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Rose Scott
Rose Scott (8 October 1847 – 20 April 1925) was an Australian women's rights activist who advocated for women's suffrage and universal suffrage in New South Wales at the turn-of-the twentieth century. She founded the Women's Political Education League in 1902 which campaigned successfully to raise the Age of consent in Australia, age of consent to sixteen. Early life Scott was the daughter of Helenus Scott (1802–1879) and Sarah Ann Scott (née Rusden) aka Saranna, the fifth of eight children, and a granddaughter of Helenus Scott (1760–1821), a Scottish physician. Her cousins were the naturalists Harriet Morgan (née Scott) and Helena Scott. She was educated at home with her closest sister Augusta. From an early age, Rose Scott was influenced by injustices she perceived towards women in history and literature such as Joan of Arc and Katherina (Kate) Minola, Katherina Minola in ''The Taming of the Shrew''. Women's rights work Scott was essentially an Individualism, individu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singleton, New South Wales
Singleton is a town on the banks of the Hunter River (New South Wales), Hunter River in New South Wales, Australia. Singleton is 202km (126 mi) north-north-west of Sydney, and 70 km (43 mi) north-west of Newcastle, New South Wales, Newcastle. As of 2023, Singleton had an estimated urban population of 17,503. Estimated resident population, 2023. Singleton's main urban area includes the town centre, Singleton Heights, Dunolly, Darlington, The Retreat, Wattle Ponds and Hunterview. Surrounding rural villages include Broke, New South Wales, Broke, Camberwell, New South Wales, Camberwell, Jerrys Plains, New South Wales, Jerrys Plains, Goorangoola/Greenlands, Belford, New South Wales, Belford and Lower Belford. Singleton is located on the north-eastern part of the geological structure known as the Sydney basin, which borders the New England (New South Wales), New England region. Singleton is now home to a $100 million dollar lottery winner, the highest in the town’s h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Free Trader
Free Trader was a political label used in the United Kingdom by several candidates in the 1906 general election and January 1910 general election. Many were Conservative Party or Liberal Unionist politicians opposed to Joseph Chamberlain's campaign for tariff reform. Initially many belonged to the Unionist Free Food League created in July 1903 to counter the influence of the Tariff Reform League in the Unionist government of Arthur Balfour. However as many local Conservative and Liberal Unionist associations supported Chamberlain's campaign, those who opposed Tariff Reform found their position precarious. They eventually split three ways with some staying in the Unionist coalition in the hope Tariff Reform could be beaten internally, others joining the staunchly free trade Liberal Party and a few choosing to run as independent Free Traders. Those standing as Free Traders were concentrated in university constituencies, led by John Eldon Gorst, who had been previously elected as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Council Of Women Of Australia
The National Council of Women of Australia (NWA) is an Australian organisation founded in 1931. The council is an umbrella organization, umbrella organisation with which are affiliated seven State and Territory National Councils of Women. It is non-party political, non-sectarian, volunteer organisation and open to all women. It first affiliated with the International Council of Women in 1896, through the New South Wales NCW. That NSW organisation was created on 26 August 1896 in Sydney Town Hall by eleven women-related organisations. The Constituent councils were formed in: * New South Wales −1896 * Tasmania – 1899, * Victoria and South Australia – 1902 * National Council of Women of Queensland – 1905 * Western Australia −1911 * Australian Capital Territory −1939 * Northern Territory – 1964. The NCWA works on a Triennium basis and holds a conference every 18 months to encourage participation in its policy platform. The Pacific Assembly was a gathering in Brisbane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zara Aronson
Zara Baar Aronson (; 1864–1944) was a Sydney-based journalist, editor, welfare worker, feminist and restaurateur of Jewish background. She was born in Australia but spent her formative years in Europe, before returning to Sydney where she became a socialite as well as a social columnist and journalist in a number of major newspapers across Australian cities. She pursued social and charity work as well as her own business in publishing, food and catering. Aronson helped form the Society for Women Writers and a local branch of John O'London's Literary Circle, and was a founding member and secretary of the National Council of Women of Australia. During World War II she raised funds for the Junior Red Cross by selling a cookery book, after which she published another well-received cookbook, ''Twentieth Century Cookery Practice''. In later life she was made a civil officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to the community. Early life Aronson was born in S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Elizabeth Armitage
Dora Elizabeth Armitage (14 July 1858 – 30 May 1945) was an American-born teacher of typing. She was one of the first in Australia. She was a leading member of the National Council of Women. Life Armitage was born in 1858 in St. Clair, Michigan. She went to England for her education and in 1877 she was in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) where she married Charles Cyrus Armitage. They had four children in Ceylon, but her husband's business collapsed and she took their four children to the UK. Five years later her husband was in Australia where his new business was also failing. Dora and three of their children went out to join him in Sydney. She knew how to type and she supported the family by teaching others. In 1888 she was at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition where she won a medal for her typing. Her testimonial about her Calligraph typewriter was used by its manufacturers in their advertising. She had bought a Caligraph 2 when she arrived in Australia and this was a model tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Connon
Helen Connon ( 1860 – 22 February 1903) was an educational pioneer from Christchurch, New Zealand. She was the first woman in the British Empire to receive a university degree with honours. Early life Connon was born in Melbourne, in 1859 or 1860 to George Connon, a Welsh carpenter and his Scottish wife Helen Hart. She was their second child. The family arrived in Dunedin around 1862. Education In Dunedin, Connon was taught by a newly qualified teacher, Robert Stout; he would later become Prime Minister of New Zealand. After the family moved to Hokitika, she was enrolled in Hokitika Academy – a boys' school, because the local girls school (a Dame school) was considered inadequate by her mother. At this school she soon outshone the boys. The principal was impressed and opened a class for girls, placing the 15-year-old Helen in charge. When she was 16, she received a school prize called "Facile princeps" – "Easily the Best". In 1874 the family moved to Christchurch a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Macdonald
Louisa Macdonald (10 December 1858 – 28 November 1949) was an educationist and women's suffragist. Early life and education Louisa Macdonald was born in 1858 in Arbroath, Scotland, the eleventh child of Ann (née Kid) and John Macdonald, town clerk and lawyer. Louisa and her sister Isabella enrolled at the University College, London, where they were among the first residents in College Hall. Macdonald graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1884 with first class honours in classics and honours in German. She graduated with a Master of Arts in classics in 1886 and took up an immediate career in education by providing lectures and private lessons for students of College Hall. Professional career By 1891 Macdonald had become a Fellow of the University College, London. Macdonald was chosen from a field of 65 applicants to be the founding principal of the Women's College Women's colleges in higher education are undergraduate, bachelor's degree-granting institutions, often lib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bavin
Sir Thomas Rainsford Bavin, (5 May 1874 – 31 August 1941) was an Australian lawyer and politician who served as Premier of New South Wales from 1927 to 1930. He was born in New Zealand and arrived in Australia at the age of 15, where he studied law and became a barrister. He served as personal secretary to Australia's first two prime ministers, Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. Bavin was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1917. He served two terms as Attorney General of New South Wales (1921, 1922–1925) before leading the Nationalist Party to victory at the 1927 state election, in a coalition with the Country Party. His predecessor Jack Lang and the Australian Labor Party (ALP) defeated his government after a single term at the 1930 state election. Early years Born in Kaiapoi, New Zealand to a Methodist minister and his wife, Bavin was educated at Auckland Grammar School until 1889 when his family moved to Sydney and Bavin enrolled at Newington Coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
