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United Council For State Suffrage
The United Council for State Suffrage (UCSS), formerly the United Council for Woman Suffrage, was founded in the Colony of Victoria, Australia, in 1894 by Annette Bear-Crawford, to unite the existing groups who were fighting for women's suffrage in Victoria, and to create a coordinated effort to agitate for legislative change. The UCSS was an umbrella organisation that did not disrupt the efforts, or broader agendas of the individual groups, but brought them together on the singular focus of gaining the vote for women first in the Colony of Victoria, and then after the Federation of Australia, the State of Victoria. Formation At the time there were a number of groups working towards women's suffrage including the Australian Women's Suffrage Society, the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society, and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria (WCTU). Annette Bear-Crawford convinced the groups that they needed to be united through another organisation to coordinate their lobbyin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annette Bear-Crawford
Annette Ellen Bear-Crawford (born Annette Ellen Bear, 23 February 1853 – 7 June 1899) was an Australian women's suffragist and social reformer in Victoria (Australia), Victoria. She was instrumental in uniting and training the women's suffrage organisations in the Colony of Victoria to coordinate a sustained campaign for women to gain the vote. She established a shilling fund to found the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. She was a social reformer, and successfully agitated to have the age of consent increased, and have women involved in factory inspecting, and policing to ensure the safety of women. Bear-Crawford died unexpectedly from pneumonia, aged 46, while on a trip to England to attend the Women's International Conference. She did not live to see women gain the vote in Victoria or Australia. She also died a week before the opening of the Queen Victoria Hospital, Melbourne. In 2007, she was inducted into the Victorian Honour roll of women. Early life Bear-Crawford was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Legislative Council
The Victorian Legislative Council is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Victoria, Australia, the lower house being the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Legislative Assembly. Both houses sit at Parliament House, Melbourne, Parliament House in Spring Street, Melbourne. The Legislative Council serves as a house of review, in a similar fashion to its federal counterpart, the Australian Senate. Although it is possible for legislation to be first introduced in the Council, most bills receive their first hearing in the Legislative Assembly. The presiding officer of the chamber is the President of the Victorian Legislative Council, President of the Legislative Council. The Council presently comprises 40 members serving four-year terms from eight electoral regions each with five members. With each region electing 5 members using the single transferable vote, the quota in each region for election, after distribution of preferences, is 16.7% (one-sixth). Ballot papers for electi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Organisations Based In Victoria (state)
An organization or organisation (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is an entity—such as a company, or corporation or an institution (formal organization), or an association—comprising one or more people and having a particular purpose. Organizations may also operate secretly or illegally in the case of secret societies, criminal organizations, and resistance movements. And in some cases may have obstacles from other organizations (e.g.: MLK's organization). What makes an organization recognized by the government is either filling out incorporation or recognition in the form of either societal pressure (e.g.: Advocacy group), causing concerns (e.g.: Resistance movement) or being considered the spokesperson of a group of people subject to negotiation (e.g.: the Polisario Front being recognized as the sole representative of the Sahrawi people and forming a partially recognized state.) Compare the concept of social groups, which may include non-organizat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Suffrage In Australia
Women's suffrage in Australia was one of the early achievements of Australian democracy. Following the progressive establishment of male suffrage in the Australian colonies from the 1840s to the 1890s, an organised push for women's enfranchisement gathered momentum from the 1880s, and began to be legislated from the 1890s. South Australian women achieved the right to vote and to stand for office in 1895, following the '' Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act 1894'' which gained royal assent the following year. Western Australia granted women the right to vote from 1899, although with racial restrictions. In 1902, the newly established Australian Parliament passed the '' Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902'', which gave women equal voting rights to men and the right to stand for federal parliament (although excluding almost all non-white people of both sexes). By 1908, the remaining Australian states had legislated for women's suffrage for state elections. Grace Benny was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Women's Franchise League
The Victorian Women's Franchise League, also known as the Victorian Women's Suffrage League was founded in the Colony of Victoria, Australia, in 1894 by Annette Bear-Crawford and the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria. Its purpose was to provide moderate Christian women an option to get involved in the movement to win women's suffrage in Victoria, without having to associate with the broader agendas of other suffrage groups at the time. History Formation A motion was moved on 20 February 1894 at the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria meeting to create a new suffrage organisation. A notice was posted in the newspaper on 19 March 1894, that a new suffrage league was to be formed. It invited interested parties to attend the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Victoria's headquarters on Flinders Street, near Russell Street in Melbourne on 21 March 1894. Mrs Press chaired the meeting, and the council was elected, and included vice presidents Constance S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's Political Association Of Victoria
