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| | Women's Suffrage : Women & Politics in South Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | A long account of the events of the day 'How The Women Voted' appeared in the weekly Adelaide newspaper The Observer on 2 May 1896, page 41, and included the names of the first female voters in eleven near-city electorates. |
 | | Even the nuns exercised the franchise, and at North Adelaide the sisters of the Dominican Convent created a picturesque feature in the proceedings by filing solemnly into the Temperance Hall, led by the Mother Superior, dressed in their distinctive garb, grave, kindly, and silent. |
 | | The ladies, regaled in their Sunday best, rolled up in large numbers, many arriving in cabs, while others were content to come on foot. |
| www.slsa.sa.gov.au /women_and_politics/suffr3.htm (1196 words) |
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