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		<title>President Obama Celebrates Women&#8217;s History Month in the White House&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/03/24/president-obama-celebrates-womens-history-month-in-the-white-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:49:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ President Obama highlighted the changes seen in the past century: When I look around this room, it is hard to believe that 100 years ago this month, thousands of women were marching right outside this house demanding one of our &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/03/24/president-obama-celebrates-womens-history-month-in-the-white-house/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=3032&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Queensland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; In Queensland the path to federation was somewhat different to that of other states. For Queensland women, the question of Federation and the drafting of a constitution were secondary to the matter of achieving suffrage. Indeed, there were no &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/28/queensland/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=2614&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Northern Territory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Northern Territory Women In 2013 Canberra celebrates its centenary with a year-long program of new and exciting projects. The Canberra-based Australian Women&#8217;s History Forum will celebrate the month of March, including International Women’s Day on 8 March, by drawing attention &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/28/northern-territory/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=2611&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tasmania</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jessie Spinks Rooke (1845-1906) Jessie Rooke was a Tasmanian suffragist and temperance reformer. Her story demonstrates the strong influence of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union in campaigning for votes for women. According to Vicki Pearce, &#8220;Jessie Rooke was one of &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/28/tasmania/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=2607&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>South Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CATHERINE HELEN SPENCE  1825-1910 An Eminent Federalist and Political Pioneer In 1902, a leading Australian publisher honoured Catherine Helen Spence for her contribution to the creation of the Australian Constitution in a series called &#8216;Eminent Federalists&#8217;.  Spence had sought election &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/28/south-australia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=2601&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Victoria</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vida Jane Goldstein (1869–1949) Victoria was the first of Australia’s colonies to organise for women’s suffrage – and the last to gain the vote. Without the right to elect their parliamentarians, Victorian women were unable to vote on Federation in &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/28/victoria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=2617&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Western Australia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 09:59:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two organisations focussed on women’s suffrage and federation were created in Western Australia in the early 1890s.  The first was the international Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) formed to foster &#8216;Social purity, total abstinence, and womanhood suffrage&#8217;.  The second was &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/28/western-australia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=2598&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s History Month event at State Library of South Australia</title>
		<link>http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/28/womens-history-month-event-at-state-library-of-south-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 03:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SA Life Finding Founding Mothers March 18 @ 6pm, State Library of SA In the State Library of South Australia’s historic Institute building, hear about SA leading light Catherine Helen Spence from her biographer, Professor Susan Magarey.  Learn about her &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/28/womens-history-month-event-at-state-library-of-south-australia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=2585&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Women Making History</title>
		<link>http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/20/women-making-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 03:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women Making History: Writers, Thinkers, Makers, Icons 1700–1900. Tuesday 12 March to Wednesday 19 June 2013 An exhibition at The Johnston Collection, In Melbourne, of interest&#8230; this includes examples of literature, garments and artefacts associated with the early stages of &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/20/women-making-history/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=2563&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New South Wales</title>
		<link>http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/19/new-south-wales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although women in the latter half of the nineteenth century were prevented from equal participation in parliamentary politics, many were active in pursuing educational, social and political reform. Their efforts seriously hampered by their inferior legal status, particularly their lack &#8230; <a href="http://womenshistory.net.au/2013/02/19/new-south-wales/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=womenshistory.net.au&#038;blog=11480227&#038;post=2609&#038;subd=awhf&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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