The Queensland Women's Electoral League (QWEL) was an organisation founded in 1903 in

Brisbane Brisbane ( ; ) is the List of Australian capital cities, capital and largest city of the States and territories of Australia, state of Queensland and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia, with a ...

to advance the cause of

women's suffrage Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...

Queensland Queensland ( , commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a States and territories of Australia, state in northeastern Australia, and is the second-largest and third-most populous state in Australia. It is bordered by the Northern Territory, South Austr ...

, Australia.

History

Its founder and first president was Christina Jane Corrie (then the Lady Mayoress of Brisbane, her husband

Leslie Corrie Leslie Gordon Corrie (1859–1918) was an architect and the List of Mayors and Lord Mayors of Brisbane, mayor of Brisbane, Queensland from 1902 to 1903. A number of his architectural works are now heritage-listed. Early life Leslie Gordon Corri ...

being mayor). Margaret Ogg was a prominent and long-time member of the organisation. In 1908, the League created the Brisbane Women's Club, one of Brisbane's first clubs for women.

References

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