Case 15 First Woman in QLD Parliament Irene Longman

This worksheet and PowerPoint Presentation are to supplement the podcast History Detective. Case 15: First Woman in QLD Parliament: Irene Longman explores what it was like to be the only woman in parliament in 1929. One of the focus skills for the lesson is interpreting implicit meaning of sources, however students will also build vocabulary, analyse sources, engage with the historical concepts of context, perspective, motive, explicit evidence, audience and context. 

The accompanying History Detective podcast transcript can be found here and is hyperlinked in the resources. The History Detective podcast can be accessed wherever you get your podcasts.

The lyric video for the accompanying song can be found on YouTube.