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

PROLOGUE === 41. === 43. THE END?

 

42. HERE, IN AUSTRALIA

This war, the culmination of unenlightened and

anti-democratic forces, has taught us that we

must, in future, watch very carefully what the

Great Powers are doing to the Little Powers and to

the No Powers.

Woman Voter 30 November 1916 State Library of Victoria

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Whatever comes, there is nothing that will get us

all out of the slough, soldiers and citizens alike,

but addressing ourselves seriously to the arts of

peace; strenuously developing the best within

ourselves, and the rich capacities of this beautiful

land of ours.

Authorised by Mary E. Fullerton, the Guild Hall,

Swanston Street, Melbourne

Woman Voter

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Letter from Miss Goldstein:

“The peoples, as well as the Governments, have

sown the wind of misunderstanding and of hate

and are reaping the whirlwind, and we must bring

in the soft breezes of sweet reasonableness, of

charity, of clarity to the consideration of social

and industrial problems.”

Woman Voter 18 December 1919 State Library of Victoria

=== 43. THE END? ===