not without declaring that " [Dean] certainly will not have my support. I think my attitude to the Liberal Movement is well known".

References

*cite book|last=Hall |first=Steele |year=1973 |title=A Liberal Awakening: The LM Story |publisher=Investigator Press |id=ISBN 0-85864-017-1
*cite book|last=Jaensch |first=Dean |year=1986 |title=The Flinders History of South Australia: Political History |publisher=Wakefield Press |id=ISBN 0-9492-6852-5
*cite book|last=Cockburn |first=Stewart |year=1991 |title=Playford: Benevolent Despot |publisher=Axiom Publishing |id=ISBN 0-9594-1644-7


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