Women Votes

By nicolee
  • New zealand was the first country in the world to give women the vote

  • The colony of South Australia granted women the right to vote in its elections

  • Western Australia gave women the right to vote

  • Newly established federal government of Australia passed the Franchise Bill

  • New South Wales gave the women the right to vote in state elections

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  • Tasmania gave the women the right to vote in state elections

  • Vida Goldstein was the first women to stand as a candiate for Federal Parliament

  • Queensland gave women the right to vote in state elections

  • Queensland gave women the right to vote in state elections

  • Victoria gave women the right to vote in state elections

  • Canada gave women the right to vote

  • Great Britian gave women over 30 the right to vote

  • United States gave women the right to vote

  • Great Britain gave women over 21 the right to vote

  • Enid Lyons and Dorothy Tangney became the first women to be elected to the Australia Parliament

  • Japan gave women the right to vote

  • Aboriginal people were given the right to vote in Federal Elections