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
41. THE OLD ORDER HAS NOT CHANGED
About a situation which is hourly changing,
and about which our information is so fragmented and unreliable,
it is little use of saying much.
One thing, however, stands starkly clear
amidst all the uncertainty of the world’s affairs -
that is, the old order has not changed ...
The winning nations, in the person of their rulers,
show that victory has poisoned them,
put a dangerous virus in their veins, a kind of “ill ichor”,
which, working its course, produces new wars.
The map will be changed, that is all,
and the balance of power readjusted.
New animosities, like mushrooms, are being sown.
One can hear the clatter of new swords
between the words at the peace table.
Such a fine term as “mandatory powers”
is but a masquerade for the old thing “protectorate”,
and protectorate is, we know, a euphemism for something else.
The language and conduct of diplomacy are still to obtain,
the powerful are still to hold,
and the small and feeble to be subject.
The defeated are to be degraded to the utmost in the unarming,
crippled in opportunity, and mortgaged beyond reason.
Woman Voter 22 May 1919 State Library of Victoria
Leader in the Age 12 July 1919
=== 42. HERE, IN AUSTRALIA ===