Australian women activists continued to campaign throughout the early decades of the 20th century and had some success. In 1868 Zelda D’Aprano, using one of the tactics of the late nineteenth- century suffragists, chained herself to the doors of the commonwealth building in Melbourne. She was protesting against the common wealth Arbitration Commissions’ failure to achieve equal pay for women. In 1970, along with other women she formed the women’s action committee, which was a forerunner of the women’s liberation movement. Whereas Australia’s earlier turn-of-the-century feminists had fought primarily for woman’s suffrage, the ‘second wave’ feminists of the late 1960s and 1970’s had broader goals and interests. They aimed to overturn notions
