The Listening Post - first two decades due for release

The official organ of the League in WA is ‘the Listening Post’ and on August the 3^rd we will be releasing the first two decades of the publication, from December 1921 to December 1939 online. Over the next few weeks we will be focussing this blog on what the Listening Post collection features during the 1920s and 1930s.

The Listening Post was recognised as a means with which to promote the work of the League and to promote veteran entitlements.  Kalgoorlie Sub Branch wrote in 1922 January edition of the Listening Post that ‘returned men must be shown that their obvious duty is to join the League and that there is little doubt that the Listening Post can do great work in this direction’.

The publication of the Listening Post was also a means of promoting veteran repatriation schemes, ensuring that veterans were aware of entitlements.  Policies such as Repatriation, War Service Homes Act, War Gratuity were summarised in an article appearing in the December 1925 issue of the Listening Post.   Details on Commonwealth entitlements were published in the hopes that ‘by the Leagues’s influence, no ex-soldier shall remain ignorant of the privileges which a sympathetic Parliament intended he should enjoy’.