USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Women in South Australia gained the right to vote in 1894, and voted for the first time in the election of 1896.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The 120th anniversary of women’s suffrage in Australia. Sunday 12 June 2022 marked 120 years since Australian women gained the right to vote in federal elections, following the passage of the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 (Franchise Act).

Detailed explanation-4: -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.

Detailed explanation-5: -The earliest suffrage victories were in the west. The territory of Wyoming granted women the vote in 1869. Then when Wyoming became a state in 1890, the new government was the first state to allow women to vote.