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Who Was Jane Walker? Remembering Women's Activism, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Vera Mackie
Who Was Jane Walker? Remembering Women's Activism, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa, Vera Mackie
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In April 2019, Time Magazine released its annual list of the ‘100 most influential people’. Alongside such leaders as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, a surprising figure came in at number 101: Jane Walker.
Book Review: You Daughters Of Freedom: The Australians Who Won The Vote And Inspired The World, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Book Review: You Daughters Of Freedom: The Australians Who Won The Vote And Inspired The World, Sharon Crozier-De Rosa
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
In 1911, while visiting London, Australian suffragist Vida Goldstein was embroiled in a heated debate with a male correspondent to the British Anti-Suffrage Review about the relative merits of British and Australian women voters. The British man was exasperated by Goldstein’s claims to parity. Australian women, voting as they had been since the early 1900s, voted only on provincial matters. If women were to vote in England, they would have a hand in directing the affairs of a vast and troublesome empire. Surely, he said, ‘not even the most enthusiastic Australian would dream of suggesting that the Imperial Parliament was …