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- Elizabeth_Couchman abstract "Dame Elizabeth Couchman DBE (19 April 1876 - 18 November 1982), was an Australian who worked in the interests of women, and was a co-founder of the Liberal Party of Australia.She was born Elizabeth May Ramsay Tannock, the daughter of Elizabeth Mary (née Ramsay), and Archibald Tannock. Her father was a confectioner. She was born and grew up in Geelong, and was educated to matriculation level at the Girls' High School. She matriculated in 1895. After a period of teaching at the Methodist Ladies' College and Tintern, another independent girls' school, she moved to Perth, Australia in 1916 to complete a BA at the University of Western Australia, which offered free education. Her major interests were political science, constitutional law and economics.In 1917, aged 41, she married businessman Claude Couchman, but had no children. He died ten years later. On his death she decided to devote the rest of her life to the pursuit of public interests, which included voluntary work and the duties of a Justice of the Peace. She went on to devote her life to working in the public sphere. She was President of the Australian Women's National League, a conservative women's organisation established in 1904 to support the monarchy and empire, to combat socialism, educate women in politics and safeguard the interests of the home, women and children, from 1927 until 1945. During the inter-war years it claimed 40,000 members and was the largest continuing non-labour organisation, but those numbers dwindled to approximately 12,000 by 1944. In 1945 it merged to help form the new Liberal Party of Australia. Elizabeth Couchman insisted on equal representation of women and men at all levels of the Victorian division, and was involved in establishing the branch structure of the party. She worked in the Liberal Party organisation as a member of the state executive and state council and served as Victorian vice-president of the party from 1949-1955.She was the first female to be appointed to the Australian Broadcasting Commission from 1932–1940, and was a member of the Australian delegation to the League of Nations in 1934.Like many politically active women of her generation, she was denied the opportunity to gain a safe seat in the national parliament. She sought pre-selection for the Senate on three occasions, but was unsuccessful. She eventually gained pre-selection to stand in the safe Labor seat of Melbourne in the 1943 election, but lost. Nonetheless, she mentored others such as Margaret Guilfoyle, who came after her and who was elected to the Senate in 1970. Couchman wanted women to be able to participate fully in the political process; to run for office and to do much more than the 'political housework'.She was appointed as Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Years Day Honours of 1961 for her public and patriotic services. Dame Elizabeth Couchman died in Melbourne, aged 106.".
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