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Australia has a long-standing association with the protection and creation of women's rights. Australia was the second country in the world to give women the right to vote (after New Zealand in 1893) and the first to give women the right to be elected to a national parliament. [ 1 ]
Australia had led the world in bringing women's suffrage rights during the late 19th century. Propertied women in the colony of South Australia were granted the vote in local elections (but not parliamentary elections) in 1861. Henrietta Dugdale formed the first Australian women
Australian women have a higher life expectancy than men, with women's life expectancy being 84.2 years and men's life expectancy of 79.7. Despite this discrepancy, women's health gets four times more funding than men's health, with women's health getting $833 million since 2003 and men's health got less than $200 million.
The first was the Victorian Women's Suffrage Society, was formed by Henrietta Dugdale in 1884. The organisations involved in the suffrage movement varied across the colonies. A national body, the Australian Women's Suffrage Society, was formed in 1889, whose aims were to educate women and men about a woman's right to vote and stand for parliament.
In 1902, a union campaign [7] lead to equal pay for women working in the newly-established Commonwealth Public Service as telegraphists and “postmistresses.”. In 1907, in Ex parte H.V. McKay, [8] more commonly known as the Harvester case, H.B. Higgins of the Commonwealth Court of Conciliation and Arbitration determined that "fair and reasonable" wages for an unskilled male worker required ...
Human rights in Australia have largely been developed by the democratically elected Australian Parliament through laws in specific contexts (rather than a stand-alone, abstract bill of rights) and safeguarded by such institutions as the independent judiciary and the High Court, which implement common law, the Australian Constitution, and various other laws of Australia and its states and ...
Australian women's rights activists (1 C, 95 P) Women's suffrage in Australia (2 C, 11 P) Pages in category "Women's rights in Australia" The following 15 pages are ...
The Union of Australian Women (UAW) is a left-wing women's organisation concerned with local and international issues regarding women's rights, international peace and equality. The UAW was established in Sydney on 31 July 1950 in New South Wales. Branches in Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania soon followed ...