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Maeve Bannister

State celebrates major milestone for women in politics

Millicent Preston-Stanley became the first woman elected to the NSW Legislative Assembly in 1925. (PR IMAGE PHOTO)

August marks 100 years since NSW elected its first woman to parliament, feminist and temperance campaigner Millicent Preston-Stanley.

While Australian women were given the right to vote and stand in federal elections in 1902, it took the states longer to catch up. 

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