Issue Details: First known date: 2021... 2021 In Her Own Name: A History of Women in South Australia from 1836; Trailblazers : 100 Inspiring South Australian Women
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'South Australia is a state of firsts when it comes to women’s history. In 1881, the University of Adelaide was the first university in Australia to award women degrees and, in 1894, South Australia became the first Australian state to allow non-Indigenous women the right to vote. South Australian suffrage leader Catherine Helen Spence became the first federal woman political candidate in 1897, while in 1965 South Australian lawyer Roma Mitchell became the first woman appointed to a Supreme Court. These are but a few of the many pioneering women who have contributed to the state’s social, cultural and political landscape. However, in a quirk of history, South Australia remains the only Australian jurisdiction not to have had a woman leader. How might this anomaly be explained?' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Lilith no. 27 January 2021 23919761 2021 periodical issue 'This new decade began in a baptism of fire with environmental catastrophes in Australia, the Brazilian Amazon and on the west coast of the United States. Political crises took a foothold in global news and became a clarion call for institutional and societal change, as they demonstrated the inherent and devastating nature of white supremacy, white privilege and the continual impact of colonisation. The COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused the loss of millions of lives worldwide, has exposed systemic problems that have previously been ignored or deliberately obscured. The past year and a half has irrevocably transformed how we experience life and how we understand our place in it. ' (Publication summary)
     
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