Marjorie Madeline Henzell (born 21 September 1948) is an Australian politician. She was an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1993 to 1996, representing the electorate of Capricornia. Henzell graduated from the University of Melbourne with a Bachelor of Arts and Diploma of Social Studies before becoming a social worker. At the time of her election to parliament, she managed a counselling service supporting the employees of two coal mines at Middlemount and Tieri outside Rockhampton, along with their associated communities. She was elected to the House of Representatives at the 1993 federal election, defeating disgraced ex-Labor MP Keith Wright, who was recontesting as an independent despite facing criminal child sex charges. Henzell became the first woman MP to hold the seat in its history. She later described her ability to be elected as a woman in Capricornia at that time as a "quirk of history" and that she was "only here" because of Wright's conduct. Henzell was aligned with the party's Labor Left faction. She was appointed deputy chairman of the Labor caucus in 1993. As a new MP, Henzell described Question Time as "a bit of a boys' locker room" and described her own approach to parliament as a woman as "I won't sit around being patted on the head. We didn't get here to be sweet and malleable, but we can play hard ball without personal abuse." She publicly criticised senior colleague John Dawkins for referring to opposition MP Kathy Sullivan as "sweetheart" in parliament in 1993. In 1994, she questioned her own party's Prime Minister, Paul Keating, about his decision to personally take over the women's affairs portfolio following the resignation of Ros Kelly, asking him if he did not believe anyone in the caucus was sufficiently able; an angry Keating claimed Henzell was sexist, and Henzell expressed her annoyance at not being taken seriously over the issue. In 1994, as chairwoman of a federal parliamentary inquiry into the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Black Deaths in Custody, Henzell attacked state governments for not using or inappropriately using $50 million in federal implementation funding, stating (in relation to New South Wales) that "two years down the track no service has been put into place for the people they were designed to assist", criticising the poor state of services for Aboriginal people, and stating "the only conclusion you