The Muriel Matters Society Inc. is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 2009 to:
BROAD: Muriel Matters and the Riot Grille
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BROAD’S Sonja Hammer speaks with Frances Bedford MP in South Australia, about an awesome Aussie Suffragette Muriel Matters, a woman activist who in 1900’s England terrified and inspired England’s conservative society as a firebrand activist and Suffragette : ‘for the Australian women won the right to vote twenty years before the UK. So Matters decided to move to London and help her ‘sisters’ in Blighty.
So while most of the world knows the names of UK suffragettes like Emmeline Pankhurst, the names of the Aussie suffragettes should be equally – or arguably more – famous, seeing as they were two whole decades ahead of the Brits. (New Zealand suffragettes won the right to vote one year before Australia).’ Excerpt from Huffington Post article click here
And what about that iron ‘GRILLE’? : ‘Matters first made a name for herself when she chained herself to a grille in the Ladies Gallery of the House of Commons. Due to a technicality, Matters became the first woman ever to speak inside Britain’s Parliament House. That’s because she was attached to the grille in the room and became quite vocal as she was being dragged away.’
Frances Bedford MP is the Secretary/Treasurer of an organsiation called The Muriel Matters Society Inc based in South Australia:
• Research, establish and perpetuate the history of the career and life’s work of South Australia’s Muriel Lilah Matters.
• Promote the ideals and vision around Muriel’s philosophy of equality and access, especially in the areas of women’s participation, education for all, industrial fairness and world peace.
• Encourage members and the wider public to adopt Muriel’s principles for social justice and egalitarian values.
All money raised by The Society through memberships fees, the selling of ephemera and private donations is used to further the above aims.
Thanks to Frances Bedford MP for her time.
Click for the Muriel Matters Society Inc here for more information.
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