Suffragette Group

This year is your year 🔥

This year is our year 💪🏽

✨ Introducing Lou Nicholson ✨

With a background spanning health and science, sustainability, community advocacy and small business, Lou is creating a grassroots movement for change in the seat of Finniss.

As a passionate local, Lou is all about putting her community - its people and environment - to the front.

If elected, Lou is committed to being an independent voice in the State Parliament.

Throughout her campaign and beyond, she's committed to engaging and consulting with other locals to truly represent their views and achieve the outcomes they deserve.

Finniss to the front? We couldn’t agree more. Go get ‘em!

You picking up what Lou is putting down?

👉🏽 Like her page: Finniss To The Front

👉🏾 Follow her on the 'gram: lou_nicholson_

👉🏻 And, finally, hop on her website, subscribe and keep tabs on her exciting campaign: www.finnisstothefront.com

"Finniss to the front", says independent candidate Lou Nicholson "Finniss to the Front" is the campaign slogan of newly announced independent candidate Lou Nicholson, who has thrown her hat in the ring ahead of the the 2022 state election.

Time for a Monday reality check.

Currently, only 27 per cent of City of Adelaide councillors are women.

And, across the city’s 178-year history, only three women have served as Lord Mayor.

Yep. Deep breaths, everyone.

Let's change that.

We spy a huge opportunity for you to shake up the game.

City of Adelaide will hold a supplementary election to fill an area councillor vacancy on Monday 26 July.

Nominations open on Thursday 27 May 2021.

If you’re a current resident, business or property owner – and are current registered to vote in the City of Adelaide area – you can nominate. And, looking at those numbers, the more women who run, the better!

Need some inspo? Check out the incredible work of women across the border in New South Wales 👇👇🏾

Women pushed to run in local elections | Sky News Australia The New South Wales local government elections are fast approaching and state leaders are hoping more women will throw their hat in the ring. In the state, women make up just 30 per cent of those in council. More than 100 councils across NSW will hold elections on Saturday, September 4.

Since our launch, we’ve spoken to incredible, smart, switched-on women, who would make brilliant representatives in our Parliament.

Except they've ruled out a political career based on one Facebook post when they were 14.

Or one photo they're not entirely proud of.

Or one mistake they've made.

As we like to say at Suffragette, pop a lantern on the (perceived) problem. Knowing and owning your experiences takes the heat out of them.

Trust us, as we've seen recently, men have no such concerns about themselves... 😒

A must read 👇🏽

Women are scared to enter politics because of their past. I was one of them | Georgie Purcell Almost 10 years ago, I worked as a topless waitress. I never realised the profound impact those few months would have on my entire life

Ready to smash the political patriarchy?

Come at us, 2021.

What a rollercoaster. There is no doubt that it’s been a nervous and challenging time for South Australians.

While we’ve all been social distanced and donning our favourite masks, Suffragette Group has been busy behind the scenes.

In a few short weeks since our digital launch, the response has been huge.

We’re working through our emails and buzzing from many, many coffees. If you’re yet to hear from us, we’ll be in touch real soon. We got you girl.

We’re also putting together some exciting projects that would make the patriarchy weep.

In 2021, you can expect:

👉🏿 Vote for The Cocktail Party: In early 2021, Suffragette Group will be officially launched. Keep your eyes peeled for an opportunity to register your interest and come celebrate with us! 🥂

👉🏼 Campaign Ready: Time to switch gears. We’ll be in campaign mode ahead of three elections in 2022. We’re here for all your preselection strategy, campaign advice and those zero-bullsh*t pep talks

👉🏻 Discussion! Canapes! Activism! We’ll be offering opportunities to chat with some seriously powerful women in politics and discover how you can make a difference – both on and off the ballot. Subscribe to our newsletter and be the first to know

There has never been a more important time to change up the political game. Let’s do this ✌🏽

A gentle reminder that we're smashing political power structures and talking women's representation in this edition of Citymag

Grab a copy and enjoy a Friday knock-off with your favourite girl gang (ahem, that's us 🙋🏽‍♀️💁🏼‍♀️)

"Few within the Liberal Party will openly talk about the "woman problem", fearing they'll be labelled a feminist, or worse, risk getting their pre-selectors' noses out of joint"

📢 REAL TALK 📢

You can be a Liberal woman AND a feminist. You can Labor woman AND a feminist.

And proactively advocating for equal representation does not make you an unacceptable, inconvenient or difficult candidate for party preselection.

Together, we need to change up the conversation in branch meetings, during preselections and, ultimately, in party rooms.

Check out today's analysis on the importance of women's voices in policy-making and at the Cabinet table 👇

Forget the same old research, this letter reveals everything you need to know about the Liberals' women problem This week, South Australian Liberal Deputy Premier Vickie Chapman gave every one of her male colleagues a swift lesson in gender politics, writes Jane Norman.

The revolution is here.

We are live!

It's time to turn the tide, change up the game and flip the script on women's representation in South Australia.

How will you create change?

Check out our fancy new website to learn more:

www.suffragettegroup.com.au

"It may be news to the PM, but women have never achieved any rights equal to men’s without a fight. There are thousands of very credible women across Australia, of all political stripes, who won’t give up that fight, for ourselves and our daughters – and every one of us votes." 💪🏽

Regardless of our political colours, increasing women's representation on the parliamentary benches is vital.

Without a seat at the table, women’s voices will go unheard. The gendered issues that impede us will go unaddressed.

Look at your local council chamber.

Take a peek at our South Australian Parliament.

Or, in this case, eyeball your Federal Cabinet.

If you don’t see yourself - your values, your experiences or your vision - represented, we have a huge problem.

It's time to change up the game. How's your diary for next week? 👀

There are thousands of very credible women across Australia fighting for equal rights | Emma Dawson Proudly declaring that no gender analysis was done on the federal budget reveals a disturbing ignorance of the inherent bias in our economic system

"Ryan showed, even on the most controversial issues, it can and should be done"

Last week, we lost a pioneer in women's representation. The Honourable Susan Ryan AO was the first women appointed to cabinet in a Labor Government, during the Hawke Government in 1983.

But that was only the beginning of her incredible achievements, which enabled crucial, long-term change for Australian women 👇

She was a fighter, a trailblazer and a powerhouse.

Vale Susan. And thank you.

Vale Susan Ryan, pioneer Labor feminist who showed big, difficult policy changes can, and should, be made Susan Ryan brought brains and spirit to the big fights and relished them. What's more, she won them.

Today we have lost an incredible advocate, a fearless activist and a warrior for women's rights.

While the world might feel darker without her, we can honour her legacy by educating others, learning ourselves and, ultimately, continuing to fight.

Rest in power, RBG.

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Have you got Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons on your bookshelf?

This knocked our socks off.

How many elections - and lifetimes - will it take before you're represented?

Time to shake it up.

Looking forward to launching our website real soon ✨

Sign up and be the first to know 👀⬇️

www.suffragettegroup.com.au

"Feminism can, and must, contain all these contradictions, the differing priorities of difficult women.

But one thing should unite us: we should still try to turn our outrage into political power"

Monday's Food for Thought 💡📢💬

Fighting the tyranny of ‘niceness’: why we need difficult women Today’s thumbs-up, thumbs-down approach to feminism is boring and reductive. It is time to embrace complexity