(2016) ABC News, Adelaide

In this clip broadcast on ABC News Adelaide on 6 September 2016, ABC Europe Correspondent, Steve Cannanne speaks with British Home Secretary, Amber Rudd MP and South Australian MP and Muriel Matters Society Secretary, Frances Bedford MP to discuss the little known fact that the first woman to speak on the floor of the British House of Commons was a South Australian. In 1908, suffragette Muriel Matters staged a suffragette Muriel Matters staged a daring protest in the UK Parliament, and managed to make a speech to members before being thrown out. That act has once again been remembered in Westminster.

This video complements the ABC News Online article and ABC World Today audio by Steve Cannane:

Rebellato, E., Cannane, S., Bedford, F., & Rudd, A. (2016). Women’s suffrage: Muriel mattered: It’s a little known fact that the first woman to speak on the floor of the British House of Commons was a South Australian. ABC News WA. Broadcast 6 September 2016.