Australian women’s rights activist Rose Scott was born October 8, 1847 in Glendon New South Wales Australia.
Social reformer and tireless advocate of women’s right to vote. 

In 1889 she helped form the Women’s Literary Society in Sydney and it was out of this society that the Womanhood Suffrage League developed in May 1891. She wrote and debated and lectured and argued until in 1902 the Women’s Suffrage Act became law in New South Wales. She lobbied for the establishment of Children’s Courts for juvenile offenders, for the ‘age of consent’ to be raised from fourteen to sixteen for girls (Crimes (Girls’ Protection) Acts 1910), and for a more comprehensive and equitable system of family maintenance to be established.
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National Council of Women – Rose Scott
Part of the Centenary of National Council of Women series
Issued by Australia’s post office in 1996
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