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
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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