Becoming A City: Growing Older

Older women were in the workforce. Some of these were women who had never married and some were widows who were in a difficult position without the Government assistance available today. Age and invalid pensions were available, but child endowment was not introduced universally throughout Australia until 1941 and widows pensions until 1943. Before that, widows relied on charity, their family or their ability to work. [1]

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