Janine Haines
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Janine Winton Haines, AM （née Carter, 8 May 1945 – 20 November 2004） was an Australian politician who was a Senator for South Australia from 1977 to 1978 and again from 1981 to 1990.
She represented the Australian Democrats, and served as the party's leader from 1986 to 1990, becoming the first female federal parliamentary leader of an Australian political party.
She was pivotal in "shaping the Australian Democrats into a powerful political entity that held the balance of power in the Senate".
Haines was born in Tanunda, South Australia, to a schoolteacher mother and policeman father, and travelled around South Australia with her parents and younger brother, due to her father's job.
They eventually settled in Adelaide and she attended Brighton High School.
She married Ian Haines, whom she met at University of Adelaide where they were both studying mathematics, in 1967.
They had two daughters, Melanie and Bronwyn.
She taught English part-time and commenced an MA thesis on the poet Shaw Neilson but this was interrupted when she suffered a severe whiplash injury in a car accident.
She died in 2004, at age 59, from a degenerative neurological condition, and was honoured with a state funeral in Adelaide.
Haines became the assistant of Robin Millhouse, an important player in the South Australian conservative party the Liberal and Country League.
Millhouse founded the Liberal Movement and the short-lived New LM which merged into the Australian Democrats in 1977.
She was appointed to fill a casual vacancy in the Senate by the Parlia...