Rights ofn women,migrants and indigenous people

By MillieTheHippo-melon

  • Van Diemens land

    Van Diemens land (Tasmania) settlers are authorized to shoot aboriginals in response to Aboriginal resistence. Aboriginal resisting arrest

  • First Female Workers Riot

    First Female Workers Riot occured at the Parramatta Female Factory over conditions and food deprivation.

  • Victorian Women with Equal Voting rights in Local Government

    From the 1860s (and possibly as early as 1856), Victorian women landowners had equal rights with male landowners to vote in Victorian Local Government elections.

  • Aboriginal resistence

    150 Aborigines are killed resisting arrest in the Aboriginal resistence

  • NSW Married Women's Property Act

  • First Australian Suffrage Society

    Henrietta Dugdale and Annie Lowe formed the Victorian Women’s Suffrage Society

  • Organising women’s suffrage in South Australia

    Women’s Suffrage League formed in South Australia

  • Call for

    On January 14, 1890, a public meeting in Adelaide was held to form the "Women's Trade Union of South Australia," Mrs. Mary Lee, in speaking said : " They wished to insist upon equal pay for equal work without regard to sex. " South Aiustralian Register 15 Jan, 1890

  • Kimberley's Commenwealth of Australia

    Jandamarra, or Pigeon, an Aboriginal resistence fighter, declares war on white invaders in the West Kimberley's and prevents settlement for 6 years'
    Kimberley's Commenwealth of Australia

  • Votes for women in South Australia

    The proclamation of South Australia's Suffrage Act, assented to by Queen Victoria on 2 February, gave women an equal right with men to vote, and to stand for election to the Colony's House of Assembly.
    Women with property could also vote in Legislative Council elections, but women could not stand for the upper House of the parliament until 1959.

  • Women win the vote in Western Australia

    West Australian women win the vote in WA elections with Queen Victoria’s assent to the Bill passed by the WA parliament on 15 December 1899

  • Commenwealth of Australia

    Indigenous Australians are excluded from the cencus and the lawmaking of the parliment

  • Women vote in federal election

  • Suffragetes formed

    Viva Goldstein, Nellie Martel, Mary Ann Moore Bentley and Selina Anderson

  • WW1

    1914 - 1918 - women completed some jobs in workforce

  • Children taken

    Beginning of WW1. Approximately 400-500 Aboriginal children continue to be removed from there families during the period 1914 to 1918, including children whose fathers were oversea's at war

  • 1st Female Police officerts

    South Australia and New South Wales appoint the first female police officers

  • The Northern Territory Aboriginal Act

    Aboriginal people could not drink or possess or supply alcohol or methylated spirits

  • 1st Female on politics

    Edith Cowan, Kate Cocks and Annie ross were the first female politicians

  • Womens work

    Minimum wage for women's work set at 54% of the male rate

  • CWA

    CWA first women's fundraising

  • First Female speaker in NSW

  • Aboriginal act

    Under the Aborigines act Aboriginal people have accsess to the same rights as white skinned people

  • Widow's pensions were introduced

  • WW2

    WW2 Female in workforce to replace the men

  • First women elected to federal parliment

    Enid Lyons and Doroth Tangney were elected in federal parliment

  • Australian citizenship act

    Australian Citizenship Act gives Indigenous Austrlalians the vote in Commenwealth elections

  • Aboriginal women (and men) can vote

    All aboriginal women (and men) were finally aloud to vote

  • Rights to vote

    All the Indigenous people are given the vote in Commenwealth elections

  • Atomic tests in Australia

    Atomc tests are conducted on Maraglina lands in South Australia, leaving many Aborigines suffering radiation sickness

  • Aboriginals have the same rights as white australians

    Policy of Assmilation is adopted to make Aboriginal people the same as white

  • Uluru

    Uluru was handed back to the Aboriginal people

  • First aboriginal women to win gold

    Cathy Freeman wins gold at commenwealth games in 1990

  • Opportunity for women

    Equal opportunity for wowen in the workplace

  • First Female deputy prime minister

    Julia Gillard becomes deputy prime minister

  • First female govenor Australia

    Quentin Byree

  • Kevin Rudd's sorry speech

    Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's sorry speech

  • First Female prime minister

    Julia Gillard becomes prime minister

  • Tony Abbott

    Tony abbott wants to take down tent embassy

  • First Aboriginal women to have seat in federal parliment