Pamela Frances O'Neil (born 20 September 1945) is a former Australian politician. She was the

Labor Labour or labor may refer to: * Childbirth, the delivery of a baby * Labour (human activity), or work ** Manual labour, physical work ** Wage labour, a socioeconomic relationship between a worker and an employer ** Organized labour and the labour ...

member for Fannie Bay in the

Northern Territory Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly of the Northern Territory is the unicameral legislature of the Northern Territory of Australia. The Legislative Assembly has 25 members, each elected in single-member electorates for four-year terms. The voting method fo ...

from 1977 to 1983. In 1984, she was appointed Australia's first

Sex Discrimination Commissioner The Sex Discrimination Commissioner is an Australian federal government position established to oversee the operation of the ''Sex Discrimination Act 1984''. The position was created alongside the Act as one of the specialist commissioners of the ...

by the Hawke Government, holding the position until 1988 when she was succeeded by

Quentin Bryce Dame Quentin Alice Louise Bryce, (née Strachan; born 23 December 1942) is an Australian academic who served as the 25th governor-general of Australia from 2008 to 2014. She is the first woman to have held the position, and was previously the ...

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