WROTE XMAS POEM TO SEN. TANGNEY
…To wish Senator Dorothy Tangney a Happy Xmas, a Greek woman wrote a poem in her honor,”You impressed me as the first Australian intellectual female I met,” she wrote. “Others I met before have been the housewifely type, the business woman and the man-hunter.” … Article published in the Sunday Times on Sun 24 Dec 1944, page 12, titled: WROTE XMAS POEM TO SEN. TANGNEY. Photo: Work by Vihls of Dame Dorothy Margaret Tangney DBE first female member of the Australian Senate. The mural is etched into the side of Norfolk Hotel on Norfolk Street in Fremantle.