Australia's First Female Governor General - Ms Quentin Bryce
Date of Record: 05/09/2008
As a mother and grandmother, Ms Bryce is a role model and mentor to women at every stage of their lives. She values and encourages women's capacity to form strong and enduring bonds of friendship, intellectual and emotional enrichment, and mutual support in their roles within the family, workplace and community.
On 5 September 2008 Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's twenty-fifth Governor-General. As the first woman to take up the office, she remains a pioneer in contemporary Australian society, and yet one who brings more than forty years of experience in reform, community building and leadership to the role.
Quentin Bryce and her husband, Michael, were married in 1964. They have two daughters and three sons, and nine grandchildren.
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