The association was founded in March 1894 at a meeting in the Brisbane Town Hall with approximately 110 members.
Mrs John Donaldson was the founding president and Charlotte Eleanor Trundle was the secretary.
[1][2] At the second general meeting of the association on 27 April 1894, Emma Miller was elected president and the wording of a petition to be presented to the Queensland Parliament was agreed.
Unlike the original aim of the association, the petition called for "granting to white women the franchise, embodying the principle of one adult one vote and one only", rejecting the system of plural voting then used for men.
The suffrage law extension of 1905 did not extend to Indigenous citizens of the state, male and female, which did not gain the vote until 1962.