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 === 44. === 46. ANZAC - THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION

 

45. ANZAC - THE SISTERHOOD FOR

INTERNATIONAL PEACE (1915-1919)


 At the landing on Gallipoli, April 25, 1915, the elder son of our

vice-president, Mrs Warren Kerr, was one of the first to be killed.

 

The effect on the mother was to inspire her with still stronger

determination to devote her life to work for the abolition of war.

Eleanor M. Moore, The Quest for Peace as I have known it in Australia, Melbourne

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Eleanor Moore:

About that time Mr Winston Churchill made this

public utterance:- “No operations in history are

more worthy of being pushed on with the utmost

vigour and an utter disregard for life than those at

Gallipoli.”

 

On reading this, Mrs Kerr wrote and published in

leaflet form an Appeal to Women, beginning:-

 

“I think it was then that the iron entered my soul

and I finally decided what my life’s work should be ...

 

Australia makes no complaint,” I read elsewhere.

 

Women, have you no hearts, who can “utterly

disregard” this?

Eleanor M. Moore, The Quest for Peace as I have known it in Australia, Melbourne 1949 p. 41

 


Australian troops advancing, c. 1915, Gift of R. P. Bennett.,
State Library of Victoria

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