by Catherine Helen Spence The grand democratic basis of the Commonwealth constitution of “one man one vote,” needs to be expanded into “one adult one vote,” and “one vote one value”| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
a member of a church which allows women to speak in the pulpit, a citizen of a State which gives womanhood a vote for the Assembly, a citizen of a Commonwealth which fully enfranchises me for both …| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
“there will be no rest until man is recognised as man, without distinction of colour or clime”| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
Mrs Chisholm became a familiar figure on the wharves in Sydney, meeting every ship, finding positions for immigrant women and sheltering many of them in her home.| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
The obverse of the Lone Hand (and of his mate, the Brave Anzac) is that it was women who were left to manage not just the home, but the industry which maintains the home.| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
By Jennifer Cameron-Smith At night the land took back the silence of its centuries, and lay passive as it had done since the dawn of time under the indifferent stars.| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
from the 1970s women protested their absence from historical accounts, but failed to recognise that first wave feminists had proposed an alternative to the dominant male myth;| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
The relationship between Drysdale and Newcomb is, in a low key way, occasionally celebrated by the queer community. But the diary provides few insights into the women’s emotional lives| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
Suffragism was state (colony) based up until Federation on 1 Jan 1901, and voting rights for the first federal election were based on voting rights in the individual states| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
By Janine Rizetti. [Vida] was mainstream middle-class, stylishly dressed and a very capable public speaker, and she spearheaded the ‘No’ case during the Conscription referendum campaigns.| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
By Sue/Whispering Gums. Australia was a leader in women’s suffrage by being the first nation to legislate suffrage for all white adult Australian women, without property qualifications, and to enab…| Australian Women Writers Challenge Blog
