Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Australia Section) (1919 - )

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was formed at a congress in Zurich in May 1919. Its genesis stemmed from a joint tour of the USA by British suffagist Emmeline Pethwick-Lawrence and Hungarian feminist Rosika Shwimmer in 1914. In 1915, the Sisterhood for Peace (SIP) was formed in Melbourne, and in 1919 SIP members travelled to attend the conference in Zurich. SIP then reconstituted itself as the Australian section of the WILPF. Its headquarters remained in Victoria when WILPF branches were later established in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Western Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. The Australian section was formally separated from the Victorian branch in 1920.

Aside from campaigning for international disarmament and an end to all war, WILPF has taken action on a wide range of social justice issues.

• Sisterhood for International Peace (former name)

Member

• Abraham, Vivienne (1920 - )

  Vivienne Abraham was the honourary secretary of the WILPF (Australian section)

  [1982 - 1989]

• Cornelius, Stella (1919 - )
• Forte, Kathleen (Margaret) (1917 - 2001)
• Goldstein, Vida (1869 - 1949)
• Picone, Catherine (Cathy) (1949 - )
• Vroland, Anna (1902 - 1978)

Membership

• Blackburn, Doris Amelia (1889 - 1970)
• Pethybridge, Eva

President

• Buckland-Fuller, Dorothy (1922 - )

  Dorothy Buckland-Fuller has been a member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom since 1982, She was president in 2002-4.

Subordinate

• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (South Australian Branch)
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Western Australian Branch (1933 - )

Superior

• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (Victoria branch) (1915 - )

Related Corporate Bodies

• Western Australian Council for Equal Pay and Opportunity (1958 - 1973)

Journals

• 'Peace and Freedom', Journal of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Australian Section, 1962-. [ Details... ]

Newsletters

• 'Peace and Freedom', Journal of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Australian Section, 1962-. [ Details... ]
• W.I.L.P.F. bulletin / Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, N.S.W. Branch, 1966-1996. [ Details... ]

See also

• Caine, Barbara, 'Greenwood, Irene', in Caine, Barbara (ed.), Australian feminism : a companion, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998, pp. 429-430. [ Details... ]
• Caine, Barbara (ed.), Australian Feminism: A Companion, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1998, 607 pp. [ Details... ]
• Moore, Eleanor M. (Eleanor May), The quest for peace as I have known it in Australia, s.n., [Melbourne], [1949], 208 pp. [ Details... ]
• Suzanne Fabian, Morag Loh, Left-wing ladies : the union of Australian women in Victoria 1950-1998, Hyland House, Flemington, Vic, 2000, 196 pp. [ Details... ]