Hecate, May 1st, 2004
During the 1890s, women in Queensland finally decided they were not stopping until they got suffrage. By 1893, New Zealand women were enfranchised, and in 1894 South Australia became the first to give women the vote in State elections. Many took to heart Louisa Lawson's advice to those who met to form the Dawn Club in Sydney in 1889 that women's 'only method to procure release, redress, or change, is to ceaselessly agitate', and did just that for ten years from the militant public meetings in 1894 to the achievement of suffrage for (white) women in State elections in 1905, when Queensland be...
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