tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post3628832758152799027..comments2024-03-28T22:50:02.315+11:00Comments on ART and ARCHITECTURE, mainly: First women in the world to be enfranchised - New Zealand 1893Helshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-36977157086540461892017-12-10T19:03:09.542+11:002017-12-10T19:03:09.542+11:00Joseph
the South Australian page is rightly very ...Joseph<br /><br />the South Australian page is rightly very proud of the state's social and political progressive history. <br /><br />But I am not sure about differentiating between states that were originally established as British penal colonies Vs those that were not. NSW and Tasmania DID receive their convicts directly from Britain from the very beginning, as did WA decades later. Queensland and Victoria only accepted a small number of convicts later on, mostly from NSW.Helsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-85856890429341186032017-12-10T10:47:10.143+11:002017-12-10T10:47:10.143+11:00Helen
I found this in Women & Politics in Sou...Helen<br /><br />I found this in Women & Politics in South Australia http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/women_and_politics/why_sa.htm. <br /><br />Why did the early granting of women's suffrage happen in South Australia, before any of the other states in Australia? South Australia is a special place, socially and politically. It has a long history of social reform. Unique in the history of Australia—the only Australian state not established as a British penal colony, but something of a social 'best practice' development, with its capital Adelaide a model of town planning, "the garden of Paradise".<br /><br />Unique in the history of the world—the first representative government in the world to allow women to become Members of Parliament, and the third in the world to give women the right to vote "on the cutting edge of democracy". A special place for the development of social and political rights—South Australia although small in population has always been a place where liberal moderate views and free thinking have been strong in the community, and has played a special place in the development of women's issues "a sense of conscious difference".Josephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-68223467274838649222017-12-10T10:21:09.424+11:002017-12-10T10:21:09.424+11:00bazza
the nations where women WERE given the vote...bazza<br /><br />the nations where women WERE given the vote early probably had more enthusiastic, progressive and modern women. But the rest of the world, where women were NOT given the vote for another 25 years or more, probably had more obstinate and regressive men.<br /><br />I remember seeing British cartoons opposing women's suffrage in the Edwardian era. They depicted politically active women as ugly, self-centred and too busy to care about their starving husbands and babies.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-53543409457720857752017-12-10T10:11:36.748+11:002017-12-10T10:11:36.748+11:00CherryPie
Thank you. I take my blog material from...CherryPie<br /><br />Thank you. I take my blog material from my lecture notes. That has two advantages: firstly I don't have to do a lot of re-writing and secondly the students tell me which topics are interesting and which are less interesting :)Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-89663194621924382482017-12-10T07:10:56.940+11:002017-12-10T07:10:56.940+11:00And in the UK women were not enfranchised until 19...And in the UK women were not enfranchised until 1918 and then only if 'householders' and over 30. It was another full decade before it became universal here. So: well done to those early forward-thinking women in New Zealand and South Australia. The pioneer spirit must have been strong in those days! I am loving the variety of topics that you post Hels.<br /><b><a href="http://todiscoverice.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow"> CLICK HERE for Bazza’s curious Blog ‘To Discover Ice’</a></b>bazzahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794010156639774028noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-49706014106039204712017-12-10T05:29:48.138+11:002017-12-10T05:29:48.138+11:00An interesting history, thank you :-)An interesting history, thank you :-)CherryPiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11788084724907992076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-46322183911410400472017-12-09T21:21:03.119+11:002017-12-09T21:21:03.119+11:00Leon
In the 1960s we thought that women had achie...Leon<br /><br />In the 1960s we thought that women had achieved total equality. We kept our own maiden names, worked with equal pay and equal superannuation, got reliable contraception etc. Yet sexual abusers like Mr Weinstein and Mr Burke have shown that women are still far from equal.<br /><br />Thank you, Vida Golstein and Mary Lee. Keep on inspiring us 120 years later.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-46207600752635292082017-12-09T21:08:12.702+11:002017-12-09T21:08:12.702+11:00Deb
There were suffragette societies in every col...Deb<br /><br />There were suffragette societies in every colony/later state, but South Australia seemed to have better organised and better supported communities. For example the Women's Christian Temperance Union of South Australia was totally committed to both temperance and women's suffrage. The petitions to the S.A parliament were huge, and could not be ignored.Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-82815348881313916952017-12-09T20:58:13.447+11:002017-12-09T20:58:13.447+11:00Andrew
That is such a good point. We are only rem...Andrew<br /><br />That is such a good point. We are only removed from non rights for women by two generations. In the history of the world, two generations is nothing.<br /><br />My grandmother was born in 1903, 14 years before Russian women were given the vote. They had cinema, cars and type writers, years before they got the vote :(Helshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02849907428208235392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-49436290904156894192017-12-09T17:06:05.410+11:002017-12-09T17:06:05.410+11:00To Deb: Although I'm from Victoria, I've a...To Deb: Although I'm from Victoria, I've always thought of SA being very progressive, particularly during Don Dustan's time.<br />A very enjoyable and informative read Hels.Leon Simshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17609891995057827081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-51714030651484654092017-12-09T11:34:17.291+11:002017-12-09T11:34:17.291+11:00Why was South Australia so progressive?Why was South Australia so progressive?Debnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3067098918914268503.post-73536317528633811282017-12-09T09:09:38.289+11:002017-12-09T09:09:38.289+11:00Well done to New Zealand and not so much later, Au...Well done to New Zealand and not so much later, Australia. It just occurred to me that when my grandmother was born, she never had the right to vote. It wasn't really that long ago.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com