White women in Australia were among the first in the world to get the right to vote. This came after years of campaigns in the women’s suffrage movement. South Australia was first, with women given the vote in 1894, followed by Western Australia in 1899. From 1902, most women were allowed to vote in all federal elections. Over the next few years the remaining states also allowed women to vote at state elections: NSW (1902), Tasmania (1903), Queensland (1905) and Victoria (1908). However Aboriginal women and some other groups still were not allowed to vote, and women were still not allowed to stand for state parliament. The federal election of 1903 was the first time anywhere in the world that women had the right not only to vote but also to stand for seats. Three women stood as candidates for the Senate in that election. Although none of them won seats this time around, the fact that they were candidates helped some people to accept the idea that it might be a good thing to have some women in parliament. It was not until 1921, when Edith Cowan was elected to the Western Australian parliament, that a woman actually won a parliamentary seat in Australia. Women first entered federal parliament in 1943 with the elections of Dorothy Tangney from Western Australia (Labor) to the Senate, and Dame Enid Lyons from Tasmania (Liberal) to the House of Representatives (she was later to become the first woman minister).