can draw is the fact that there is a continuing abrogation of people's rights...the fact that we are tolerating this sort of racism diminishes us as a country." She also lambasted the Victorian government for failing to implement key recommendations of the Royal Commission and failing to submit reports on its implementation progress. In October 1994, in relation to a contentious debate on a sexual privacy bill, Henzell claimed in parliament that "we are all born bisexual", which made front-page news in the Rockhampton newspaper The Morning Bulletin and led to her receiving many angry letters from constituents; she subsequently clarified that her comment "was not referring to people's sexual orientation; it referred to the fact that we all have male and female traits and hormones and that human sexuality is a widely misunderstood subject". In September 1995, she was one of several Labor MPs to speak in parliament against a bill to sell off the Australian National Line, even though she later voted for it in line with caucus solidarity rules. Throughout all or most of her term, she was a member of the Joint Select Committee on Certain Family Law Issues and the House of Representatives Standing Committees on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and Long Term Strategies. She was defeated by National Party candidate Paul Marek at the 1996 federal election. She later relocated to Armidale in New South Wales and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Armidale Dumaresq Council in 2004. She remained involved with the Labor Party and served as secretary of the party's Armidale State Electoral Council. References 1948 births Living people Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of Australia Members of the Australian House of Representatives for Capricornia Women members of the Australian House of Representatives 20th-century Australian politicians 20th-century Australian women politicians