Timeline of women's suffrage liberty between 1718 and 1772. The Australian Commonwealth Franchise Act of 1902 enabled women to vote at federal elections and also permitted women to stand for election to the Australian Parliament, making the newly-federated country of Australia the first in the modern world to do so. In 1906, the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, which became the republic of Finland, was the second country in the world to implement both the right to vote and the right to run for office. Finland was also the first country in Europe to give women the right to vote. The world's first female
Give Your Vote participants, who will receive a text message with voting instructions on the eve of the election. On election day, they are asked to mark the respective party on their ballot paper. According to the project website, Give Your Vote aims to show that "the UK makes decisions about climate change, migration, poverty and war that directly affect millions around the world", while there is "no democratic means for those outside the UK to have a say in how these decisions are made." In response to the project, the BNP has called Egality a "Marxist organization" and accused it of being