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Occured at Parramatta Female Factory over conditions and food deprivation.
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Henrietta Dugdale, Vida Goldstein and Annie Lowe formed the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society. (Date not exact)
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Formed in South Australia
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The SA government passed the bill on womens voting rights.
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The proclamation of South Australia's Suffrage Act, assanted to by Queen Victoria on 2nd February, gave women an equal right wiht men to vote, and to stand for election to the Colony's House of Assembly. Women with property could also vote in the Legislative Council elections.
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The WA parliament passed the bill for womens right to vote.
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Western Australian Women win the right to vote in WA elections with Queen Victoria's assent to the bill, passed by the WA parliament on 15th December 1899.
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Queen Victoria's Assent enacts the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution
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Commonwealth Franchise Act grants right to vote and stand for election for the Australian parliament to women on the same basis as men, with Aboriginal people in some states still without this right.
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Vida Goldstein, Nellie Martel and Mary Ann Moore Bentley stand for the Senate. And Selina Siggins stands for the seat of Dalley in the House of Representitives.
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Tasmania Women won the equal right to vote in elections for the House of Assembly. And women who owned property were eligible to vote for the Legislative Council.
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Women have equal right to stand for both the Upper House and the House of Assembly. (Dates not exact)
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Opening in Melbourne by Lady Northcote. With Pattie Deakin running a model creche during the five-week exhibition showcasing the work of musicians, artists and craftswomen.
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Victorian Women have equal right to vote in State elections. Women who meet the property qualification can vote in the Legislative Council elections.
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Women who served in WW1 (1914-1918) were eligible to vote for the Upper House.
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Edith Cown (Nationalist, West Perth) became the firt eoman to be elected for Australian parliament. She served in the Legislative Assembly until 22nd March 1924.
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Bessie Rischbieth founded this federation of Autralian women's political associations as a national group to liaise with international feminist organisations. And to advie the League of Nations. After 1922 Australia was one of the few member nations to comply with the equality provision in the covenant of the League in including a woman on each official delegation.
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Women won equal right to stand for elections in Victoria. (Dates not exact)
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Millicent Preston-Stanley, elected to the NSW House of Representitives for the United Australia Party in May, delivered her first speech two weeks after the opening of the parliament.
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Dame Enid Lyons becomes the first female member of the House of Representitives for the United Australia Party, and the Australian Labour Party's Dorothy Tangney takes a seat in the Senate representing Western Australia.
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Founded by Gladys Elphick, a Kaurna descendant. (Date not exact)
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Zelda chained herself to the Commonwealth Building in Melbourne. She was campaigning on women's workplace issues. (Date not exact)
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Australian female workers win equal pay rates with men doing comparable work under an Arbitration Commission decision for incremental increases.
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10 women met in a feminists home to discess ways of playing more influential foles in the election in Decemeber that year. (Date not exact)
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Pay parity achieved for women workers. (Date not exact)
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Australia held the first national conference from the 31st of August to the 6th of September.
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64 of 250 women were arrested for trying to march in the ANZAC parade to remember the women who were raped during the war.
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Australia become a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. (Date not exact)
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The official launch of the National Foundation for Australian Women
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Hon Margaret Reid, Senator for the ACT and Presidant of the Sneate, launched Women's History Month in Parliament House, Canberra.
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Was awarded to Zelda for her campaigning in 1969. (Date not exact)