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Australian Womens' Suffrage

“A woman’s opinions are useless to her, she may suffer unjustly, she may be wronged, but she has no power to weightily petitions against man’s laws, no representatives to urge her views, her only method to produce release, redress, or change, is to ceaselessly agitate.” Quote from Louisa Lawson’s speech to the first meeting of the Dawn Club, which was published in The Dawn in 1889.

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