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Long Before the Anzacs April 25 Was the Day Women in Australia Got the Right to Vote

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This article is a historical account of women's suffrage in Australia with no commercial, supply-chain, or market mechanism. No company, commodity, or sector is affected. The event is purely political/social with no economic impact.

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  • Women in South Australia voted for the first time on April 25, 1896, due to a Constitutional Amendment passed in 1894.
  • The amendment also allowed women to sit in parliament, a world first.
  • 70,000 women registered to vote after the amendment.
  • Catherine Helen Spence became the first woman to stand for election in 1897.
  • The Commonwealth Franchise Act of 1902 excluded many Aboriginal people from voting until 1962.

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