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The name Australia has been applied to two continents. Originally, it was applied to the south polar continent, or sixth continent, now known as Antarctica.The name is a shortened form of Terra Australis which was one of the names given to the imagined (but undiscovered) land mass that was thought to surround the south pole.
Suffrage in Australia is the voting rights in the Commonwealth of Australia, its six component states (before 1901 called colonies) and territories, and local governments. The colonies of Australia began to grant universal male suffrage from 1856, with women's suffrage on equal terms following between the 1890s and 1900s.
Western Australia: West Australian women gained the vote but there was a property qualification for "Aboriginal natives of Australia, Asia or Africa" and people of mixed descent. [43] The property qualification (ownership of land that was valued at least £100) excluded virtually all such persons from the franchise.
The history of Australia from 1901 to 1945 begins with the federation of the six colonies to create the Commonwealth of Australia. The young nation joined Britain in the First World War, suffered through the Great Depression in Australia as part of the global Great Depression and again joined Britain in the Second World War against Nazi Germany in 1939.
Female suffrage, and the right to stand for office, was first won in South Australia in 1895. [207] Women won the vote in Western Australia in 1899, with racial restrictions. Women in the rest of Australia only won full rights to vote and to stand for elected office in the decade after Federation, although there were some racial restrictions.
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It was her time at the New Hospital which was her inspiration to one day found a hospital that was run 'by women, for women'. [1] [5] Dr_Constance_Stone,_1890. In 1890, after she returned to Australia, she became the first woman to be registered with the Medical Board of Victoria. [6] Her sister, Grace 'Clara' Stone followed her into medicine.
It’s a question plenty of users are discussing now, thanks to one woman’s viral TikTok. The clip comes from a user named Sophia (@sophiainsydney), an American who now lives in Sydney, Australia.