7-687: The Australian Federation of Women Voters ( AFWV ) originally the Australian Womens Register in 1921 became the AFWV in 1924. Also known as The Australian Federation of Women's Societies for Equal Citizenship it was founded as a national lobby group in the interests of women's rights post suffrage. It was "...for three decades it was in the vanguard of the progressive women's movement in Australia." The federation had an official publication, entitled The Dawn , which had existed from 1918. Achievements of
14-476: A period in 1929 when Coralie Clarke Rees took over the reins, followed by Romola Teagle from 1930 to 1934. Ethel Payne, who was honorary secretary of the Australian Federation of Women Voters, took over briefly in 1935 while Rischbieth was overseas, and Dorothea Cass from 1939 while Rischbieth was on another overseas trip. Despite declining circulation, which had necessitated special fundraising, Dawn
21-650: The Federation included: First discussed at the triennial Woman's Christian Temperance Union national conference in Perth in 1918, the Federation was established straight after the next gathering in Melbourne in 1921. Bessie Rischbieth (Western Australia) was elected president and Elizabeth Nicholls (South Australia), Annie Carvosso (Queensland) and Mary Jamieson Williams (New South Wales) were elected vice-presidents. Later Presidents included social worker Amy Grace Wheaton who
28-630: The WSGWA and the Women's Non-Party Association of South Australia were the principal delegates and tri-ennially thereafter. The organization, which was also briefly known as the Australian Women's Federation for Equal Citizenship , became the Australian Federation of Women Voters in 1927, by which name it is best known. Bessie Rischbieth was manager and editor for most of the paper's history, apart from
35-509: Was President from 1951 to 1954. The Federation existed until 1974, and was largely superseded by the Women's Electoral Lobby in 1972. The Dawn (feminist newsletter) The Dawn was a monthly newsletter published in Western Australia in the early 20th century by Bessie Rischbieth as the official organ of that State's Women's Service Guilds , and later also of the Australian Federation of Women Voters . Dawn or The Dawn
42-511: Was established, Dawn became its newspaper also. The Australian Federation of Women's Societies, which had its origins as early as 1919 and affiliated with the International Women's Suffrage Alliance and British Dominions Women Citizens' Union , was a peak association of Australian non-political feminist organizations, which was founded at a national meeting in Melbourne in 1921 at which
49-477: Was founded in 1919 and edited by Bessie Rischbieth in Perth, Western Australia as the official organ of the Women's Service Guilds of Western Australia (WSGWA), an umbrella organization which brought together representatives of various Western Australian women's non-party (and non-Socialist) organizations. When the Australian Federation of Women's Societies , of which Rischbieth was a founder and its first president,
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