What is Margaret Guilfoyle?
[[Dame]] '''Margaret Georgina Constance Guilfoyle''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AC|DBE}} (''[[née]]'' '''McCartney'''; 15 May 1926 &ndash; 11 November 2020) was an [[Australia]]n politician. She is a member of the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]]. She served as a [[Australian Senate|Senator]] for [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] from 1971 to 1987. She was the first woman minister to administer a government department. She served as a minister for in the [[Malcolm Fraser|Fraser Government]] as [[Minister for Education (Australia)|Minister for Education]] (1975), [[Minister for Human Services|Minister for Social Security]] (1975–1980) and [[Minister for Finance (Australia)|Minister for Finance]] (1980–1983). Guilfoyle was born in [[Belfast]], [[Northern Ireland]]. Her family moved to Australia in 1928, settling in [[Melbourne, Victoria]]. In 1952, she married Stanley Guilfoyle. The couple had three children.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://biography.senate.gov.au/guilfoyle-margaret-georgina-constance/|title=Guilfoyle, Dame Margaret Georgina Constance (1926–)|work=[[Australian Senate|The Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate]]|access-date=25 February 2020}}</ref> Guilfoyle died on 11 November 2020, aged 94.<ref>[https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/390928/margaret-georgina-constance-guilfoyle-ac/ Obituary in ''The Age'' (Melbourne)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127140502/https://tributes.theage.com.au/obituaries/390928/margaret-georgina-constance-guilfoyle-ac/ |date=2020-11-27 }}, 19 November 2020.</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Guilfoyle, Margaret}} [[Category:1926 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Government ministers of Australia]] [[Category:Knights and Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire]] [[Category:Liberal Party of Australia politicians]] [[Category:Members of the Australian Senate]] [[Category:Order of Australia]] [[Category:Politicians from Belfast]] [[Category:Politicians from Melbourne]] {{Bio-stub}}