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Selina Siggins, the Glossary

Selina Sarah Elizabeth Siggins (née Charters, previously Anderson; 12 May 1878 – 30 November 1964) was an Australian political activist who became the first woman to stand for the Australian House of Representatives.^[1]

69 relations: Adelaide, Ashbury, New South Wales, Australian House of Representatives, Australian Labor Party, Australian labour movement, Australian Senate, Australian Turf Club, Bill Wilks, Canterbury Park Racecourse, Child benefit, Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902, Compulsory voting, Division of Calare, Division of Dalley, Division of East Sydney, Division of Robertson, Election deposit, Electoral district of Adelaide, Elizabeth Street, Sydney, Farmers' and Settlers' Association of New South Wales, Field of Mars Reserve, Free Trade Party, George Reid, Grey (New Zealand electorate), Grey District, Hill End, New South Wales, Immigration Restriction Act 1901, Instant-runoff voting, Jeanne Young, Labor Council of New South Wales, Leprosy, Maoriland Worker, Mary Moore-Bentley, National Anti-Sweating League, National Party of Australia, Nationalist Party (Australia), Nellie Martel, Neville Howse, New South Wales, New South Wales Labor Party, New Zealand Socialist Party, Old Parliament House, Canberra, Paddy Webb, Parliament of Australia, Parliament of South Australia, Proportional representation, Protectionist Party, Pyrmont, New South Wales, South Australian House of Assembly, South Island, ... Expand index (19 more) »
Anti-Chinese sentiment in Australia
Australian Labor Party officials
Australian anti-communists
Independent politicians in Australia
National Party of Australia politicians

Adelaide

Adelaide (Tarntanya) is the capital and most populous city of South Australia, and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The demonym Adelaidean is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide.

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Ashbury, New South Wales

Ashbury is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Australian House of Representatives

The Australian House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate.

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Australian Labor Party

The Australian Labor Party (ALP), also known simply as Labor or the Labor Party, is the major centre-left political party in Australia and one of two major parties in Australian politics, along with the centre-right Liberal Party of Australia.

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Australian labour movement

The Australian labour movement began in the early 19th century and since the late 19th century has included industrial (Australian unions) and political wings (Australian Labor Party).

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Australian Senate

The Australian Senate is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the lower house being the House of Representatives.

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Australian Turf Club

Australian Turf Club (ATC) owns and operates thoroughbred racing, events and hospitality venues across Sydney, Australia.

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Bill Wilks

William Henry Wilks (21 June 1863 – 5 February 1940) was an Australian politician.

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Canterbury Park Racecourse

Canterbury Park Racecourse is a racecourse for horse racing in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Child benefit

Child benefit or children's allowance is a social security payment which is distributed to the parents or guardians of children, teenagers and in some cases, young adults.

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Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902

The Commonwealth Franchise Act 1902 (Cth) was an Act of the Parliament of Australia which set out who was entitled to vote in Australian federal elections.

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Compulsory voting

Compulsory voting, also called universal civic duty voting or mandatory voting, is the requirement that registered voters participate in an election.

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Division of Calare

The Division of Calare is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.

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Division of Dalley

The Division of Dalley was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales.

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Division of East Sydney

The Division of East Sydney was an Australian Electoral Division in New South Wales.

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Division of Robertson

The Division of Robertson is an Australian electoral division in the state of New South Wales.

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Election deposit

In an electoral system, a deposit is the sum of money that a candidate for an elected office, such as a seat in a legislature, is required to pay to an electoral authority before they are permitted to stand for election.

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Electoral district of Adelaide

Adelaide is a single-member electoral district for the South Australian House of Assembly.

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Elizabeth Street, Sydney

Elizabeth Street is a major street in the central business district of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia.

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association of New South Wales

The Farmers' and Settlers' Association of New South Wales (F&S) was an umbrella organisation of farmers' and selectors' associations in New South Wales, founded in 1893.

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Field of Mars Reserve

The Field of Mars Reserve is a protected nature reserve located on the northern suburbs of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Free Trade Party

The Free Trade Party, officially known as the Free Trade and Liberal Association, and also referred to as the Revenue Tariff Party in some states, was an Australian political party, formally organised in 1887 in New South Wales, in time for the 1887 New South Wales colonial election, which the party won.

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George Reid

Sir George Houston Reid (25 February 1845 – 12 September 1918) was an Australian and British politician, diplomat and barrister who served as the fourth prime minister of Australia from 1904 to 1905.

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Grey (New Zealand electorate)

Grey, originally formed as Greymouth, is a former parliamentary electorate in the West Coast region of New Zealand.

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Grey District

Grey District is a district in the West Coast Region of New Zealand that covers Greymouth, Runanga, Blackball, Cobden, and settlements along the Grey River.

