USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The first women candidates for the South Australia Assembly ran in 1918 general election, in Adelaide and Sturt. Western Australia granted voting rights to women in 1899, in time for women in the colony state voting in the first federal election.

Detailed explanation-2: -Women in South Australia gained the right to vote in 1894, and voted for the first time in the election of 1896. South Australia was the first colony in Australia and only the fourth place in the world where women gained the vote. South Australian women also gained the most liberal franchise.

Detailed explanation-3: -On 18 December 1894 the South Australian Parliament passed the Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act. The legislation was the result of a decade-long struggle to include women in the electoral process. It not only granted women in the colony the right to vote but allowed them to stand for parliament.

Detailed explanation-4: -First in the world Although a number of other territories enfranchised women before 1893, New Zealand can justly claim to be the first self-governing country to grant the vote to all adult women.

Detailed explanation-5: -How was suffrage for women won in South Australia? Women’s groups, such as the Women’s Suffrage League and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), campaigned to gain the vote for women as a way of gaining a political voice for a range of social values that many women felt were unrepresented in parliament.