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 "keen to punish the prosperity of Britain". The Argentinian newspaper La Nación has written that "the idea of Give Your Vote is simple, attractive and captures the Zeitgeist of the global age to perfection". According to the Electoral Commission, there is nothing illegal about the project, as long as nobody is being paid for their vote. Give Your Vote Give Your Vote is a project by the campaigning group Egality that allows people in Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Ghana to participate in the 2010 UK general election. It was launched in the United Kingdom in March 2010 as a campaign for