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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorne.

In 1902, Australia became the first country to grant some women for political equality.

And that's the subject of today's conversation with historian Claire Wright.

Claire's new book, You Daughters of Freedom, chronicles the pioneering fight for women's suffrage in Australia, and also looks at how, once the vote was won, some women

turned to Britain to help further the cause of those they called, quote, their less fortunate British

sisters. Our deputy digital editor, Eleanor Evans, met up with Claire in London to find out more.

Your book looks at the Australian women who were both involved very much in this British fight, and in fact their own fight for women's suffrage, which gave, I've got to get this right, gave some women full political equality in 1902,

so many, many years before some British women were given that vote.

So could we perhaps just start by discussing what brought you to this aspect of the suffrage fight?

Well, I'm an historian by trade, an associate professor of history at La Trobe University and my interest is in democracy.

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