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The Miles Franklin Literary Award - Australia's Culture Portal

The annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most illustrious events on the Australian literary calendar. The award, now worth $42,000, was bequeathed by the will of Australian novelist, Miles Franklin for a 'published novel or play portraying A...

Australian suffragettes - Australia's Culture Portal

The South Australia's Women's Suffrage Centenary celebrations, 1994. Commonwealth women's suffrage in Australia reflected the rights of women to seek election in South Australia and to vote in Western Australia, rights granted in 1895 and 1899 respective...

Women in politics - Australia's Culture Portal

This reflected the rights of women to vote and seek election in South Australia and to vote in Western Australia, rights granted in 1895 and 1899 respectively. Indigenous women were not granted suffrage in federal elections until 1962, although Aborigina...

Women in wartime - Australia's Culture Portal

Image courtesy of the Australian War Memorial. The involvement of Australian women in each war is closely connected to their role in society at different times, and the nature of each war. Australia has been involved in a number of wars including The Boer...

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Ergo online learning project, State Library of Victoria   (website State Library of Victoria (SLV) )

Victorian women's political rights didn't come without a struggle, and leading the battle was a woman called Vida Goldstein. One of the leading advocates for women's rights in Victoria was Melbourne-born suffragist Vida Goldstein. Throughout the late 1800...

Vida Goldstein correspondence - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

I. Copy of letter to Secretary of State for the Colonies asking permission to resign as Gov. Gen., January 1908. Also draft MS document (in handwriting of H.H. Share, Private Secretary) requesting Royal permission to resign. Correspondents include Lord ...

Book - The Life and work of Miss Vida Goldstein - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne The Life and work of Miss Vida Goldstein Australasian Authors' Agency, Melbourne, ca. ...

Book Section - The lady politician: Vida Goldstein's first Senate campaign - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne The lady politician: Vida Goldstein's first Senate campaign Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 1996, p. ...

Book - That dangerous and persuasive woman : Vida Goldstein - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Melbourne University Press, Carlton, Vic. Women's Political Association of Victoria (1903 - 1919)...

Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to her (Vida Goldstein's) candidature for the Federal Senate in 1903 - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Collection of newspaper cuttings relating to her (Vida Goldstein's) candidature for the Federal Senate in 1903 Women's Political Associat...

Letter from Corbett Ashley to a Mr White re Vida Goldstein - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Notes on pottery in Canberra, letter from Corbett Ashley to a Mr White re Vida Goldstein, and one folder of material containing: Canberra...

Resource Section - Vida Goldstein of Komein Pine Grove Malvern - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne 1891 Women's Suffrage Petition, with Public Record Office Victoria, Public Record Office Victoria, 2008, http://wiki.prov.vic.gov.au/inde...

Vida Goldstein Correspondence - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

A further set of correspondence written to R. S. Ross and the Victorian Socialist Party, includes letters from C. J. Cough, Maurice Blackburn, W. Maloney, James Mathews, John Mullan, Frank Brennan, "Jack" Curtin, Charles Gray, Cecilia John, Vida Goldstein...

Journal Article - 'When lovely woman stoops to lobby': Vida Goldstein's attempt to win candidature for the Federal Senate in 1903 - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne 'When lovely woman stoops to lobby': Vida Goldstein's attempt to win candidature for the Federal Senate in 1903 nos 7-8, 1988, pp. ...

Biographical cuttings on Vida Goldstein - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne National Library of Australia Newspaper Microcopy Reading Room Women's Political Association of Victoria (1903 - 1919)...

Vida Goldstein 1869-1949. - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Biographical notes by her niece. Two copies both signed, one dated 19 Jan. 1966, the other 27 Jan. 1966....

Journal Article - Vida Goldstein and the English militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Vida Goldstein and the English militant campaign of the Women's Social and Political Union &copy Copyright The Australian Women's Registe...

Audiovisual material - Vida Goldstein 1869-1949 [slide] - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne 24 slides : 1 col. & b&w + 1 sound cassette (18 min.) &copy Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...

Book Section - Vida Goldstein and the struggle for women's rights - The Australian Women's Register   (website Australian Women's Archive Project )

An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Vida Goldstein and the struggle for women's rights &copy Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...

Australian War Memorial - Forging The Nation - Vida Goldstein   (website Australian War Memorial (AWM) )

Introduced into the fight for women's suffrage by her mother, Vida Goldstein took an early interest in politics. Throughout the war she was an ardent pacifist, became chairman of the Peace Alliance and formed the Women's Peace Army. <br/> Adela Pankhurs...