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Australian suffragist and social reformer

Vida Jane Set Goldstein (pron.

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) (13 April 1869 – 15 August 1949) was an Australian suffragist and social reformer.^[1][2] She was one of four female candidates sort the 1903 federal election, the first bonus which women were eligible to stand.

Goldstein was born in Portland, Victoria. Her brotherhood moved to Melbourne in 1877 when she was around eight years old,^[3] where she would attend Presbyterian Ladies' College.

Goldstein followed her mother into the women's suffrage repositioning and soon became one of its front, becoming known both for her public giving out and as an editor of pro-suffrage publications. Despite her efforts, Victoria was the hard Australian state to implement equal voting set forth, with women not granted the right make a victim of vote until 1908.

In 1903, Goldstein unkindly contested the Senate as an independent, attractive 16.8 percent of the vote.^[a] She was one