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The first female head of government in Australia, was Rosemary Follett in 1989, who was the 1st Chief Minister of the Australian Capital Territory. Carmen Lawrence became the first female premier of a state in 1990, by serving as the 25th Premier of Western Australia.
Anna Bligh, Annastacia Palaszczuk and Gladys Berejiklian are the only women who have received a popular mandate as premier of an Australian state (21 March 2009, 31 January 2015 and 23 March 2019). Palaszczuk is also the only woman to have led a party from Opposition to Government.
Lara Giddings was the first female Premier of the state of Tasmania between January 2011 and March 2014. In Queensland, in 2015, Annastacia Palaszczuk became the first woman to be elected premier from opposition and was the first female premier to be elected for a second term after winning the 2017 Queensland state election. Despite being the ...
Bligh succeeded Beattie as premier in 2007 – Queensland's first female premier and Australia's third. She led Labor to victory at the 2009 state election, but at the 2012 election suffered a landslide defeat and announced her retirement from politics. From 2010 to 2011, Bligh was National President of the Australian Labor Party.
She went on to lead Labor to increased majorities at the 2017 and 2020 elections, making her the first Australian female premier to win three terms. [6] On 10 December 2023, Palaszczuk announced her resignation as Premier. [7] She resigned as Premier on 15 December, with then-Deputy Premier Steven Miles sworn in to succeed her on the same day.
Premier of South Australia. List of premiers of South Australia by time in office; Premier of Tasmania. List of premiers of Tasmania by time in office; Premier of Victoria. List of premiers of Victoria by time in office; Premier of Western Australia. List of premiers of Western Australia by time in office; Chief Minister of the Northern Territory
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
Carmen Mary Lawrence AO (born 2 March 1948) is an Australian academic and former politician who was the premier of Western Australia from 1990 to 1993, the first woman to become the premier of an Australian state. To date she is the only female premier of Western Australia.