Author: WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE IN AUSTRALIA
Title: Latest News from Australia. Commonwealth Parliament's Verdict on Women's Suffrage.
Description: London Society for Women's Suffrage, [1910] Leaflet, printed and manuscript, 220 x 140 mm. This item may have at some time been mounted and will bear traces on the reverse of adhesive or removal of mounts. With a report from the Melbourne Argus of 6th December, 1909 on a resolution put to the Australian House, with notes verso, on the National Councils of Women for New South Wales, 1909. "Mr Deakin then read, amid approving cheers, the following draft resolution:- (I) That this House testifies to the facts that after 16 years' experience of Women Suffrage in various parts of Australia, and nine years' experience in the Commonwealth, the reform has justified the hopes of its supporters and falsified the fears and prophecies of disaster voiced by its opponents...." Although small states and regions had allowed women to vote under certain circumstance it was not until the mid-19th Century that it started to become more widespread. Various states in Australia helped lead the way, although the right was usually tempered by restrictive qualifications. By 1908 all the Australian states had signed up to equal voting rights to women in state elections. The U.K. had to wait until 1918 for women over 30 to be allowed to vote and 1928 before they were granted equal voting rights with men.

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