This is the Life. Australia And Your Future No 2.

From the Film Australia Collection of the National Film and Sound Archive. Made by the National Film Board 1947. Directed by Catherine Duncan. This is the Life describes the daily lives of single working women employed in industry in Australia in the 1940s. Young women are shown beginning the day in their homes, then cycling or taking a tram to the Returned Soldiers Mill in Geelong, Victoria - a thriving textile centre. We see them in the mill environment then, work done, enjoying their leisure - dancing, playing sport, hiking and shopping. The film also outlines the pay, sick leave and holiday conditions to which the women are entitled.