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Started in 1894, this magazine was the official organ of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and was entirely edited by women working from offices at 80 Albion Street, Sydney. According to their Managing Editor, the intent of the publication was to make the Governments of Australia in general, and that of New South Wales in ...
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. Some jurisdictions ...
The first was the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society, was formed by Henrietta Dugdale in 1884. The organisations involved in the suffrage movement varied across the colonies. A national body, the Australian Women's Suffrage Society, was formed in 1889, whose aims were to educate women and men about a woman's right to vote and stand for parliament.
Women's suffrage in Australia was one of the early achievements of Australian democracy. Following the progressive establishment of male suffrage in the Australian colonies from the 1840s to the 1890s, an organised push for women's enfranchisement gathered momentum from the 1880s, and began to be legislated from the 1890s.
Mary was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New South Wales. Together with Rose Scott, Mary was a founder of the NSW Women's Literary Society which developed into the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales and Mary was the foundation president. [1] She became Lady Mary when William was knighted in 1891. [6]
Mary Windeyer (1836–1912) – women's suffrage campaigner in New South Wales May Jordan McConnel (1860–1929) – trade unionist and suffragist, member of the Women's Equal Franchise Association Maybanke Anderson (1845–1927) – promoter of women's and children's rights, campaigner for women's suffrage and federation
Rose Scott (8 October 1847 – 20 April 1925) was an Australian women's rights activist who advocated for women's suffrage and universal suffrage in New South Wales at the turn-of-the twentieth century. She founded the Women's Political Education League in 1902 which campaigned successfully to raise the age of consent to sixteen.
Henrietta Dugdale formed the first Australian women's suffrage society in Melbourne in 1884. Women became eligible to vote for the Parliament of South Australia in 1895.