WOMEN IN PARLIAMENT.
Before the session closed an amendment to the Legislative Council Reform Bill passed the Lower House to
allow women to be elected to the i pper House. An amendment to allow them to be elected members of the Lower House was defeated by a small majority. On the first amendment being sent back to the Legislative Council they agreed to allow women to be eligible tor the 1 pper House as soon as they arc declared eligible for election to Lower House. Will our White Ribbon women see that every candidate for Parliament is asked whether he is in favour of allowing women to be eligible for election to either or to both Houses of Parliament? The measure was strongly supported in the House, and we feci sure if women show they are in earnest to get this disability removed it will be done the first session of the new Parliament.
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White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 233, 18 November 1914, Page 8
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