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 === 42. === 44. STRANDED IN LONDON

 

43. THE END?

The present intention of the Association is to go

into recess (not to vegetate, but to possess our

souls); into what we shall then emerge, it doth not

yet appear. But we MUST not, DARE not, be idle.

Woman Voter 18 December 1919 State Library of Victoria

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We have to notify subscribers and readers

generally of this paper that with this issue this

publication ceases. The reason for this is wrapped

up in those considerations ... that bring about the

dissolving of the WPA ...

 

To the immortal credit of the WPA and its

President, we were one of the shining minority

who remained true to the principles of Peace,

espoused so loyally by the “Voter,” when so many

others, alas, bowed to expediency.

 

The “Voter” never turned its back, but marched

breast forward, then as ever. It cared neither for

the cautions of the timid or for the blame of

enemies. It walked right through the censor, or,

when he worsted it in an encounter, was doubly

eloquent in its blank spaces for the cause of

brotherly love ...

 

And now the “Voter” does not die, nor does perish

the work that it has done, mostly by the pen of its

editor, Miss Goldstein. Its voice has gone into

many places of the earth, and its influence has

been potent. It has been a trailblazer.

Woman Voter 18 December 1919 State Library of Victoria

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Vida Goldstein

The WPA and the Women’s Peace Army

will be remembered in Australian History

as the one band of workers

who never wavered for one instant

in the Australian fight for internationalism,

which the WPA began on August 7, 1914.

Woman Voter 11 May 1917 State Library of Victoria

=== 44. STRANDED IN LONDON ===