💪 Something To Think About When You're Voting This Weekend!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
New Jersey and Amanda.

Speaker 2 (00:02):
Jamnason A good day to be voting. Tomorrow the local
elections are on.

Speaker 1 (00:07):
The New South Wales local elections. Voting is compulsory.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
You know.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I had an interesting moment this week because I was thinking,
oh God, that's right, I've got to go and vote.
And I really had to, as they say, check my privilege,
because right at the same time, I'm going, ooh, I've
got a vote. I've been listening to a podcast about
Emmeline Pankhurst and Emily Davidson, who were the Suffragettes. All
I knew about Suffragettes when I was growing up was
this song by David Bowie. These women were amazing and

(00:37):
they were quite militant. Emmeline Pankhurst led this. She organized
the Suffragette movement, pushing for the vote for women, and
she died I think just eighteen days before it was
tabled in Parliament. But because they were not listened to
for so long, they tried so many methods. In the end,
they were on hunger strikes and they were force fed,
they're imprisoned. They blew up. They never killed anybody, but

(01:00):
they were blowing up buildings, they were throwing rocks, through windows.
They were seen as terrorists. But this was the activism
that was Yeah, but this is the activism that was required.
Emily Davidson was it one of these suffragettes, and she
actually threw herself under King George the Fifth's horse and
was killed. This is the lengths these women went to.
And I got quite emotional listening to that podcast, thinking here,

(01:22):
they had no idea that all these years later, the
privilege that we have that we talked about the women
in Afghanistan earlier this week, women whose actual voices aren't
allowed to be heard outside the house. And here's me going, oh,
I've got to go and vote.

Speaker 2 (01:35):
Check your privilege, chesche privilege.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
Were so lucky, and so beholden to those early women
who did the unpleasant, unpopular work that got us here.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Right on, sisters, I'm with you, and you can vote
earlier if you want to.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
You just got to have an excuse.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
That's what happens to me, because I woke past the
polling booth and they say, and why won't you be
voting on Saturday. I haven't come up with an excuse, So.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
I will mention the suffragette.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I'm going to be doing something on Saturday, which means
I can't vote today.

Speaker 1 (02:05):
You do whatever technique you like, but I urge you
don't be a curmudgeon about it, because it actually is
a privilege.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's coming up to it.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
I get a sausage.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
That's the upside.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
That's what they needed, was democracy sausages. Back in the
Suffragette State,