Phew. Feck ! (as they say in Ireland).

Byron does his homework fairly thoroughly and has it all organised well. Such a lot of sound and well analysed material.

There was one small point very slightly wrong in the section on Voting:

Western Australia enfranchised women in 1901 (just before federation) and before the rest of Australia in order to get the right vote for WA to join the Federation which was about to come into being.

The other Colonies occupying various parts of Australia didn't have women voting, nor many men. One had to own property to vote.

There were many, many more men in WA owning property, as the city of Kalgoolie - the gold mine city and a tent-city at that- was almost wholly male and almost every man owned a small patch to mine on ! They outnumbered the voting men of Perth (the only other city in WA) where the sentiment for joining the Federation was split.

Kalgoorlie men didn't want control of their gold going East and would have prevented WA becoming part of the new Australia.

The Perth women, however saw the East as a the nearest shopping mecca!

The women's vote swung the decision to join the new Federation.

Of course with WA being the only one of the new States of the Federation with a women's franchise and so many ordinary working men having the right to vote, even if they lived in a tent, they could easily outvote even the most populous States in the East. So those States quickly enfranchised their women too along with the ordinary men.

Nothing to do with sex Equality.