Vida Goldstein
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Vida Goldstein 🇦🇺

Vida Jane Mary Goldstein (Known as "Vida Goldstein")
Suffragist, Peace Crusader, Social Reformer, First Woman to Stand for National Parliament (1903)
Born 1869-04-13 🇦🇺 Portland, Victoria, Australia
Passed Away 1949-08-15 South Yarra, Melbourne, Australia
Lifespan 80 years old
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"Women must enter parliament not to copy the ways of men, but to humanize the laws that govern humanity."

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Pioneering Australian suffragist and peace campaigner who became in 1903 one of the first four women in the entire British Empire to stand for election to a national parliament.

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Vida Goldstein was born on April 13, 1869, in Portland, Victoria. Mentored by Annette Bear-Crawford, Goldstein organized the massive 1891 'Monster Petition' signed by 30,000 women demanding the right to vote in Victoria. In 1902, following the passage of the Commonwealth Franchise Act, she traveled to the United States to address the International Woman Suffrage Conference, meeting President Theodore Roosevelt.

In 1903, Goldstein made international history by standing as an independent candidate for the Australian Senate. Founder of the journal The Woman Voter and the Women's Peace Army, she led fearless protests against conscription and war profiteering during World War I.

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Buried at Springvale / Ashes scattered in St Kilda
Melbourne, Australia
GPS: -37.8680, 145.0020
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