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 === 2. === 4. LET US REASON TOGETHER
3. THE WAR - WOMEN’S PART
Woman Voter 11 August 1914:
Shall the mothers of the world rejoice? Shall they
not rather weep?
The reports from Europe which reach us lead us to
suppose that Britain has been victorious over the
German arms.
25,000 German casualties have been reported,
though it is denied that there has yet been a naval
engagement of importance.
The press asks us to rejoice over these victories
over the 25,000 who have paid the price of human
hate and human greed.
We cannot rejoice in the victory without, at the
same time, applauding the carnage.
We must pay the price of victory with death.
The thunder of shot and shell, the shouts of
victory cannot drown, in women's ears, the voices
of mothers weeping for their sons, the wailing of
children left fatherless in a stricken country.
Not all the bands and banners, not all the patriotic
demonstrations, or the pride of conquest can
make us forget that every man who lies dead on
the field of battle, or mutilated and dying in the
hospitals, represents for his father and mother
their pain, love, toil and care, and their humanity -
the hope and promise of the future.
Woman Voter 11 August 1914 State Library of Victoria
Bathing, 1899, Frances Edgar Masterton Vallance,
State Library of Victoria
=== 4. LET US REASON TOGETHER ===