Professor Clare Wright OAM, Award-winning historian at La Trobe University & author of ‘You Daughters of Freedom: The Australians Who Won the Vote and Inspired the World”, joins Michael on the anniversary of Australia giving women the right to vote.

On June 12 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.

New Zealand was the first nation to give women the right to vote, but not to stand for parliament, in 1893.   Australia was seen as a pioneer of women’s political rights.

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