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 weapon which would annihilate the trade. Tasmania, which only enfranchised her women in December, 1903, in 1906 passed an Act prohibiting opium smoking. The women's vote will attack this question in England too, for women will attach more importance to the salvation of human life than to money for the national coffers. Since 1903 (December) Tasmania—the little island south of Australia and one of the Commonwealth States—has placed on the Statute Book the following Acts since the women exercised their votes:—Legitimation Act; Women and Children Employment Act; Education Act; Youthful Offenders, Destitute, and Neglected Children Act, in 1905; the Midwifery Nurses Act; Opium Smoking Prohibition Act; Young Persons' and Women's Detention Act, in 1906. Surely, surely these are sufficient proof that women's share in politics are not blocks to reform, but rather open the door to reform.

The State of Western Australia gave her women the vote in 1898 (the second Australian State to enfranchise women). Since then an Act to raise the age of consent from fourteen years to sixteen (now eighteen) was carried. Women were made eligible for the Bar. Arbitration (Industrial Disputes), Compensation to Families of Persons killed by Accidents, Co-operative and Provident Societies Acts, Criminal Code Consolidation Acts, Drunkards Act (1903), Early Closing (1902), Education Amendments (1899), Factories Act (1904), Gaols (1903), Health Act Amendments (1899 and 1904), Indecent Publications (1902), Marriage Law (1900), Married Women's