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canvassed for the women's vote for the
December 1903 Federal election, by forming the Women Workers' Political Organisation with Miller as president. After the Federal election Miller stood down as president, but became President of the Political Labour Council in Brisbane. Women were granted the vote for the Queensland parliament on 25 January 1905, although not the right to stand for parliament. The following year Emma Miller embarked on a tour of western Queensland under the auspices of the
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Federal Electoral Act on 9 April 1902, becoming the first women of the world to win the right to vote for a national parliament. (Women in New Zealand won the right to vote in colonial elections in 1893). Members of the Women's Equal Franchise Association actively
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Mycroft Silcock. They had four children together; however, Silcock died and Miller took up sewing to support the family. In 1874 Miller married William Calderwood, and they migrated with Miller's children to Queensland, arriving in 1879.
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Commission into Shops, Factories and Workshops, that highlighted the existence of many sweatshops that exploited women workers. Through this period Miller was an active participant in the Early Closing Association.
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for several weeks rest. At her last public meeting in the
Toowoomba Botanical Gardens she impressed on the women present the "need to play a part in the Labor movement as it meant as much to them as the men". Two days later Emma Miller died of cancer. The flag at
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along socialist lines which attracted many labour activists, Miller believed Lane was "opting out of the struggle" and became a foundation member of the
Workers' Political Organisation, a forerunner of the
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was flown at half mast for the "mother of the
Australian Labor Party". A state funeral was offered but was refused by her surviving son. Miller was buried at
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established the Emma Miller Award, which is presented each year to women who have made an outstanding contribution to their union.
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visited Brisbane in 1915, and was elected president. The following year she attended the Australian Peace Alliance conference in
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magazine published a poem in memorial to Miller. In 1922, a marble bust of her by
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Calderwood died in 1880, and Miller married Andrew Miller in Brisbane in 1886.
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activism over the course of World War I. She joined the
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526:"Women's Equal Franchise Association. (1894-1905)"
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552:"Chronology of Women's Suffrage in Queensland"
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749:"Statue of Emma Miller, King George Square"
687:"[?] Verse. - Emma Miller Memorial"
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