Women in our new world. (Sydney : Current Book Distributors, 1947)

The author begins by showing us a scene in an Australian city, with the children playing cricket on the street, using garbage cans as wickets and sitting on the gutters. We are then asked to imagine "that we have a Socialist Australia, and see what has happened to one family, the Morris family - and how they live under socialism. (p. 6)

The family had lived in "a two-roomed condemned cottage" but, after "Socialism began to get under way" they had been "moved into a self-contained flat in a converted mansion" (p. 7)

Margaret Morris works in the Eureka machine-building plant and finds she is pregnant, "She was put onto lighter work, and six weeks before the baby was due she went on leave on full pay." (p. 8) Her doctor reassures her,

"Don't worry about the birth, Mrs. Morris," she encouraged. "You'll have no hospital expenses, of course, and there's the new painless birth treatment for everyone now. I felt nothing at all when I had my last baby, and he was born in two hours! (p. 9)

After giving the reader a glimpse of the ideal life in the socialist future the writer exhorts women to "stand side by side with their men today - whether they are housewives or workers in industry". (p. 20)