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

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

26. THE WPA OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION

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

34. THE ARMISTICE IS NOT PEACE

Peace is dawning more brightly day by day, but

the greatest mental alertness is required to

distinguish even dimly between the true and the

false propositions for a constructive peace. The

false clamours so loudly that the still, small voice

of Truth and Justice is apt to go unheeded ...

May we venture to prophesy?

Democracy, of a kind,

will triumph, but it will be of such a form that

those who called most loudly for democracy will

prefer before it the autocracy they seek, and seek

rightly, to dethrone.

Woman Voter 7 November 1918 State Library of Victoria

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Eleanor Moore

from the Sisterhood of International Peace:

'On November 11, 1918, the war in Europe came

to an end with dramatic suddenness. All

combatants on both sides instantaneously obeyed

the order, “Cease firing !” thus proving once again

how completely the operation of war is within the

control of its directors and how perfectly able men

are to stop it whenever they will.'

Eleanor M Moore The Quest for Peace As I have known it in Australia, 1949

Disembarking after returning from Europe, Port Melbourne 1919, Donated Mrs A. Holloway, State Library of Victoria

=== 35. 1919 THE WPA EXPOSED THE BLOCKADE ===