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"It's not by strategy or stealth [that Australian women won suffrage.] It's actually by accident.” Clare Wright, historian, La Trobe University, Australia To start from the beginning: In the late 1800s, women around the world were organizing for voting rights. The first breakthrough came in the British colony of New Zealand. Women there won the vote through a combination of petition drives and male allies in leadership. Their success inspired one of the neighboring colonies in Australia to also introduce a suffrage bill. A conservative lawmaker tried to squash it by expanding it to give women the right to hold office. “He thinks that this is what will sink the bill, because nobody is asking for that,” Wright said. But he was wrong — the plan failed. In 1894, the bill passed, giving women an opening to fight for much more. The colonies were in the process of coming together to create Australia, and South Australia’s representatives insisted they would join the new country only if women kept their voting rights. “So, effectively, women's suffrage is made the precondition to a federated Australia, to this whole process of nation building,” Wright said. Source: theworld.org/stories/2019-12-17/remembering-australia-s-r...

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Odds are that this is the Republican Convention of 1912, which was held at the Chicago Convention Hall. Note the Texas and Illinois delegation signs in the lower left.

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Odds are that this is not the Republican Convention. In 1912, both the Republican and Bull Moose (Progressive Party) conventions were held at the same Chicago Convention Hall. Both conventions had delegates from various states. Roosevelt attended both conventions, but he was humiliated at the GOP gathering and lionized later at the Bull Moose conclave. Although women did not yet have the vote, they were included in the councils of the Progressive Party. The presence of several women delegates in this photo makes it likely that this is the "Bull Moose" convention.

I was in high school in Ft. Lauderdale back then! Wow! GO TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!