Complex sentence: Susan Grace Benny, née Anderson, (1872--5 November 1944) of Seacliff, South Australia was Australia's first woman politician and the first Austalian woman elected to local government, elected to Brighton Council (now City of Holdfast Bay) in 1919.
Split into simpler sentences: Susan Grace Benny, née Anderson, (1872--5 November 1944) of Seacliff, South Australia was Australia's first woman politician and the first Austalian woman elected to local government. She was elected to the Brighton Council (now City of Holdfast Bay) in 1919.