Margaret Reynolds served as an Australian Labor Party

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 Senator for Queensland from 1983 to 1999.

Reynolds had two ministerial appointments during her time in the Senate

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, serving as Minister for Local Government

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 from September 1987 to April 1990 and as Minister assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women

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 from January 1988 to April 1990.

She retired from federal politics in 1999, and went on to lecture in politics and international relations at the University of Queensland

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Reynolds is married to Henry Reynolds

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, with whom she has a son (John) and two daughters (Anna and Rebecca).