Joan Child was elected to the Melbourne seat of Henty in 1974, becoming the first female Labor member of the House of Representatives, and only the fourth woman ever elected to the House.
When Child died in 2013, aged 91, then Prime Minister Julia Gillard called her one of Labor's 'true believers', and a powerful voice for the needs and rights of women, especially working women and women doing it tough.
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