Queensland Women's Electoral League. (1903-)

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Woman Suffrage Organisation
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http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-766051

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The Queensland Women’s Electoral League (QWEL) was an organisation formed in the last stages of the campaign to obtain woman suffrage for white women in Queensland. While the league claimed to have all women’s interests at heart, and that it was to be apolitical, it was very much a liberal-conservative organisation. Although its stated aims included the desire to ‘advance political knowledge among women’, they also included the desire to ‘encourage and preserve private enterprise, and to combat unnecessary interference by the State’. Labor women who attended the QWEL launch in 1903 left once the political agenda became obvious. They went on to form the Women Workers’ Political Organisation in opposition. The Women’s Christian Temperance Organisation, in response to this political wrangling, called upon its own members to avoid ‘the venom of party politics’ and concentrate on the task at hand.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. Women in Australia : an annotated guide to records
    Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary, Picot, Anne and National Research Program (Australia)
    [1977]
    Published: Australian Government Publishing Service
  2. Proud to be a rebel : the life and times of Emma Miller
    Young, Pam, 1926-
    [1991]
    Published: University of Queensland Press
  3. Votes for women : the Australian story
    Lees, Kirsten.
    [1995]
    Published: Allen & Unwin
  4. John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland: Queensland Women's Electoral League (1903 - 1967)
    This collection consists of records of the Queensland Women's Electoral League including correspondence, minutes, photographs, accounts.
    OM71-47: Box 8804 to 8808
  5. John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland: Finding aid to the Queensland Women’s Electoral League Records (1903 - 1967)
    This collection consists of records of the Queensland Women's Electoral League including correspondence, minutes, photographs, accounts
    OM71-47: Boxes 8804-8808
  6. John Oxley Library, Manuscripts and Business Records Collection, State Library of Queensland: Margaret Ogg Fund: List of names for appeal letters: 1953 (1953 - )
    This item is a list of names and addresses of women to whom letters were sent soliciting donations for the Margaret Ogg Memorial Fund. In the left hand margin are noted sums donated by the woman whose name appears on the right, or other notes, such as 'deceased', explaining a non-donation. The Fund was established at the Jubilee Celebration of the League to recognise Margaret Ogg's outstanding service. Money raised was used to assist women seeking election at local, state or federal level, and successful candidates were to repay the donation to benefit other women. Candidates assisted by this fund included Senator Annabelle Rankin, Senator Kathy Martin, Mrs Petronel White and Mrs Warner (the latter two ladies to Council).
    OM71-47/25: Box 8807

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