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Gentle Invaders: Australian Women at Work (Melbourne: Penguin, 1975). Saunders, Kay, and Raymond Evans, eds. Gender relations in Australia: Domination and negotiation (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992) Sheridan, Susan. Along the Faultlines: Sex, Race and nation in Australian Women’s Writing 1880s–1930s (St Leonard, Australia: Allen and Unwin ...
Australia's first woman Premier was Carmen Lawrence, becoming Premier of Western Australia in 1990. [3] The short-lived Australian Women's Party sought to ensure equal representation of men and women at all levels of government. Quentin Bryce was the first woman to hold the position of Governor-General of Australia between September 2008 and ...
Women from both South Australia and Western Australia voted at the 1901 election. [citation needed] On 12 June 1902 the Commonwealth Franchise Act came into effect, granting most Australian women the right to vote and stand in Commonwealth elections
The right to "a fair go" has been found to be the most highly rated value on a recent published survey of the opinion of Australian citizens. [239] This belief sustains bipartisan political support for strong public health and education systems in Australia, as well as equal opportunity legislation to ensure people are not excluded from jobs or ...
Multiculturalism in Australia is today reflected by the multicultural composition of its people, its immigration policies, its prohibition on discrimination, equality before the law of all persons, as well as various cultural policies which promote diversity, such as the formation of the Special Broadcasting Service.
The Australian Women's Health Alliance, formerly Australian Women's Health Alliance Network. is the peak organisation [1] for women's health in Australia. The organisation was formed by women who attended the inaugural Community Health Association Conference in September 1986, [ 2 ] and was incorporated on 3 March 1994. [ 3 ]
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.
South Australian women won the parliamentary vote in 1894 and Spence stood for office in 1897. Edith Cowan (1861–1932) was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Assembly in 1921 and was the first woman elected to any Australian Parliament. Women's suffrage in Australia was one of the early achievements of Australian democracy.