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

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

26. THE WPA OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION

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

36. HYPOCRISY

The Woman Voter reported:

Peace has come.

Let those who can still deceive themselves

celebrate it.

Of peace I have little to say.

It is unspeakable, what there is of it.

We have saved the world from the Germans.

Heaven send us something

to save the world from us.

The Home Government, through Mr Churchill,

has quite frankly explained the necessity

for preparing for perpetual war.

We are at war or warring in pretty well

every quarter of the globe ...

We consign to starvation ...

women, little children and old men -

firmly refusing to end our war with them,

even when the war with their men had ceased ...

We bomb defenceless towns from the air,

while our press is still yelling for the blood

of those who transgressed international law

and our gentle women and brave men

bear these unnameable things

with an equanimity in which can be detected

not one quiver of protest.

I wish, for my soul’s relief,

I could find two words that would express

our damnable hypocrisy.

Woman Voter 3 July 1919 State Library of Victoria

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=== 37. THE WORLD IS SICK UNTO DEATH ===