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Report from the Select Committee .. on a New Constitution for the Colony, 9 December 1853
Lord John Russell's letter to the Governor of Victoria, 20 July 1855
An Act to enable Her Majesty to assent to ... establish a Constitution in and for the Colony of Victoria
1855
Colonial Secretary, William Haines to Governor of Victoria, 26 November 1855
Elections and voting rights
An Act to extend the Elective Franchise
1854
No. XII [of 1856]
Act to provide for the Election of Members to service in the legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Victoria respectively
1856
No. XII [of 1857]
An Act to Abolish the Property Qualification required by Members of the Legislative Assembly
1857
No. XXXIII
An Act to extend the right of Voting and to provide for the registration of Parliamentary Electors
1857
No. CCCXXXIV
Legislative Council Amendment Act
1868
No. CCCLXXXIII
An Act to provide for reimbursing Members of the Legislative Council and of the Legislative Assembly their expenses in relation to their attendance in Parliament
1870
No. DCCII
Legislative Council Act
1881
No. 1606
Constitution Act Amendment Act
1899
No. 1701
Voting by Post Act
1900
No. 2185
Adult Suffrage Act
1908
No. 2321
Preferential Voting Act
1911
No. 3218
Constitution Act Amendment Act
1922
No. 3337
Parliamentary Elections (Women Candidates) Act
1923
No. 3488
Compulsory Voting (Assembly Elections) Act
1926
No. 4409
Constitution Act Amendment Act
1936
No. 4350
Legislative Council Elections Act
1935
No. 4533
Constitution (Reform) Act
1938
No. 5465
Legislative Council Reform Act
1950
No. 8385
Constitution Act Amendment (Qualifications) Act
1973
Women's rights
1900 Women's Suffrage Petition
1900 Anti-Women's Suffrage Petition
Some examples of more recent petitons tabled in Parliament (from the March 1994 sitting)
The debate in the Legislative Council about women's right to vote (Parliamentary Debates, vol 119, 1908)
Cartoon from
Punch
, 5 November 1908
Public health, education and welfare
No. 6053
An Act relating to Children’s Courts
1956
No. CCCCXLVII
An Act to amend the Law relating to Education
1872
No. 3605
Adoption of Children Act
1928
No. 4531
Housing Act
1937
No. 80 of 1991
Disability Services Act
1991
No. CCCLVII
Library Museums and National Gallery Act
1869
No. MCC
Fire Brigades Act
1890
No. No. XLI An Act to regulate the residence of the Chinese population in Victoria 1857
No. CCCXLIX
An Act to provide for the Protection and Management of Aboriginal Natives of Victoria
1869
Environment
No. 6023
National Parks Act
1956
No. 7145
Litter Act
1964
No. 6125
Clean Air Act
1957
Owning land
No. DLXXV
Land Tax Act
1877
Letters to
The Argus
on owning land and access to water, 1860 and 1862
No. CXVII
Nicholson Land Act
1860
No. CXLV
Duffy Land Act
1862
Water and infrastructure
No. XXXVI
An Act to authorize the raising of Moneys for the Construction of certain Railways
1857
No. CXLLIV
Public Health Statute
1865
No. DCLXXXVI
An Act to provide for the granting of certain Loans for Water Supply in the country districts ...
1881
No. CCLXXXVIII
Waterworks Act
1865
No. DCCXVI
Victorian Water Conservation Act
1881
No. DCCCXCVIII
Irrigation Act
1886
1887 Chaffey Brothers' Agreement
No. MCXCVII
Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works Act
1890
No. 2596
An Act to ratify and provide for carrying out an Agreement entered into between the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia and the premiers of the States of New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia, respecting the River Murray and Lake Victoria and other waters and for other purposes
1915
No. 36 of 1992
Heritage Rivers Act
1992
No. 116
Melbourne City Link Authority Act
1994
Miscellaneous
No. 9025
Equal Opportunity Act
1977
No. 2838
Daylight Savings Act
1916
No. 7634
Sunday Entertainment Act
1967
No. 9859
Freedom of Information Act
1982
No. 3407
Anzac Day Act
1925
No. CCLXXVII
Post Office Statute
1865
No. 1374
Income Tax Act
1895
No. CCCLXXXIX
Discipline Act
1870
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