Inventions from Down Under

.... say nothing of the Hills Hoist, BBB! A terrific rotating clothesline which dries the washing like nobody's business! I'd never be without one! :wink:

The hills hoist scarred me for life.
The scarring wasnt from me mum constantly yelling at me not to swing on it, it was from letting go at 30mph and landing in the rose bushes near the chook shed.

The hills hoist scarred me for life.

The scarring wasnt from me mum constantly yelling at me not to swing on it, it was from letting go at 30mph and landing in the rose bushes near the chook shed.

First Place in the world to give women the vote. (1894)

Making the world's first notepad.

The flagpole at Parliament house in Canberra is the largest aluminium object in the world.

First Place in the world to give women the vote. (1894)

BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

First Place in the world to give women the vote. (1894)

Not true - Australia did not exist as a political entity until 1901....

Wow. Australia really has an impressive list of accomplishments. Well done.

And then there's vegemite.

Equus wrote:

Wow. Australia really has an impressive list of accomplishments. Well done.

And then there's vegemite.

Americans need lessons in vegemite consumption. They try to eat it like peanut butter, and that's just gross!

BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:

First Place in the world to give women the vote. (1894)

Not true - Australia did not exist as a political entity until 1901.

The first women's suffrage (with the same property qualifications as for men) was granted in New Jersey by the state constitution of 1776 (the word "inhabitants" was used without qualification of sex or race). Since married women did not own property in their own right, only unmarried women and widows qualified. New Jersey women lost the vote in 1807, when the franchise was restricted to white males (partly in order to combat electoral fraud by simplifying the conditions for eligibility). The Pitcairn Islands granted women's suffrage in 1838. Various countries and states granted restricted women's suffrage in the latter half of the nineteenth century, starting with South Australia in 1861. The 1871 Paris Commune granted voting rights to women, but they were taken away with the fall of the Commune and would only be granted again in July 1944 by Charles de Gaulle.

The first unrestricted women's suffrage in terms of voting rights (women were not initially permitted to stand for election) in a self-governing country was granted in New Zealand. Following a movement led by Kate Sheppard, the women's suffrage bill was adopted mere weeks before the general election of 1893.

The first to grant universal suffrage and allow women to stand for parliament was South Australia, in 1894. The Commonwealth of Australia provided this for women in Federal elections from 1902 (except Aboriginal women). The first major European country to introduce women's suffrage was Finland, where women were granted the right both to vote (universal and equal suffrage) and to stand for election in 1905. The world's first female members of parliament were also in Finland, when on 23 May 1906, 19 women took up their places in the Parliament of Finland as a result of the 1905 parliamentary elections. In 1886 the small island kingdom of Tavolara became a republic and was the first country to introduce universal suffrage in its presidential elections.[1] However, in 1895 the monarchy was reinstated, and the kingdom was subsequently annexed by Italy.

American women were pioneers in the women's suffrage cause, advocating votes for women from the 1820s. Some early victories were had in the territories of Wyoming (1869) and Utah (1870), although Utah women were disenfranchised by the U.S. Congress in 1887. The push to grant Utah women's suffrage was at least partially fueled by outsiders' belief that, given the right to vote, Utah women would get rid of polygamy. It was only after Utah women exercised their suffrage rights in favor of polygamy that the U.S. Congress disenfranchised Utah women.


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Lance de Mole)

Sounds more like a procedure for melanoma to me.