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Vida Goldstein (1869-1949)
In 1902, she represented Australia at the International Women's Suffrage Conference in Washington and spoke at women's rights meetings across America.Vida stood for the Senate in 1903, and thereby became the first woman in the British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament. She did not win, but her campaign received significant press attention. Vida began the Woman Voter magazine in 1909 and later raised eyebrows by printing articles on venereal disease and sex crimes, subjects not then considered 'respectable'. In 1911, she travelled to England to assist Emily Pankhurst's suffragetes in their confrontational struggles with the anti-feminist laws of the day. Vida's anti-war stance during World War 1 alienated many of her sympathisers, however, in later life, she found meaning and consolation as a committed Christian Socialist. The electorate of Goldstein was named after her in 1984.
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