Australian History – Four Issues
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...changes in lifestyles and roles is most always the result of both direct and indirect forces. For example, in the case of women's rights, women across the world protested, lobbied and fought for the right to vote. Courageous individual women who banded together establishing groups to fight for the cause seemed to emerge in more than one nation at about the same time. The right to vote was won by those women who took up the cause personally but that right was also won indirectly because of what was happening in other countries. New Zealand gave voting rights to women in 1893, Australia in 1894 (Spooner, 2002).
The Australian women, and the men who joined them, to achieve this were labeled the "shrieking sisterhood" by the media (Spooner, 2002). Negative press did not stop them. On December 18, 1894, the Constitution Amendment Act was passed and this Act gave women both the right to vote as well as the right to stand for...
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