Hi Betty and list Australia became a federation in on 1 Jan 1901 when the six former colonies became federal states of the Commonwealth. Unlike the US 19th amendment, no constitutional amendment was required to give women the vote in Australia. The all-male conferences which debated the question of federation and the drafting of the Australian Constitution did debate whether women should have the vote: the Constitution was left silent on the question but provided that if you had a right to vote in a State election, then you had a right to vote at a Federal election which meant that South Australian and Western Australian women had a federal right to vote. In 1902, the Commonwealth Parliament legislated to extend the right to most women in the other States (aboriginal women had to wait some time to get the franchise or have it restored) and exercised that right for the first time in the elections held in December 1903. Electoral rolls from 1903 are a really valuable source of family history information. There's a useful timeline of milestones "Electoral Milestones for Women" at: http://www.aec.gov.au/elections/australian_electoral_history/milestone.htm The Commonwealth Parliament has good list of links "Women in Politics" at: http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/pol/polwomen.htm One of those links takes you to "A Matter of Public Importance: Votes for Women" http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/POL/women/Women.htm There were Leagues of Women Voters in the various states later federated and renamed as the Australian Federation of Women Voters. See: http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/514004?c=people None of these used the acronym LOL. I still think that the most likely reference is to Loyal Orange Lodge. Regards 2010/1/2 Betty <bbffrrpp@comcast.net>: > month) that in the US it was the 1920's that women got the "right to vote." > "League of Women Voters."