1. A particularly useful reference on this period is Australian Historical Studies (1997(, 27/28, 109 (Melbourne: University of Melbourne), entitled The Forgotten Fifties: aspects of Australian society and culture in the 1950s. On implications for women, see SummersAnne Damned Whores and God's Police PenguinMelbourne1975especially chapter 13, Suburban Neurotics?; Patricia Grimshaw, Marilyn LakeMcGrathAnnQuartlyMarian Creating a Nation McPhee GribbleMelbourne1994especially chapter 11, Freedom, Fear and the Family; James Walter (2001) Designing Families and Solid Citizens: the dialectic of modernity and the Matrimonial Causes Bill, 1959, Australian Historical Studies, 116, pp. 40-56.
2. Churches of all major denominations took the role of ‘protector of family life and moral guardian of youth’.HilliardDavidGod in the Suburbs: the religious culture of Australian cities in the 1950s Australian Historical Studies 971994399419
3. MurphyJohn Imagining the Fifties: private sentiment and political culture in Menzies' Australia UNSW Press/Pluto PressSydney2000218for a useful discussion of definitions of the ‘fifties’
4. MacKenzieNorman Women in Australia: a report to the Social Science Research Council of Australia CheshireMelbourne1962
5. The percentage of all married women in the workforce rose from 8% in 1947 to over 12% in 1954, over 17% in 1961 and nearly 27% in 1966. The figures for women in the 25-40 age group, i.e. those likely to have young children, were slightly higher rather than lower than the total figures. EncelS.MacKenzieM.TebbuttM. Women and Society: an Australian study CheshireMelbourne19747475