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

17. THE WPA PROTESTED AGAINST THE COST OF LIVING

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

25. THE WPA GREW BEYOND VICTORIA

26. THE WPA OPPOSED CONSCRIPTION

27. WOMEN'S PEACE ARMY LEAFLETS

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

PROLOGUE === 8. === 10. A FIGHT LED BY A WOMAN

 

9. THEY FOUGHT FOR CIVIL LIBERTY 

Vida Goldstein:

(Women) must stand united in the cause of free

speech, a free press, and the rights of conscience -

those great bulwarks of liberty - which they would

not allow to be filched from them in this time of

panic.

Woman Voter 9 September 1915 State Library of Victoria


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Military Censorship -

The blank pages in last week’s issue of

“The Woman Voter”

show that our paper has come under the ban

of the military censor ...

 

Our civil liberty and the freedom of the press are

in jeopardy, and we are prepared to fight for both ...

 

On 9th instant an armed guard, with fixed

bayonets, a commanding officer, a detective, and

police, took charge of the establishment of our

printers, Messrs Fraser and Jenkinson ... seized

the first prints of the “Woman Voter”,  and the

correspondence etc. referred to above was

destroyed.

 

We are told that we may publish anything that will

“stimulate military enthusiasm” which is

explained by the “Military Journal” as developing

a “desire to kill."

Woman Voter 16 September 1914 State Library of Victoria

 

Woman Voter 21 September 1916 State Library of Victoria

=== 10. A FIGHT LED BY A WOMAN ===