The Women's Political Association of Victoria (WPA), also known as Women's Political Association and Women's Federal Political Association was founded in State of Victoria, Australia, in 1903 by Vida Goldstein and its purpose was to educate women in political matters. Non-indigenous women had gained the federal vote in and the association initially focussed educating the newly enfranchised women on politics, elections and the running of parliament with meetings, pamphlets, mock elections, and a women's parliament. However it quickly turned to political campaigning for Goldstein's run for Federal Parliament. It supported her through five elections, including three runs for the Senate in 1903, 1910, 1917, and two runs for the lower house seat of Kooyong in 1913 and 1914. In 1904 it joined the fight for women's suffrage in Victoria. And in 1909 it launched it's monthly publication the ''Woman Voter''. In 1919 the Association was disbanded, and the publication ceased when Goldstein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Labor Party
The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known as the Labor Party or simply Labor, is the major Centre-left politics, centre-left List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia and one of two Major party, major parties in Politics of Australia, Australian politics, along with the Centre-right politics, centre-right Liberal Party of Australia. The party has been in government since the 2022 Australian federal election, 2022 federal election, and with List of state and territory branches of the Australian Labor Party, political branches active in all the States and territories of Australia, Australian states and territories, they currently hold government in New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria (state), Victoria, Western Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory. As of 2025, Queensland, Tasmania and Northern Territory are the only states or territories where Labor currently forms the opposition. It is the oldest continuously operating political party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Labor Party
The Victorian Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch) and commonly referred to simply as Victorian Labor, is the Victorian state branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). The party forms the incumbent government in the state of Victoria and is led by Jacinta Allan, who has served concurrently as Premier of Victoria since 2023. Victorian Labor comprises two major wings: the parliamentary wing and the organisational wing. The parliamentary wing (formally referred to as the State Parliamentary Labor Party) comprises all elected party members in the Legislative Assembly and Legislative Council, which when they meet collectively constitute the party caucus. The parliamentary leader is elected from and by the caucus, and party factions have a strong influence in the election of the leader. The leader's position is dependent on the continuing support of the caucus, and the leader may be deposed by failing to win a vote of confidence of parliame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bent
Sir Thomas Bent (7 December 1838 – 17 September 1909) was an Australian politician and the 22nd premier of Victoria. Early life Bent was born in Penrith, New South Wales the eldest of four sons and two daughters of James Bent, a hotel-keeper. He came to Melbourne with his parents in 1849. He went to school in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy, Victoria, Fitzroy, later becoming a market-gardener in Brighton East. In 1861 he became a rate collector for the town council of Brighton, Victoria, Brighton, then a fast-growing suburb. He soon began buying and selling land in Brighton, and became a property developer in new areas fairly close by, such as Moorabbin. He developed a major new subdivision of Bentleigh, Victoria, Bentleigh, later named after himself, on the other side of Nepean Highway opposite Brighton. He was a member of both Brighton and Moorabbin town councils and was Mayor of Brighton nine times. State politics In 1871 Bent was elected to the Victorian Legislative Ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Portland Guardian
''The Portland Guardian'' was a weekly newspaper published between 1842 and 1964 in the seaport town of Portland, Victoria, Australia. It was known as the ''Portland Guardian and Normanby General Advertiser'' from 1842 to 1876. It was founded by Thomas Wilkinson and James Swords, and was the second newspaper to be launched in country Victoria. After Wilkinson was elected to the first Victorian Legislative Council, he sold his interest in the paper to Rev. Thomas Elliott Richardson (1814–1869), brother of the artist C. D. Richardson. He was editor and proprietor of ''The Guardian'' from 1854 (or earlier) to 1863, in which year William Cooper became proprietor. It was eventually absorbed by local rival ''Portland Observer'', with the final issue appearing on 26 March 1964.Kirkpatrick, R. 2010, The bold type: a history of Victoria’s country newspapers, 1840-2010, Victorian Country Press Association Ltd, Ascot Vale, p. 216 See also * List of newspapers in Australia This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bendigo Independent
''The Bendigo Independent'' was a newspaper published in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. History The ''Independent'' was founded in Bendigo (also named Sandhurst) in or before March 1862. E. A. Banks (1854–1920) was the editor for many years. In November 1918 the management of the ''Independent'' purchased its competitor '' The Bendigo Advertiser'', and amalgamated the two titles under the banner of the latter. Digitization Copies of ''The Bendigo Independent'' of most issues froNo. 8428(1 January 1891) tNo. 14910(30 November 1918) have been digitized by the National Library of Australia The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "mainta ... and may be accessed via Trove. The newspaper was issued daily (except Sundays) during this period. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bendigo Ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne
St Paul's Cathedral is an Anglican cathedral in Melbourne, Australia. It is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Melbourne and the seat of the Archbishop of Melbourne, who is also the metropolitan archbishop of the Province of Victoria. The cathedral was designed by the English Gothic Revival architect William Butterfield and completed in 1891, except for the spires which were built to a different design from 1926 to 1932. It is one of Melbourne's major architectural landmarks. Location St Paul's Cathedral is in a prominent location at the centre of Melbourne, on the eastern corner of Swanston and Flinders streets. It is situated diagonally opposite Flinders Street station, which was the hub of 19th-century Melbourne and remains an important transport centre. Immediately to the south of the cathedral, across Flinders Street, is the new public heart of Melbourne, Federation Square. Continuing south down Swanston Street is Princes Bridge, which crosses the Yarra Riv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
