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Women in the remainder of Australia only won full rights to vote and to stand for elected office in the decade after Federation, although there were some racial restrictions. [ 48 ] [ 49 ] Indigenous Australian males gained the right to vote when Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia gave voting rights to all male British ...
The history of Australia from 1901 to 1945 begins with the federation of the six colonies to create the Commonwealth of Australia. The young nation joined Britain in the First World War, suffered through the Great Depression in Australia as part of the global Great Depression and again joined Britain in the Second World War against Nazi Germany in 1939.
The Dawn: A Journal for Australian Women was an early feminist journal published monthly in Sydney, Australia between 1888 and 1905. [1] It was first published 15 May 1888 by Louisa Lawson using the pen name of Dora Falconer. [2] The subtitle was later changed to A Journal for the Household. [3]
Following Federation in 1901, the newly formed Parliament of Australia passed the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 allowing most women to both vote and stand at the 1903 Federal election. The states of New South Wales , Tasmania , Queensland and Victoria passed legislation allowing women to participate in government at the state and local levels ...
The Federation of Australia was the process by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia (which also governed what is now the Northern Territory), and Western Australia agreed to unite and form the Commonwealth of Australia, establishing a system of federalism in ...
The following lists events that happened during 1900 in Australia. Incumbents. Monarch – Queen Victoria; Note: ...
A series of referendums on the proposed constitution of Australia were held between 2 June 1898 and 31 July 1900 in the six colonies that were to become the states of the Commonwealth of Australia. [1] The first four referendums were held in New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria in June 1898. [1]
The Women's Christian Temperance Union also established branches in most Australian colonies in the 1880s, promoting votes for women and a range of social causes. [206] Female suffrage, and the right to stand for office, was first won in South Australia in 1895. [207] Women won the vote in Western Australia in 1899, with racial restrictions.