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=Womens Suffrage=


 * __Womens suffrage__**

By Laughlin & Matthew In 1891 a petition with 30,000 signatures was presented at Victorian Parliament, this is just one of the many acts to help women get the vote.

“A woman's options are useless to her, she may suffer unjustly, she may be wronged, but she has no power to weightly petition against man's laws, no representatives to urge views, her only method to produce, release, redress, or change, is to ceasessly agitate.” Louisa Lawson, speech to inaugral meeting of the Dawn Club, published in dawn, July 1889.

Some movements actually thought women were better than men, some thought they should be equal. In 1901 women could stand for parliament at state level.

In 1893, New Zealand became the first major self governing country in the world to give women the vote. Campaigns for women's suffrage started in Australia around the early 1880’s. In some ways, these campaigns led to the start of women's participation in the Australian political prosess. South Australian women were given rights in 1894, next was Western Australia in 1899, New South Wales in 1902, Tasmania in 1903, Queensland in 1904 and finally Victoria in 1908. Now women are expected to vote and run for parliament.