In one of his many colourful metaphors, Prime Minister Billy Hughes once described Australia’s first female Federal parliamentarian as “like a nightingale amongst the carrion crows”.
It is now three-quarters of a century since Enid Lyons rose to deliver her maiden speech to a rapt House of Representatives, a milestone celebrated by the Menzies Research Centre last month at Old Parliament House.
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