womens rights

Womens rights

Period: Jan 1, 1800 to Mar 27, 2014

Womens rights

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.

Jan 1, 1860

NSW Married Women's Property Act

Jan 1, 1879

First Australian Suffrage Society

Jan 1, 1884

Votes for women in South Australia

Jan 1, 1895

Women win the vote in Western Australia

May 15, 1900

First Australian Women to Receive the Vote

Mar 27, 1902

First Australian women stand for federal parliament elections

Mar 27, 1903

Votes for women in Tasmania

Mar 27, 1904

Australian Exhibition of Women’s Work opens

Jan 1, 1907

First female member of a local government council in Australia and Australia's first politician

Jan 1, 1919

First woman elected to an Australian parliament

Mar 28, 1921

First woman member speaks in the NSW Parliament

Mar 28, 1925

First women to have a seat in Federal Parliament

Mar 28, 1943

First women elected to the federal parliament

Mar 28, 1943

women receved equal pay as men

Mar 28, 1969

Australia celebrates International Women's Day

Mar 28, 1975

Women's History Month 2002 launched

Mar 28, 2002

Australia's first female Prime Minister

Mar 28, 2012

First Aboriginal woman to have a seat in federal parliament

Mar 28, 2013