The first female Governor-General of Australia was Quentin Bryce. She held the position from 2008 to 2014 and served as the Queen's representative in Australia. Prior to this, Bryce also served as the Governor of Queensland from 2003 to 2008.
In Australia, the first female Governor-General is Quentin Bryce, who was appointed on 5 September 2008.
Quetin Bryce is important to Australia because she is our governor general. Quetin Bryce is the first female governor general in Australia.
No. Australia's first Governor General was Sir Charles FitzRoy.
Quentin Bryce is Australia's first female governor-genera, a 65-year-old Queenslander was sworn in as Australia's 25th - and first female - governor-general in a formal ceremony in the Senate chamber this morning by High Court Chief Justice Robert French.
Jeanne Sauvé was the first female Governor General of Canada, serving from 1984-1990.
The first female Governor General of Canada was the Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé.
New Zealand's first female Governor-general.
In the State of Victoria, Australia, the Queen's representative is the Governor, Professor David de Kretser, A.C.The city of Victoria is the capital of the province of British Columbia in Canada. The Queen's representative in British Columbia is Lieutenant Governor Steven L. Point, OBC.
The Right Honourable Jeanne Sauvé, P.C., C.C., C.M.M., C.D., the 23rd Governor General of Canada, was the first female to serve as Canada's governor general.
The Governor General is the representative of the Australian government to the Monarch of Britain. The Governor General is appointed by the government of Australia. The role of Governor General was inaugurated in Australia in NSW in 1946 but, after each colony was granted its own Governor, fell into disuse until Federation of the colonies/states in 1901. The first act of the newly appointed Governor General, John Hope, was to officially appoint the inaugural Prime Minister, Edmund Barton. On 5 Sep 2008, Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's Governor General, the first woman to serve as Queen Elizabeth's representative in Australia.
The first female governor was Joan Finney, from 1991 to 1995. She was the first female candidate in the US to defeat an incumbent male governor in a state general election.
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