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the gold rush
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of male workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered, leaving woman having to provide with limited job options. -
woman can vote in SA
The suffragists achieved their goal on 18 December 1894, when the Adult Suffrage Bill passed in the South Australian Parliament, allowing women to vote and stand for parliament -
woman can vote evrywere
In 1902, the Commonwealth Parliament passed the uniform Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902, which enabled women 21 years of age and older to vote at elections for the federal Parliament. The States soon gave women over 21 the vote: New South Wales in 1902, Tasmania in 1903, Queensland in 1905, and Victoria in 1908. -
ww1
Nearly 3 000 Australian women enlisted in World War One and served as nurses who cared for the wounded and nearly half of them died. -
first woman to compete in a sport
the first woman to compete in the olympick games in austraila was in 1890 the woman who competed was Fanny Durack -
world war 2
25,000 women joined the Australian Women's Army Service and
A total of 730,000 men enlisted in the Australian Army during the war.
1 September 1939 -
first woman to get elected
in 1902 austrailia became the 2nd country in the world to give women the right to vote an be elected into parlament.
However, despite this ground-breaking legislation, it took another 41 years for the first women to be elected to the Australian Parliament.
In 1943 Enid Lyons became the Member for Darwin (in Tasmania) in the House of Representatives, and Dorothy Tangney was elected to represent Western Australia in the Senate. -
first woman prime minister
Julia Gillard is made the first woman as prime minister
june 24th 2010