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I have made substantial revisions of this article. I have replaced a number of unsourced editorial comments and other information with sourced information. I have summarised information on the White Australia policy in order to better focus the article on the Act itself. I have provided a link to the main article on the White Australia policy where the details of this policy can be found. I have changed the headings to better reflect the contents of the article. I have also reduced repetitious information and moved some information to a more logical place. I have edited the lead to make it a more concise summary of the key points of the article. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 01:54, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Female suffrage

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I have removed the following statement because it appears to be a dubious editorial comment and is not supported by the cited sources. "The Act meant that, though the Colony of New Zealand had granted women universal suffrage in 1893 and this carried forward to New Zealand subsequently becoming an independent nation in 1907, Australia was the first independent country to grant 'white' women's suffrage at a national level, and the first country to allow women to stand for Parliament." There is no doubt that New Zealand introduced female suffrage before Australia. The question of when New Zealand and Australia became "independent countries" is debatable. In 1902 Australia was far from an independent country. Australians were British subjects and Britain ran Australia's foreign policy and defence. Australia was a self-governing member of the British Empire, and probably didn't become a fully independent nation until WWII. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 03:49, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Tollefsen et al and Swain et al are not used as sources for the claim about women's suffrage, but about the disqualification of the indigenous and several other groups. This edit moves the sources from the right sentence to a wrong one.[1] Thenightaway (talk) 10:20, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. I can't see any source for the claim that Australia was the first independent country to introduce women's suffrage so I have removed it. I can restore Tollefsen et al and Swain as sources about the racial exclusions, but that statement is already well sourced in the article and not at all controversial. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 12:31, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]