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Women Get The Right To Vote - 1902 Australian women got the right to vote in 1902. Australian indigenous people got the right to vote in 1962. This follows federation, which happened on January 1, 1901. In 1902, the commonwealth of Australia passed the Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 which allowed women that weren't Indigenous Australians to vote in the next election. The first women to stand for the Senate were Vida Goldstein, Nellie Martel and Mary Ann Moore Bentley. The first group of people to fight for women's rights was formed by Henrietta Dugdale and Annie Lowe in 1884. By 1886, this group had almost 300 members, both women and men. Henrietta Dugdale and Annie Lowe are heros. They brought a nation back to their senses, and thanks to them, women today are equal to men.