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Treborlang
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1894 - Women Fight For The VoteBy eighteen eighty drunkennessHad become all epidemic, The issue of male self-control Was now purely academic. Some women thought the only way To stop degeneration Was to bung men in their place And cease their veneration. They wanted females to have the vote To ban the sale of liquor, And undertook a loud campaign Australia to transfigure. The Women's Temperance Union As was their designation Was received both with approval And with moral indignation. 'Do no trust them, it's a trick!' Cried some housewives with suspicion, They were the ones who knew that men Took delight in their condition. But there were those who thought it good, The Women's League of Suffrage, Reformer Rose Scott in the lead, Cared not if men took umbrage. The fight soon spread to all the States, Where seen by politicians, As means to increase the number of votes Against determined Oppositions. But it was not till one hot night In eighteen ninety-four, That in Adelaide's Parliament The legislation hit the floor. The opposition counting numbers even An old man suddenly came afore, And thus the act conferring women The right to vote became the law. Ten years more it took the right To vote to spread across the land, And even then no one believed That any woman would want to stand. So it was not for twenty years That a woman won a ballot, The one who did was Edith Cowan, A truly Western Australian zealot. It then took another twenty, And a World War full of terror, To elect the great Enid Lyons To a rep seat in Canberra. What a concept! What an idea! What does one do? Despair? Lament? Forty years to place a woman In the Federal Parliament!
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