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A WOMEN'S CHARTER FOR POLITICAL REFORM 2001

a charter for political equality for women and for good government for all Australian citizens

Written by Joan Bielski for Women into Politics  •  Edited by Barbara McGarity and Irina Dunn

Women Into Politics Inc:

A Coalition of Women's Organisations and Individuals including: Australian Federation of Business and Professional Women (NSW Division),

North Sydney NSW 2060

Email: wip@womenintopolitics.org.au
Web:    http://www.womenintopolitics.org.au

The time will come when men and women will wonder that they ever found it necessary to form a league to gain for women the right to choose those who make laws she must obey. It can be no more right or expedient for one half of our population to make laws for the other half than it would be right for the people north of the 34th parallel to legislate for those south of it.

Maybanke Wolstoneholme-Anderson, 6 May 1891, in her first speech in support of women's suffrage, quoted in Sex, suffrage and social reform, Jan Roberts, Hale & Iremonger 1993
 

A Women's Charter for Political Reform 2001:

a charter for political equality for women and good government for all Australian citizens

Published by:
Women Into Politics Inc
Sydney, Australia
June 2001
ISBN: 1 86408 682 3

Table of Contents
Introduction
The Women's Charter for Political Reform
Summary
The Women's Charter for Political Reform with Rationale:

      Political equality for women

      Regulating the influence of money in politics

      Changing the parliamentary system of remuneration and entitlements

      Changing the system of parliamentary representation

      The Bill of Rights Debate - its relevance to equality for women

      People's Conventions public participation in democracy
List of References
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