Among the chosen : the life story of Pat Giles / Lekkie Hopkins and Lynn Roarty, with a forward by Joan Kirner and Cheryl Davenport.

By: Hopkins, Lekkie [author.]Contributor(s): Roarty, Lynn [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Fremantle, Western Australia : Fremantle Press, 2010Description: 288 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781921696022; 1921696028Other title: Life story of Pat Giles [Portion of title]Subject(s): Giles, Patricia Jessie, 1928- | Giles, Patricia Jessie, 1928- | Giles, Patricia, 1928- | Since 1965 | Women legislators -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography | Politicians -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography | Political activists -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography | Women political activists -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Biography | Labor unions -- Australia -- Western Australia -- Officials and employees -- Biography | Women's rights -- Australia -- Western Australia | Women's rights -- Western Australia | Women political activists -- Western Australia -- Biography | Labor unions -- Western Australia -- Officials and employees -- Biography | Women legislators -- Western Australia -- Biograph | Women legislators -- Western Australia -- Biography | Politicians -- Western Australia -- Biography | Political activists -- Western Australia -- Biography | Labor unions -- Officials and employees | Political activists | Politicians | Politics and government | Women legislators | Women political activists | Women's rights | Western Australia -- Politics and government -- 1965- | Western Australia | Giles, Patricia | Former Members | Trade union officials | Western Australia | Women | Human rights | Political conditions | Biography | Biography & autobiography (Western Australia,Australia) | State government (Western Australia,Australia) | Civil & human rights (Western Australia,Australia)Genre/Form: Biography. | Biographies. DDC classification: 328.941092 LOC classification: HQ1236.5.A8 | .H67 2010Summary: Pat Giles was dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged. As an ALP Senator in the Hawke and Keating governments, she entered Parliament, not as a raw recruit, but as an experienced trade unionist, policy maker, feminist campaigner and grassroots activist. This is the story of a woman whose determination never faltered.
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Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pat Giles was dedicated to improving the lives of the disadvantaged. As an ALP Senator in the Hawke and Keating governments, she entered Parliament, not as a raw recruit, but as an experienced trade unionist, policy maker, feminist campaigner and grassroots activist. This is the story of a woman whose determination never faltered.

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