Diana Laidlaw

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Diana Vivienne Laidlaw (born 2 September 1951) is a former South Australian Liberal politician. She was an elected member of the Legislative Council (1982–2003) and held several ministerial posts. ^[1]

Biography

Her early political career was as an assistant to State and Federal politicians before being elected to the Legislative Council in 1982. She entered cabinet in 1993 when the Brown government (1993-1996) came to power in the 1993 election, where she remained under the subsequent Olsen (1996-2001) and Kerin (2001-2002) governments, following which the Liberals lost power.

Ministerial posts

Minister for Transport (1995–1997)
Minister for Transport and Urban Planning (1997–2002)
Minister for the Arts (1993–2002)
Minister for the Status of Women (1993–2002)

Anecdotes

In 2001, while Minister for the status of Women, she saw her government's prostitution reform bill defeated in the Legislative Council. She is said to have been moved to tears, and called her colleagues "gutless". ^[2]

References

Sources

The Australian Women's Register: Laidlaw, Diana Vivienne 1951 -

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Name	Laidlaw, Diana
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Date of birth	2 September 1951
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