Yvonne Chapman
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Yvonne Ann Chapman (born 1940) Queensland Member of Parliament (1983 - 1989) where she was for a time Minister for Family Services and Mayor of the Shire of Pine Rivers (1994 - present).
Yvonne Chapman was the first woman to hold a Cabinet position in the Queensland Parliament, and is the first Mayor of Pine Rivers Shire (previous leaders of the Council were known as the Shire Chairman).
[edit] Queensland Parliament
- 1983 - 1989 Pine Rivers
[edit] Becoming the Lady Mayor
Chapman contested the 1994 Mayorial election against sitting Shire Chairman Rob Akers and 4 others. In addition to being the first time the Shire elected a Mayor, it was also the first time a preferential ballot was used. Akers received the majority of the first preferences but Chapman was victorius after the distribution of preferences.
This was the second time Chapman had defeated Rob Akers at a significant election, having taken the Queensland Parliamentary seat of Pine Rivers from him in 1983.
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