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Western Australia granted women the right to vote from 1899, although with racial restrictions. In 1902, the newly established Australian Parliament passed the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 , which gave women equal voting rights to men and the right to stand for federal parliament (although excluding almost all non-white people of both sexes ...
The legislative mistake was quickly repaired in 1865, and it took 19 private members' bills from 1889 until Victorian women gained the vote in 1908, and were able to exercise the vote in 1911. Women in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory were, as federal subjects, eligible to vote at the federal level from their ...
Women won the vote in Western Australia in 1899. Female suffrage was granted in New South Wales in 1902, Tasmania in 1903, Queensland in 1905 and Victoria in 1908. Western Australia and Queensland had racial restrictions and few Indigenous people exercised their right to vote in the other colonies (later states) before 1962 (see below). [13 ...
At the time that the Australian Constitution was drafted, South Australia was the only state which allowed women to vote. [4] The drafters feared that if the Constitution did not allow South Australian women to vote in federal elections, they would vote against federalism. [5]
Women became eligible to vote for the Parliament of South Australia in 1895. This was the first legislation in the world permitting women also to stand for election to political office and, in 1897, Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, unsuccessfully standing for election as a delegate to the ...
Western Australia (Australian state): Women were allowed to vote in Australia's first federal election, but there were racial restrictions. 1902 Australia : The Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 gave all adult British subjects resident in Australia, including women, the right to vote at the federal level.
Western Australian law denied the vote to Indigenous people who didn't meet a property qualification. [5] 1895 All adult women in South Australia, including Indigenous women, won the right to vote. 1901 The Commonwealth Constitution came into effect, giving the newly created Commonwealth Parliament the authority to pass federal voting laws ...
The Act was the first legislation in the world to grant the right for women to be elected to a parliament, [11] and made the colony the fourth place in the world to give women the vote after the Isle of Man (1880), New Zealand (1893) and Colorado (1893). [12] [13] The Act enfranchised female citizens of South Australia, including indigenous women.