We’ve heard about the glass ceiling – but for Australia’s first female MPs, there was also the porcelain barrier. When Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney entered Parliament in 1943, they were confronted with a basic problem: there was no women’s toilet for MPs. The People’s House had made no provisions for half the people. Canberra cartoonist Eleri Harris has told their story in A Loo of One’s Own, which won this year’s Children’s Book Council of Au…
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