History
The Commonwealth Public Service was established at Federation and administered according to the Commonwealth Public Service Act 1902.
One of the Act's sections stated that every female officer was "deemed to have retired from the Commonwealth service upon her marriage". In 1966 Australia became the last democratic country to lift the ban on married women in the public service.
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