Dorothy Jelicich
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Dorothy Jelicich QSO |
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| Member of the New Zealand Parliament for Hamilton West |
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In office 25 November 1972 – 30 October 1975 |
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| Preceded by | Leslie Munro |
| Succeeded by | Mike Minogue |
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Dorothy Catherine MacDonald 19 January 1928 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Died | 10 April 2015 (aged 87) Otahuhu, New Zealand |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Paul Stephen Jelicich (m. 1949; d. 2014) |
Dorothy Catherine Jelicich QSO (née MacDonald, 19 January 1928 – 10 April 2015) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party. She served one term in the House of Representatives representing the Hamilton West electorate, and was afterwards a city councillor in Hamilton and then Manukau.
Jelicich was born in Sydney on 19 January 1928. Her father was a semi-skilled labourer. She was educated at Epsom Girls' Grammar School and the Elam School of Fine Arts. In 1949 she married Paul Jelicich, a bricklayer, and, with family support, she opened a restaurant in the Auckland suburb of Papatoetoe. Purchasing a small dairy farm at Bombay in 1964, the couple took up farming, but in 1970 she became a shoe store manager and then a trade union organiser.
She stood unsuccessfully for Hauraki in 1969. In 1972 she won the seat of Hamilton West for Labour by defeating the incumbent, Leslie Munro of the National Party. She became the first woman in New Zealand parliamentary history to open the Address-in-Reply debate. In 1975 she lost her seat to Mike Minogue. She contested the Hamilton West electorate once more in the 1978 election.
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