As written about in the book ‘Post-War Australia to the 1970s’, women’s experiences in the past are essential to the telling of Australian history and the purpose of this online magazine is to show how the right to vote and the right to equal opportunity for employment and pay produced the most significant effects on improving women’s civil rights in Australia (Damousi, J, 2001). The right to vote has given women a “voice” and the right to equal opportunity for employment and pay has given women “choice” (Australian Suffragettes, 2010).
In Australia today, women have freedoms and opportunities their mothers never dreamed of as a result of the reforms achieved by feminists in the post-war period. In particular, progress has been achieved with regard to the right to vote and the right to equal opportunity for employment and pay. However, the history of women’s efforts to achieve equality and citizenship rights has often been described as ‘hidden history' (Damousi, J, 2001).
(Committed to Abolishing Inequality, [Photograph] 1969, Retrieved from <http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/committed-to-abolishing-inequality-20121010-27dcg.html>.