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Australian women's main involvement in World War I was through a range of war charities or patriotic funds, far from the front line—indeed, on the other side of the world. For Australian women, the home front was where the wartime action was—knitting socks, packing parcels, fundraising or undertaking quasi-nursing domestic duties as Red Cross Voluntary Aids (VAs). The focus for much of this female wartime civilian activity was not just the Australian serviceman, but also his dependants, and the wounded and maimed. The importance of this traditional female war work has never been sufficiently acknowledged. Seen as 'watching and waiting', women were also 'giving 'til it hurts'. With the exception of nursing, women's roles were not considered proper war work. Even nursing was marginalised due to a perception of its inherent 'safety', compounding the view that real war participation only meant being in the front line. Source: anzacportal.dva.gov.au/resources/australian-women-and-war

First snow of the season. August.

New Farm is the land of the Turrbal people. The Turrbal people are the traditional owners of most of Brisbane, with their land reaching as far up as North Pine River and as far south as Logan River. New Farm was, shockingly enough, farming land tended to by convicts from the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement. New Farm became Brisbane’s second major farm, established in 1839 to replace the South Brisbane farming area. Therefore, New Farm was once upon a time literally a new farm. The farming area (which would later become New Farm Park) was bordered by two main thoroughfares. The roads were later named Brunswick Street and Merthyr Road. European families settled on sub-divisions around these thoroughfares. While it wasn’t unheard of to find an English, Irish, or Scottish family residing in New Farm, the majority of immigrants were of Italian descent. To this day, Italian culture continues to be a massive influence on the suburb. You’ll find everyone seems to know each other and they’ll drop what they’re doing to have a chat over coffee, cheese, and cured meats. Source: huttonandhutton.com.au/new-farm-a-history/