Description

Based on historical events, Millie’sWar is set in the 1980s, when a number of women attempted to join official ANZAC Day marches across Canberra to commemorate women raped in war. Fourteen women were arrested. The following year, again in Canberra, around 250 women attempted to join the tail of the official ANZAC Day march but were stopped by police. The police were acting under section 23A of the Traffic Ordinance, a section conveniently gazetted the day before the march.

Approximately 64 people, mainly women, were arrested and charged.

With this dramatic backdrop, Millie’s War is set largely in the boardroom of an RSL Club. When the sleepy local branch of this RSL meet with the women in order to dissuade them from upsetting their sacred parade of remembrance, the crotchety president of the RSL Club is appalled to find his own granddaughter is one of the feminists attempting to spoil their day. Tempers soon reach boiling point as each side argues the case for the importance of commemorating victims of war.