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Classes Details


Classes Code:	22T321
Description:	Women in Politics
Frequency:	weekly
Tutor:	Margaret Reynolds
Type:	Long Course
Location:	Theatre
Start Date:	14/09/2022 Wed
Finish Date:	16/11/2022
Start Time:	10:00
Finish Time:	11:00
Number of weeks:	10
Maximum enrolments:	100
Number Enrolled:	25
Comments:	This course will detail the efforts of so many Australian women who led the way to ensure women’s voices were heard in the national parliament. Starting with 19th century pioneers like Louisa Lawson and Vida Goldstein and an active suffrage movement, Australia led the way in achieving the right to vote and the right to stand for parliament in 1901. Yet it was over forty years before Dame Enid Lyons (Tasmania) and Senator Dorothy Tangney (Western Australia) were the first women to be elected to the House of Representatives and the Senate. The course will introduce those women who led the way in each subsequent decade and consider the barriers that slowed the process of more equal representation. Finally the course will celebrate the most recent election result, which has finally brought historic numbers of women into the Australian Parliament.
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