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Equal Suffrage in Australia, by Various

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Title: Political Equality Series, Vol. 1, No. 6. Equal Suffrage in Australia

Author: Various

Release Date: December 13, 2008 [EBook #27517]

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Equal Suffrage in Australia.

Lady Holder, the wife of Sir Frederick W. Holder, K. C. M. G., Speaker
of the House of Representatives of Federated Australia, contributed the
following article to the N. Y. Independent, of June 9, 1904. Lady Holder
has taken a leading part in philanthropic work in South Australia. She
says:

"The women of South Australia were placed in a position of political
equality with men several years ago. Accordingly, everybody has become
accustomed to the arrangement, and it seems perfectly natural. It has
not produced any marked effect on female character, or made any
particular difference to domestic life. Women are more interested in
public affairs than they used to be, and politicians deal more earnestly
with home and social questions, but no neglect of private duties on that
account can be laid to the women's charge. We are well supplied with
high-class newspapers, the same sources of information are open to women
as to men, and the questions that arise are not by any means beyond the
scope of their intelligence. At election meetings there is commonly a
good sprinkling of women voters in the audiences. It is said that their
presence tends to prevent disorderliness, and I have never heard of a
lady at any meeting being rudely treated.

"Voting, with us, is one of the simplest things in the world. When an
elector's mind is made