The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library

Rosemary Crowley - Her Story

News from the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Library - Rosemary Crowley exhibition November 2010

As the first South Australian female Senator for the ALP, Rosemary Anne Crowley served from 1983 to 2002. She was the Minister for Family Services from March 1993 to March 1996 and was also the Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women from March 1993 to December 1993

Rosemary Crowley, Kim Beazley , Prime Minister Bob Hawke and Senator Dominic Foreman in 1987, photographed with a model of the Kockums 471 class submarine to be created for the Australian Department of Defence (Navy). Kim Beazley, the Minister for Defence, commissioned the construction of the first submarine to be built in South Australia

Rosemary Crowley received this gift during her role as Leader of the Parliamentary Delegation to Argentina from June-July 1992