Alicia O'Shea Petersen

Alicia O'Shea Petersen

Alicia O'Shea Petersen (1862 - 1923) was a Tasmanian suffragist and social reformer.

Alicia O'Shea Petersen was born in Tasmania. Her interest in women's and labor rights is likely to have come from her own work in sweatshops and through interaction with her cousin John Earle, who founded the Workers' Political League and became the first Labor Premier of Tasmania in 1909.

She was the first woman in Tasmania to stand as a political candidate, contesting the federal seat of Denison in 1913. In 1922, when women were first eligible to stand for the Tasmanian House of Assembly, she was a political candidate in Denison.

References

*Women Tasmania. [http://www.women.tas.gov.au/significantwomen/search/alicia_oshea.html Alicia O'Shea Petersen] .


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