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Hill End, New South Wales

Hill End is a former gold mining town in New South Wales, Australia.

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Immigration Restriction Act 1901

The Immigration Restriction Act 1901 (Cth) was an Act of the Parliament of Australia which limited immigration to Australia and formed the basis of the White Australia policy which sought to exclude all non-Europeans from Australia.

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Instant-runoff voting

Instant-runoff voting (IRV), also known as ranked-choice voting or the alternative vote (AV), combines ranked voting (in which voters rank candidates rather than choosing only a single preferred candidate) together with a system for choosing winners from these rankings by repeatedly eliminating the candidate with the fewest first-place votes and reassigning their votes until only one candidate is left.

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Jeanne Young

Sarah Jane Young (known as Jeanne Forster Young; 1 July 1866 – 11 April 1955) was an Australian political reformer. Selina Siggins and Jeanne Young are Australian feminists.

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Labor Council of New South Wales

The Labor Council of New South Wales, branded Unions NSW, is the peak body for trade unions in the state of New South Wales, Australia.

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Leprosy

Leprosy, also known as Hansen's disease (HD), is a long-term infection by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis.

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Maoriland Worker

The Maoriland Worker, later called The Standard, was a leading New Zealand labour journal of the early 20th century.

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Mary Moore-Bentley

Mary Ann Moore-Bentley, also known as Mary Ling (6 January 1865 – 1 September 1953), was an Australian writer and parliamentary candidate.

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National Anti-Sweating League

The National Anti-Sweating League is the name adopted by two groups of social reformers in Australia and Britain at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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National Party of Australia

The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is a centre-right, agrarian political party in Australia.

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Nationalist Party (Australia)

The Nationalist Party, also known as the National Party, was an Australian political party.

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Nellie Martel

Ellen Alma Martel, (30 September 1855 – 11 August 1940) was an English-Australian suffragist and elocutionist. Selina Siggins and Nellie Martel are Australian feminists.

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Neville Howse

Major General Sir Neville Reginald Howse, (26 October 1863 – 19 September 1930) was an Australian Army officer, medical doctor, and politician.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New South Wales Labor Party

The New South Wales Labor Party, officially known as the Australian Labor Party (New South Wales Branch) and commonly referred to simply as NSW Labor, is the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

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New Zealand Socialist Party

The New Zealand Socialist Party was founded in 1901, promoting the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

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Old Parliament House, Canberra

Old Parliament House, formerly known as the Provisional Parliament House, was the seat of the Parliament of Australia from 1927 to 1988.

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Paddy Webb

Patrick Charles Webb (30 November 1884 – 23 March 1950) was a New Zealand trade unionist and politician.

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Parliament of Australia

The Parliament of Australia (officially the Parliament of the Commonwealth and also known as Federal Parliament) is the legislative body of the federal level of government of Australia.

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Parliament of South Australia

The Parliament of South Australia is the bicameral legislature of the Australian state of South Australia.

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Proportional representation

Proportional representation (PR) refers to any type of electoral system under which subgroups of an electorate are reflected proportionately in the elected body.

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Protectionist Party

The Protectionist Party, also known as the Protectionist Liberal Party or Liberal Protectionist Party, was an Australian political party, formally organised from 1887 until 1909, with policies centred on protectionism.

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Pyrmont, New South Wales

Pyrmont is an inner-city suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 2 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district in the local government area of the City of Sydney.

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South Australian House of Assembly

The House of Assembly, or lower house; Is one of the two chambers of the Parliament of South Australia.

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South Island

The South Island (Te Waipounamu, 'the waters of Greenstone', officially South Island or Te Waipounamu or historically New Munster) is the largest of the three major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island and sparsely populated Stewart Island.

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The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal

The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal, also published as The Bathurst Free Press, Bathurst Times, Bathurst Argus, Bathurst Daily Argus, Western Times and Western Advocate, was a semiweekly English language broadsheet newspaper published in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selina_Siggins

Also known as Selina Anderson, Selina Charters, Selina Sarah Anderson, Selina Sarah Charters, Selina Sarah Elizabeth Anderson, Selina Sarah Elizabeth Charters, Senie Anderson.

, The Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal, The Daily Telegraph (Sydney), The Evening News (Sydney), The Press, The Sydney Morning Herald, Thomas Lavelle, Vida Goldstein, Wellington, Wellington Times, Wellington, New South Wales, West Coast Region, William Johnson (Australian politician), 1903 Australian federal election, 1906 Australian federal election, 1907 New South Wales state election, 1910 Australian federal election, 1911 New Zealand general election, 1918 South Australian state election, 1922 Australian federal election.

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See also

Anti-Chinese sentiment in Australia

Australian Labor Party officials

Australian anti-communists

Independent politicians in Australia

National Party of Australia politicians

References