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South Australian women won the parliamentary vote in 1894 and Spence stood for office in 1897. Edith Cowan (1861–1932) was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1921 and was the first woman elected to any Australian Parliament. Women's suffrage in Australia was one of the early achievements of Australian democracy.
Early Australian female aviators were generally active since 1927 when it became possible for an Australian woman to hold a pilot's licence and fly within Australia. [1] Women had participated in gliding, or taken a licence overseas, but they had not been permitted to fly a plane under licence within Australia.
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
Sanu Sharma, Nepalese-Australian novelist, story writer, poet and lyricist; Tracy Sorensen, novelist and academic; Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910), novelist, journalist and social reformer; Eleanor Spence (1928–2008), children's author; Dale Spender (1943–2023), feminist scholar, writer and consultant
Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote (after New Zealand in 1893) and the first to give women the right to be elected to a national parliament. [1] The Australian state of South Australia , then a British colony, was the first parliament in the world to grant some women full suffrage rights. [ 2 ]
The Liberal–National government's Second Morrison Ministry reached an historic high of seven women in Cabinet, including Foreign Minister Marise Payne, who previously served as Australia's first female Defence Minister, and became the longest-serving female senator in Australian history, as well as the longest current serving female member of ...
Daniels, Kay, ed. Australia's women, a documentary history: from a selection of personal letters, diary entries, pamphlets, official records, government and police reports, speeches, and radio talks (2nd ed. U of Queensland Press, 1989) 335pp. The first edition was entitled Uphill all the way : a documentary history of women in Australia (1980).
List of high commissioners of Australia to the United Kingdom; List of the first women appointed to Australian judicial positions; List of ambassadors and high commissioners of Australia; List of prime ministers of Australia; List of longest-serving members of the Parliament of Australia; People who have served in both Houses of the Australian ...