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Senator Janine Haines was the first woman to lead a parliamentary party when she became the leader of the Australian Democrats in 1986. Senator Haines resigned from the Senate on 1 March 1990 to contest, unsuccessfully, the 1990 federal election for the House of Representatives seat of Kingston, South Australia.
