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Australia In 1901 Comparision 2008 Life in Australia in 1901 and now There are many ways in which Australian life in 1901 was different to life in Australia today.
Submitted by dmorkel on May 10, 2008
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Life in Australia in 1901 and now
There are many ways in which Australian life in 1901 was different to life in Australia today. Some of the areas differences include: politics, families and their structure, gender inequality, education and health. These are some of the social, political and cultural areas that have developed significantly in the last 100 years.
1901 was a year of great reform in Australian politics, with the introduction of the federal government system. Many acts of parliament in the last hundred years have caused huge changes to life now compared with life in 1901 especially in the areas of Industrial Relations, Indigenous People and Occupational Health & Safety. However, since that time some things have not changed, there are still 2 houses of parliament, they hold sessions in Canberra and the parties have the same basic make up that they did in 1901. We now have a much more developed set of laws created from acts of Parliament than existed 100 years ago.
There were no women in parliament at federation, but this was soon to change as changes to women’s rights started to happen. 1902 was the year that women were awarded the right to vote in federal elections. However, there were no women in parliament at state or federal levels until 1925. According to the Office for Women, in 2001 there were 55 women in federal parliament with similar proportional numbers in state and local governments.
As in politics, gender inequality was common in all walks of life in 1901, but despite the changes that have occured since then it is still a major issue of concern in today’s society. In 1901, it was considered the women’s role in the family to stay at home and tend to the children while the males went out to work. As much as our society today believes that women and men should be equal, this is sadly not the case. Men still fill certain roles fitting with a stereotype, and women are subject...
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