Australia and New Zealand
Women's history in Australia and New Zealand - find resources for Australian and New Zealand women of note and events in women's history. If you find additional links you'd like to suggest be added to this page, send an email to womenshistory.guide@about.com.
Daisy Mae Bates
Daisy Mae Bates, born in Ireland, spent most of her adult life with the Aborigines of Australia, studying their condition and raising awareness of their plight.
Women Suffrage - New Zealand, Australia
An entry from a 1911 encyclopedia noting some then-recent events in New Zealand and Australia with women's voting rights.
Vivian Bullwinkel
Sole survivor of a World War II massacre of army nurses and a civilian on Bangka Island, and later a prisoner of war of the Japanese on Sumatra, she returned to a distinguished nursing career.
Vida Goldstein
From the Australian Dictionary of Biography, a description of the life of Vita Goldstein who campaigned for women's rights, birth control and peace.
Australia: Feminism
Bibliography with a few web links, plus information on Australian feminists Diane Bell, Elizabeth Grosz and Carole Pateman.
Equal Suffrage in Australia
1904 update on the legal equality of women in Australia. Document form the Library of Congress.
Sex, class and the road to women's suffrage
Tom O'Lincoln writes from a Marxist perspective on the influence of development on women's rights and opportunities between 1860 and 1890 in Australia.
Women and Government in Australia
Dr. Marian Sawer writes a history of women in parliament and other government offices in Australia. Includes charts and graphs and much detail.
Women in the Senate (Australia)
1999 article detailing the history of women in Australia's Senate.