{"product_id":"2940016295879","title":"Woman's Place in the Commonwealth","description":"SIXTY years ago, a little barque sailed from Greenock, in Scotland, to Australia. Of the 180 passengers, some landed at Adelaide, some at Melbourne, and the rest at Sydney. I believe that many rose to wealth and position. In South Australia two were members of Ministries, and of these one was long President of the Legislative Council.\u003cbr\u003eIt was my good fortune to land at Adelaide, in the province where women have taken a larger share in public affairs than in any other colony in the island continent, and it has consequently been my privilege to aid in building up a Federated Commonwealth.\u003cbr\u003eI was even bold enough to stand as a candidate for the Federal Convention. South Australia had been the first community to give the municipal vote to women rate-payers, and in 1894 it had admitted women to full rights of political citizenship, so that there might well have been one representative woman among her ten delegates. It was also a good advertisement for the electoral reform which I have advocated by pen and voice for forty years if I stood or fell on the single issue of Effective Voting for Federated Australia. I need not say that I was not elected by the Block vote. It is not easy to get new blood or new ideas into any Parliament by that discredited method.","brand":"WDS Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146652729584,"sku":"2940016295879","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940016295879_p0.jpg?v=1763632484","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940016295879","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}