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1869: Mrs Harris Dugdale wrote to newspapers calling for women's rights to vote to be fair
1884: the victorian women's suffrage is started
1889:‘The Dawn’ (feminist newspaper) edited by Louisa Lawson produced for and by women
1894: SA gives women the right to vote
1899: WA gives women the right to vote
1902: Australian women are allowed to vote and stand for election, except for indigenous women.
1903: Vida Goldstein is the first women to stand for election.
1921: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman in Parliament
1943: Enid Lyons becomes the first woman elected to Federal Lower House of Parliament.
1962: Indigenous women are now allowed to vote and stand for election.

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Louisa founded a magazine 'The dawn" which helped raise awareness of the unfair women's rights.

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"Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We’re not inherently anything but human." - Robin Morgan (1941- ), the feminist editor and writer.

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1. Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote in 1902.
2. Women fought for 17 years until they finally got the right to vote
3. Indigenous women had to wait until 1962, until they got to vote.
4. Women's rights to vote and stand for the election is also known as womens 'suffrage'.
5. The first womens rights convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York.
6. The women’s rights movement launched its own fashion craze.
7. Australia became one of the first nations in the world to let women vote

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Vida Goldstein ran 2 magazines to protect womens rights. She stood up for election 5 times although she did not succeed. Vida received many votes from other women and her election campaigns helped increase awareness of the way women were getting treated.

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During the 19th century, there was a lot of inequality between women and men. Women usually had to give up their job when they got married and they were expected to commit their lives to their families. They had little power and inequality. Women got paid much less then man even when they worked the same jobs. Females worked up to 90 hours a week and got paid not much. They got limited weekends off with hardly enough money for good, water, rent and other resources which were needed for their family. By 1913 wages began to change, but they were still low. Only few women who worked jobs such as fruit pickers earned equal pay for the equal work.

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Change for womens right would only change through political action. In the late 19th century, women formed organisations in each Australian colony. Many of the women hoped that womens votes, would force the government to make better laws which would protect women and children. Women who voted hoped that they would get better working conditions, equal pay, better education and more work opportunities. They also thought it might help stop violent abuse by having the right to vote.

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Vida Goldstein hepled to win the right to vote in Australia y standing for election 5 times and writing several magazines to promote women's rights.

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Only SA and the Commonwealth had given women the right to vote and to stand for election in Parliament. The right to stand up for election in WA was won in 1920, Tasmania in 1921 and in Victoria in 1923. Edith Cowan became first female member of parliament in Western Australia.