[1] She was the longest-serving female State Parliamentarian in Western Australia, serving in parliament from 15 February 1936 to 7 April 1956, until her record was broken in September 2011 by Liz Constable.

Her husband, an honorary captain in the Army Medical Corps Reserve, joined the Australian Imperial Force, and served in England before requesting his appointment be terminated.

[3] Florence was the first woman to get a full Cabinet rank in Australian parliament, and was thoroughly involved in conservative women's organisations.

[6] In 1929, Cardell-Oliver's husband Arthur died, and she decided to move to Western Australia and to become the vice-president of the State branch of the Nationalist Party.

That year she also published her own book, Empire Unity or Red Asiatic Domination?, which outlined the economic measures that she thought would stop communism at the time.

Influenced by her experiences with undernourished children in London, she sponsored the Free Milk and Nutritional Council, and, as minister, introduced a free-milk scheme for Western Australian schoolchildren.