6. THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION
7. THEY WORKED OUT THEIR POSITION
8. THEY DEVELOPED THEIR RESPONSE
9. THEY FOUGHT FOR CIVIL LIBERTY
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
16. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST UNEMPLOYMENT
17. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST THE COST OF LIVING20. 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
24. THE WPA ESTABLISHED AND RAN A WORKERS' COMMUNE
25. THE WPA GREW BEYOND VICTORIA26. THE WPA OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION
27. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY LEAFLETS28. 80,000 PEOPLE ON YARRA BANK
34. THE ARMISTICE IS NOT PEACE
35. 1919 THE WPA EXPOSED THE BLOCKADE
37. THE WORLD IS SICK UNTO DEATH
39. THE WPA DENOUNCED THE VERSAILLES PEACE TREATY
40. THE WPA REPORTED THE WOMEN’S INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
41. THE OLD ORDER HAS NOT CHANGED
45. ANZAC - THE SISTERHOOD FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (1915-1919)
46. ANZAC - THE WOMEN’S POLITICAL ASSOCIATION
48. THE ‘WRONGS UNDER WHICH THEIR COMRADES HAD LIVED’
FIRST WORLD WAR WOMEN
working for peace in Melbourne 1914-1919
PROLOGUE === 12 === 14. THE WPA DEMANDED
TERMS OF PEACE BE DECLARED
AND SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE
13. WARRING AGAINST WAR - SUPPORTING SOLDIERS
The WPA gave support to soldiers in many ways,
particularly to men in Prisoner of War camps.
Trained Nurses for Soldiers:
At long last the military authorities have
consented to employ trained women nurses at the
various camps.
It is deplorable that it should have taken so long
to secure this very necessary reform, and that so
many sick soldiers should have had their
sufferings increased unnecessarily owing to the
lack of that care and attention
and sympathy that are so essential to the sick.
Woman Voter 21 October 1915
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The soldiers who go away are heroes; the
wounded soldiers who return are a nuisance, to be
bundled away to their homes, or to hospital, or to
other States, as quickly as possible, regardless of
comfort or provision of money or food.
The treatment metered out to wounded soldiers,
and their nurses, who arrived by the “Kyarra” ...
was brought before the House ...
The response?
“The matter is being looked into.”
Woman Voter 29 July 1915
Nurse with wounded soldier, and Australian nurses, Egypt, c. 1914-1918, Kathleen Gawler Collection, State Library of Victoria, Gift of Kathleen Gawler (niece), 2011
Australian soldiers in Egypt, c. 1914-1918, Kathleen Gawler Collection, State Library of Victoria, Gift of Kathleen Gawler (niece), 2011
=== 14. THE WPA DEMANDED
TERMS OF PEACE BE DECLARED
AND SUBMITTED TO THE PEOPLE ===