1. Janine Haines represented the Australian Democrats, and served as the party's leader from 1986 to 1990, becoming the first female federal parliamentary leader of an Australian political party.
15 Facts About Janine Haines
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Janine Haines was pivotal in "shaping the Australian Democrats into a powerful political entity that held the balance of power in the Senate".
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Janine Haines married Ian Haines, whom she met at University of Adelaide where they were both studying mathematics, in 1967.
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Janine Haines taught English part-time and commenced an MA thesis on the poet Shaw Neilson but this was interrupted when she suffered a severe whiplash injury in a car accident.
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Janine Haines died in 2004, at age 59, from a degenerative neurological condition, and was honoured with a state funeral in Adelaide.
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Janine Haines became the assistant of Robin Millhouse, an important player in the South Australian conservative party the Liberal and Country League.
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Janine Haines was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the Senate by the Parliament of South Australia, on the nomination of Labor premier Don Dunstan, on 14 December 1977.
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Controversially, Dunstan chose to nominate Janine Haines, who had been third on the Liberal Movement ticket from which Hall had been elected in 1975.
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Janine Haines was not a member of the Liberal Movement at the time of her appointment, with the party dissolving in 1976.
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Janine Haines did not contest the 1977 Australian federal election, and her Senate term expired on 30 June 1978.
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Janine Haines was elected for a six-year term at the 1980 Australian federal election.
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Janine Haines remained Senate leader until resigning to contest the House of Representatives seat of Kingston in the March 1990 election, believing the Democrats needed a "high profile lower house presence".
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Janine Haines was unsuccessful in the face of a negative campaign waged against her by both major parties.
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Janine Haines was succeeded as interim Senate leader for several months by deputy Dr Michael Macklin, pending the customary election of a new leader by party members, at which Janet Powell was successful.
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Janine Haines was invested with membership of the Order of Australia on 11 June 2001 and inducted onto the Victorian Honour Roll of Women in the same year.