Australia's two first federal female politicians have had their legacies immortalised in the first female statues to appear in the parliamentary zone in Canberra. The statues of Dame Dorothy Tangney and Dame Enid Lyons will stand on one side of Old Parliament House in the nation's capital, not far from the Women's Suffrage Commemorative Fountain in the adjacent rose gardens. Dame Enid, hailing from Tasmania, was the first elected woman to the House of Representatives and the first woman to serve