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Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and nation in Australian Women’s Writing 1880s–1930s (St Leonard, Australia: Allen and Unwin, 1995). Smith, Michelle J., Clare Bradford, et al. From Colonial to Modern: Transnational Girlhood in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand Literature, 1840–1940 (2018) excerpt
The transportation system to Australia was based on a permanent removal of the convicts from Britain because even after their sentence was served, there were no British laws in place to assist their return to the British Empire. [2] Convict women varied from small children to old women, but the majority were in their twenties or thirties.
An extension and continuation of the Old Colonial Georgian style into the Victorian era. [17] Georgian style houses built before c.1840 are characterised as Old Colonial Georgian, while buildings between c.1840 and c.1890 are characterised as Victorian Georgian. Both styles are essentially the same, being characterised by symmetrical facades ...
Dolly Gurinyi Batcho (c. 1905 - 1973) was a Larrakia woman who served on Aboriginal Women's Hygiene Squad, 69th, as a part of the Australian Women's Army Service. She was also a signatory of the 1972 Larrakia Petition; Beetaloo Jangari Bill (c1910 - 1983) a Gurindji and Warumungu Elder from Elliott, Northern Territory.
Australian cities suffered from lax or nonexistent heritage preservation and protection, resulting in widespread loss of prominent early architectural styles–for example, Melbourne's Queen Anne style APA Building, built in 1889, was one of the world's tallest buildings in the 1890s but was demolished in the contemporary-conscious early 1980s. [3]
Propertied women in the colony of South Australia were granted the vote in local elections (but not parliamentary elections) in 1861. Henrietta Dugdale formed the first Australian women's suffrage society in Melbourne, Victoria in 1884. [45] Societies to promote women's suffrage were also formed in South Australia in 1888 and New South Wales in ...
Pages in category "History of women in Australia" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Maria Elizabeth Kirk (1855–1928) Temperance in UK and suffrage in Australia. Mary Colton (1822–1898) – president of the Women's Suffrage League from 1892 to 1895; Mary Hynes Swanton (1861–1940) Australian women's rights and trade unionist; Mary Lee (1821–1909) – suffragist and social reformer in South Australia