List of Australian suffragists explained

This is a list of Australian suffragists who were born in Australia or whose lives and works are closely associated with that country.

Suffragists

• Annette Bear-Crawford (1853–1899) – women's suffragist and federationist in Victoria
• Belle Theresa Golding (1864–1940) – feminist, suffragist and labor activist
• Catherine Helen Spence (1825–1910) – author, teacher, and journalist; commemorated on a special issue of the Australian five-dollar note
• Dora Meeson Coates (1869–1955) – artist, member of British Artists' Suffrage League
• Euphemia Bridges Bowes (1816–1900) – president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union from 1885 to 1892.^[1]
• Edith Cowan (1861–1932) – politician, social campaigner, first woman elected to an Australian parliament
• Eliza Ashton (1851/1852–1900) – journalist and founding member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales
• Elizabeth Brentnall (1830–1909) – Australian suffragist, temperance activist and philanthropist.
• Elizabeth Webb Nicholls (1850–1943) – campaigner for women's suffrage in South Australia
• Emma Miller (1839–1917) – pioneer trade union organiser, co-founder of the Women's Equal Franchise Association
• Fanny Furner (1864–1938) – activist, first women to stand for election in local government in Manly
• Henrietta Dugdale (1827–1918) – initiated the first female suffrage society in Australia
• Isabella Goldstein (1849–1916) – Australian suffragist and social reformer
• Jean Beadle (1868–1942) – suffragist who organised a union of female factory workers
• Jessie Rooke (1845–1906) – Tasmanian suffragist and temperance reformer
• Jessie Street (1889–1970) – feminist, human rights campaigner
• Kate Dwyer (1861–1949) – schoolteacher and Labor leader, member of the Womanhood Suffrage League of New South Wales
• Lilian Locke (1869–1950) – honorary secretary of the United Council for State Suffrage, political organiser, trade unionist and labor activist^[2]
• Louisa Lawson (1848–1920) – poet, writer, publisher, and feminist
• Maria Elizabeth Kirk (1855–1928) Temperance in UK and suffrage in Australia.
• Mary Colton (1822–1898) – president of the Women's Suffrage League from 1892 to 1895
• Mary Hynes Swanton (1861–1940) Australian women's rights and trade unionist
• Mary Lee (1821–1909) – suffragist and social reformer in South Australia
• Mary Anne Lockwood (1858–1938) - temperance worker and suffragist in South Australia
• Mary Windeyer (1836–1912) – women's suffrage campaigner in New South Wales
• May Jordan McConnel (1860–1929) – trade unionist and suffragist, member of the Women's Equal Franchise Association
• Maybanke Anderson (1845–1927) – promoter of women's and children's rights, campaigner for women's suffrage and federation
• Muriel Matters (1877–1969) – lecturer, journalist, educator, actress, elocutionist, member of the Women's Freedom League
• Rose Scott (1847–1925) – founder of the Women's Political Education League
• Rosetta Jane Birks (1856–1911) – social reformer, philanthropist and South Australian women's suffragist
• Serena Lake (1842–1902) – South Australian evangelical preacher, social reformer, campaigner for women's suffrage
• Vida Goldstein (1869–1949) – feminist politician, first woman in British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament

See also

• List of suffragists and suffragettes
• Timeline of women's suffrage
• Women's suffrage in Australia
• Suffrage in Australia

Notes and References

1. Book: Oldfield . Audrey . Audrey Oldfield . Woman Suffrage in Australia . 1992 . Cambridge University Press . 0521403804 . United Kingdom . 74,78 . registration.
2. Web site: Biography – Lilian Sophia Locke – Labour Australia . 2023-08-26 . labouraustralia.anu.edu.au.