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Women’s Suffrage League

Australian organization
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  • Catherine Helen Spence
    Catherine Helen Spence
    / Advocating for women’s right to vote and other social issues

    
vice president of the influential Women’s Suffrage League in South Australia, which was led by Mary Lee and Mary Colton, two key drivers of the women’s suffrage movement. The organization was instrumental to securing passage of the Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act in December 1894 in the South Australian Parliament;


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vice president of the influential Women’s Suffrage League in South Australia, which was led by Mary Lee and Mary Colton, two key drivers of the women’s suffrage movement. The organization was instrumental to securing passage of the Constitutional Amendment (Adult Suffrage) Act in December 1894 in the South Australian Parliament;


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