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
47. AN ANZAC SERMON
From the Woman Voter:
H.M.T. Orsova, Nearing Suez, 28 April 1919,
Vida Goldstein
“The Anzac sermon was preached
by an army chaplain;
it was a glorification of the Australians,
with some humorous sidelights.
It had none of the dignity and impressiveness
that one would have thought
the occasion demanded,
and offered no comfort to those present
who had lost relatives at Gallipoli
and on other battlefields.
He denied absolutely the oft-repeated statement
that the Australian soldiers were undisciplined.
They were splendidly disciplined, he said,
but their disciplined conduct had no trace
of servility.
He spoke feelingly of the social conditions
that had killed soldiers before they entered
the trenches.
The evidence in the trenches
of the terrible results of those social conditions
had roused many men to the sense of their duty
to their fellows,
and made them resolve
that when they returned to civil life they would
do all in their power to right the wrongs
under which their comrades had lived.”
Woman Voter 7 August 1919 State Library of Victoria
T. P. Bennett, photographer, Australian soldiers on deck of troopship,
1915, State Library of Victoria
=== 48. THE ‘WRONGS UNDER WHICH THEIR COMRADES HAD LIVED’ ===