Talk:Women in the Australian Senate

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Women's franchise
I don't know if it's necessary to note this, but technically, as per various sections of the Constitution, women from South Australia and Western Australia were able to vote in the first election. As is said in the articles, they did gain the right to vote and stand federally from 1902 onwards, but some voted before then.--Cyberjunkie | Talk 05:32, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I have this technicality covered in another unfinished article in my sandbox :), but I'll add a note here too. Although women from WA and SA could vote in 1901, were they able to stand for election in 1901?--nixie 05:51, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Not that I know of :). AFAIK, the sections relate only to franchise. At that time, only South Australian women had the right to political candidacy anyways - the other states only granted it between 1915 and 1923.--Cyberjunkie | Talk 06:03, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

trivial?
Why not have a page called "list of senate members over 6 feet tall" or "under 60 kg senate members" It seems irrelivent to make a list of women senators, just as it would be irrelivent to make a list of all senators with brown eyes. I dont really understand why this page hasn't been requested for deletion yet and why there is no debate on its purpose, it seems very trivial... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ben 1220 (talk • contribs) 10:18, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

NPOV
Bolding women who served in ministries is okay, but why not highlight women who have been leaders of their respective parties? 203.206.162.25 (talk) 01:53, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

Heather Hill
Is there a case for mentioning Heather Hill? Although she never served in the Senate, she was elected, only to have her election deemed invalid on the basis of having UK citizenship at the time of her election. -- JackofOz (talk) 04:00, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Citizenship 7
properly reverted my edit re the citizenship 7 - in my enthusiasm I had used the dates for the last election. The consensus in relation to Culleton and Day was that the timelines should reflect the time they actually sat in the senate despite being ineligible. In my view Nash & Waters should reflect 2017 being when they actually ceased to sit in the Senate. Find bruce (talk) 10:04, 27 October 2017 (UTC)
 * Just to clarify - this is not consensus but cold hard fact. So, as you say, 2017 term endings are the only option. Frickeg (talk) 12:53, 27 October 2017 (UTC)

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