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Finding a Place in Parliament(ary History) w / Toti's Margaret Evans; October 29, 2019

Finding a Place in Parliament(ary History) w / Toti's Margaret Evans; October 29, 2019

Finding a Place in Parliament(ary History) w / Toti's Margaret Evans; October 29, 2019 Finding a Place in Parliament(ary History) w / Toti's Margaret Evans; October 29, 2019, 26.37 MB
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Hamilton group TOTI are calling for an ‘almost invisible’ piece of national history to be publicly acknowledged this week.

Today is the centenary of the 1919 Women’s Parliamentary Rights Act which for the first time allowed women to stand for election to the House of Representatives - to become MPs.

 

Oscar Perress was lucky enough to speak to TOTI’s Margaret Evans, who also happened to be Hamilton’s first female mayor, from 1989-98, about the legislation and its place in our past, present and future.