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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] |
Vida Goldstein
Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (pron. ) (13 April 186915 August 1949) was an Women's suffrage in Australia, Australian suffragist and social reformer. She was one of four female candidates at the 1903 Australian federal election, 1903 federal election, the first at which women were eligible to stand. Goldstein was known both for her public speaking and as an editor of pro-suffrage publications. Despite her efforts campaigning for women's suffrage in Victoria, it was the last Australian state to implement equal voting rights, with women not granted the right to vote until 1908. In 1903, Goldstein unsuccessfully contested the Australian Senate, Senate as an Independent politician, independent, winning 16.8 percent of the vote. She was one of the first four women to stand for Parliament of Australia, federal parliament, along with Selina Anderson, Nellie Martel, and Mary Moore-Bentley. Goldstein ran for parliament a further four times, and despite never winning an election won back her De ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1910 Australian Federal Election
The 1910 Australian federal election was held in Australia on 13 April 1910. All 75 seats in the House of Representatives, and 18 of the 36 seats in the Senate were up for election. The incumbent Liberal Party (formed by the fusion of the Protectionist Party and the Anti-Socialist Party in 1909) led by Prime Minister Alfred Deakin was defeated by the opposition Australian Labor Party (ALP) led by Andrew Fisher. The election represented a number of landmarks: it was Australia's first elected federal majority government; Australia's first elected Senate majority; the world's first labour party majority government at a national level; after the 1904 Chris Watson minority and Fisher's former minority government the world's third labour party government at a national level; the first time it controlled ''both'' houses of a bicameral legislature; and the first time that a prime minister, in this case Deakin, was defeated at an election. It also remains the only election in Austral ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman Voter
''The Woman Voter'' was a monthly suffragist journal published in New York City by the Woman Suffrage Party (WSP). It ran between 1910 and 1917. The first editor was Mary Ritter Beard. Beard created a suffragist publication which was unique in offering coverage of topics that "cut across class, age and organizational boundaries." History ''The Woman Voter'' was created in 1909 in order to keep members of the Woman Suffrage Party (WSP) informed about party activities, updated with pertinent news and editorials relating to women's suffrage. The back of the publication included a "membership blank" to help increase the size of the WSP. Beard started as editor of the journal in 1910. With Beard's leadership, the ''Voter'' expanded its offerings, providing longer articles, stories about workers, and also stories for children about suffrage. Beard also gave room in the ''Voter'' for the opinions of trade unionist, Leonora O'Reilly. The author of 'The Woman Voter' was Vida Goldstein, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women's International League For Peace And Freedom
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different political views and philosophical and religious backgrounds determined to study and make known the causes of war and work for a permanent peace" and to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation. WILPF has national sections in 37 countries. The WILPF is headquartered in Geneva and maintains a United Nations office in New York City. Organizational history WILPF developed out of the International Women's Congress against World War I that took place in The Hague, Netherlands, in 1915 and the formation of the International Women's Committee of Permanent Peace;Paull, John (2018The Women Who Tried to Stop the Great War: The International Congress of Women at The Hague 1915 In A. H. Campbell (Ed.), Global Leadership Initiatives for Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding (pp. 249-266). (Ch.12) Hershey, PA: IGI Globa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecilia John
Cecilia Annie John (5 November 187728 May 1955) was an Australian social activist, peace campaigner, and musician. Early life John was born on 5 November 1877 in Hobart, Tasmania to parents who were immigrants from Wales. She left her parents' home while young and moved to Melbourne to study music. She was a contralto and performed with the Metropolitan Liedertafel, the Royal Melbourne Philharmonic Society, and the German Opera Company. John also became an expert in the field of raising poultry, having started her own poultry farm at Deepdene in order to finance her musical education. Career Joining the Collins Street Independent Church, John became interested in social questions and adopted feminist and anti- conscriptionist views that were radical for the time. She was a friend of Vida Goldstein and assisted in her attempt to enter Parliament in 1913, and was a member of the anti-conscription Australian Freedom League. When Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes proposed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woman's Sphere
''Australian Woman's Sphere'' was a monthly journal published by Vida Goldstein which advocated for women's suffrage in Victoria. The title of the magazine was an objection to the traditional view that a woman's sphere is her home. Because Goldstein supported the idea that a woman's sphere is the world. The journal was first published in Melbourne, Victoria Melbourne ( , ; Boonwurrung language, Boonwurrung/ or ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city of the States and territories of Australia, Australian state of Victori ..., in September 1900. Its last issue numbered 46 appeared on 15 June 1904. References External links Scanned copy of all editions of ''Australian Woman's Sphere'' at the State Library of New South Wales 1900 establishments in Australia 1904 establishments in Australia Defunct magazines published in Australia Feminism in Victoria (state) Defunct feminist magazines Magaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
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] |
Premier Of Victoria
The premier of Victoria is the head of government of the state of Victoria in Australia. The premier leads the Cabinet of Victoria and selects its ministers. The premier is appointed by the governor of Victoria, must be a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, and command confidence in the lower house of the Parliament of Victoria. The premier is usually the leader of the political party that holds a majority of lower house members. Each premier since 1933, apart from short-serving Premier Ian Macfarlan, has had a portrait commissioned for the Victorian Parliament's portrait collection. The tradition was initiated by Legislative Council President Fred Grimwade. Premiers who have served for over 3,000 days have a statue created in their honor. As of 2024, six premiers have achieved this milestone and four have their statues near the premier's office at 1 Treasury Place. The longest-serving premier is Henry Bolte of the Liberal Party, who served for over 17 year ... [...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] |
Women's Suffrage In Victoria
Women's suffrage in Victoria, when women gained the right to vote in the state, was the result of many years of campaigning before Federation of Australia in the Colony of Victoria, and for eight years after in the State of Victoria. It was connected to the wider push for Women's suffrage in Australia. And yet while Victoria's campaign started earlier than other states, early lobbying culminated in the formation of Australia's first suffrage group, the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society (VWSS) in 1884, it was the last to grant state suffrage to women in 1908. Decades before the formation of the VWSS, women landowners, such as Fanny Finch in the colony identified that they were technically enfranchised in local election through their status as rate payers and attempted to lodge their votes. However, they were blocked from exercising this right by electoral administrators. In 1865 the legislators in the Colony removed the technicality by changing the language of legislation to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
