PROLOGUE

2. THE WAR

3. THE WAR - WOMEN’S PART

4. LET US REASON TOGETHER

5. VIDA GOLDSTEIN

6. THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

7. THEY WORKED OUT THEIR POSITION

8. THEY DEVELOPED THEIR RESPONSE

9. THEY FOUGHT FOR CIVIL LIBERTY

10. A FIGHT LED BY A WOMAN

11. 'I DIDN'T RAISE MY SON TO BE A SOLDIER'

12. THEY OPPOSED WHITE AUSTRALIA

13. WARRING AGAINST WAR - SUPPORTING SOLDIERS

14. THE WPA DEMANDED
TERMS OF PEACE BE DECLARED
AND SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE

15. THE WPA WAS FEMINIST

16. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT

17. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST THE COST OF LIVING

18. WINNERS AND LOSERS

19. THE WOMEN’S PEACE ARMY

20. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY RESOLUTIONS

21. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S UNEMPLOYMENT BUREAU

22. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WOMEN’S FARMING CO-OPERATIVE

23. 'AS GOOD AS A MAN'

24. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WORKERS' COMMUNE

25. THE WPA GREW BEYOND VICTORIA

26. THE WPA OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION

27. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY LEAFLETS

28. 80,000 PEOPLE ON YARRA BANK

29. PRESS, PULPIT AND PURSE

30. A CONSTRUCTIVE PEACE

31. WOMEN’S TERMS OF PEACE

32. PEACE IN HONOUR’S CAUSE

33. WHOSE PEACE?

34. THE ARMISTICE IS NOT PEACE

35. 1919 THE WPA EXPOSED THE BLOCKADE

36. HYPOCRISY

37. THE WORLD IS SICK UNTO DEATH

38. THE WPA SENT TWO REPRESENTATIVES TO THE 1919 WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR PERMANENT PEACE AT ZURICH

39. THE WPA DENOUNCED THE VERSAILLES PEACE TREATY

40. THE WPA REPORTED THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS

41. THE OLD ORDER HAS NOT CHANGED

42. HERE, IN AUSTRALIA

43. THE END?

44. STRANDED IN LONDON

45. ANZAC - THE SISTERHOOD FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (1915-1919)

46. ANZAC - THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

47. AN ANZAC SERMON

48. THE ‘WRONGS UNDER WHICH THEIR COMRADES HAD LIVED’

49. THE WOMEN?

50. ANOTHER WAR

 

FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN

working for peace in Melbourne 1914-1919

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27. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY LEAFLETS

No. 1 - No Conscription - If Parliament watches the interests of the

people properly, Conscription can never be made law ... the power to

apply the Defence Act in that way exists only when there is danger

of an invasion or an armed attack upon the Commonwealth.

 

No. 2 - Conscription and Women - All true women should oppose

conscription because conscription makes wars.

 

No. 3 - Conscription Hands Us Over to the Armament Ring ... The

policy of huge armaments which made war inevitable, and rendered

it so dreadful when it came, was dictated by an International Ring of

Armament firms under the direction of prominent and all powerful

statesmen and financiers who control parliaments, governments and

the press.

 

No. 4 - Conscription and Crushing Germany ... To say that permanent

peace will be secured by crushing Germany is to speak ignorantly

and foolishly. Are the women and children to be exterminated? Why?

In June 1915, Germany had 6,493,000 soldiers or 10% of her total

population on the field ... If the Allies, by means of fearful sacrifice,

destroy that 10%, the rest of the population, 90% of it, still remain.

These are mainly women and children - more than one half are

children. They represent a new Germany, and in a few years they will

grow to be men and women, from whom a new generation of

soldiers can be recruited.

Woman Voter 14 September 1916

Courtesy of John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library. Records of Tom Fitzgerald. Marchers in procession, 21 October 1916. JCPML00687/15/2

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