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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). [2]
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.
Suffrage in Australia is the voting rights in the Commonwealth of Australia, its six component states (before 1901 called colonies) and territories, and local governments. The colonies of Australia began to grant universal male suffrage from 1856, with women's suffrage on equal terms following between the 1890s and 1900s.
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 ]
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).
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment.The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848, when ...
The introduction of women's political rights in Australia; Parliament Right to vote (a) Right to stand Commonwealth 1902 (b) 1902 State: South Australia 1894 1894 Western Australia 1899 1920 New South Wales 1902 1918 Tasmania 1903 1921 Queensland 1905 1915 Victoria 1908 1923 (a) The dates for the right to vote at State level refer to equal ...
Australian broadcaster ABC and other TV networks have projected that at least four states - New South Wales, Tasmania, Queensland and South Australia - would vote against altering the 122-year-old ...