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Daniels, Kay, ed. Australia's women, a documentary history: from a selection of personal letters, diary entries, pamphlets, official records, government and police reports, speeches, and radio talks (2nd ed. U of Queensland Press, 1989) 335pp. The first edition was entitled Uphill all the way : a documentary history of women in Australia (1980).
Aboriginal women carrying a child wrapped in pelt cloak, South Australia, c. 1860. Despite efforts to bar their enlistment, over 1,000 Indigenous Australians fought for Australia in the First World War. [179] 1934 saw the first appeal to the High Court by an Aboriginal Australian, and it succeeded.
Truganini (c. 1812 – 8 May 1876), also known as Lalla Rookh and Lydgugee, [1] was a woman famous for being widely described as the last "full-blooded" Aboriginal Tasmanian to survive British colonisation. Although she was one of the last speakers of the Indigenous Tasmanian languages, Truganini was not the last Aboriginal Tasmanian. [2]
It includes Australian women that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Indigenous Australian people .
Women's groups, such as the Australian Federation of Women Voters and the National Council of Women of Australia, became advocates for Indigenous issues in the 1920s. [183] The first Indigenous political organisation was the Australian Aboriginal Progressive Association , established in 1924, with 11 branches and more than 500 Indigenous ...
Following the inclusion of non-indigenous women in the 1903 election, many Australian women and the Australian government, led by Prime Minister Alfred Deakin, used their experience to promote women's suffrage in the United Kingdom and elsewhere.
Western Australian law denied the vote to Indigenous people who didn't meet a property qualification. [5] 1895 All adult women in South Australia, including Indigenous women, won the right to vote. 1901 The Commonwealth Constitution came into effect, giving the newly created Commonwealth Parliament the authority to pass federal voting laws ...
[4] [12] [13] She was the first Aboriginal woman to be selected to represent Australia in sport, and until 2019 (following the selection of Ashleigh Gardner [14]) was the only Indigenous woman to play test cricket for Australia.