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Speaker 1: New Jersey and Amanda.

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Speaker 2: Jamnason A good day to be voting. Tomorrow the local

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Speaker 2: elections are on.

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Speaker 1: The New South Wales local elections. Voting is compulsory.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: I had an interesting moment this week because I was thinking,

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Speaker 1: oh God, that's right, I've got to go and vote.

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Speaker 1: And I really had to, as they say, check my privilege,

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Speaker 1: because right at the same time, I'm going, ooh, I've

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Speaker 1: got a vote. I've been listening to a podcast about

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Speaker 1: Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davidson, who were the Suffragettes. All

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Speaker 1: I knew about Suffragettes when I was growing up was

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Speaker 1: this song by David Bowie. These women were amazing and

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Speaker 1: they were quite militant. Emmeline Pankhurst led this. She organized

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Speaker 1: the Suffragette movement, pushing for the vote for women, and

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Speaker 1: she died I think just eighteen days before it was

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Speaker 1: tabled in Parliament. But because they were not listened to

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Speaker 1: for so long, they tried so many methods. In the end,

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Speaker 1: they were on hunger strikes and they were force fed,

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Speaker 1: they're imprisoned. They blew up. They never killed anybody, but

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Speaker 1: they were blowing up buildings, they were throwing rocks, through windows.

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Speaker 1: They were seen as terrorists. But this was the activism

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Speaker 1: that was Yeah, but this is the activism that was required.

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Speaker 1: Emily Davidson was it one of these suffragettes, and she

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Speaker 1: actually threw herself under King George the Fifth's horse and

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Speaker 1: was killed. This is the lengths these women went to.

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Speaker 1: And I got quite emotional listening to that podcast, thinking here,

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Speaker 1: they had no idea that all these years later, the

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Speaker 1: privilege that we have that we talked about the women

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Speaker 1: in Afghanistan earlier this week, women whose actual voices aren't

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Speaker 1: allowed to be heard outside the house. And here's me going, oh,

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Speaker 1: I've got to go and vote.

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Speaker 2: Check your privilege, chesche privilege.

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Speaker 1: Were so lucky, and so beholden to those early women

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Speaker 1: who did the unpleasant, unpopular work that got us here.

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Speaker 2: Right on, sisters, I'm with you, and you can vote

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Speaker 2: earlier if you want to.

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Speaker 3: You just got to have an excuse.

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Speaker 2: That's what happens to me, because I woke past the

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Speaker 2: polling booth and they say, and why won't you be

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Speaker 2: voting on Saturday. I haven't come up with an excuse, So.

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Speaker 1: I will mention the suffragette.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be doing something on Saturday, which means

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Speaker 3: I can't vote today.

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Speaker 1: You do whatever technique you like, but I urge you

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Speaker 1: don't be a curmudgeon about it, because it actually is

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Speaker 1: a privilege.

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Speaker 2: It's coming up to it.

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Speaker 1: I get a sausage.

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Speaker 3: That's the upside.

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Speaker 1: That's what they needed, was democracy sausages. Back in the

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Speaker 1: Suffragette State,