The bus was carrying 49 mostly teenage girls. It pulled up in front of Blamey barracks at Kapooka in New South Wales. The girls wrestled their suitcases off the bus. “We had to march in formation, which we didn’t know how to do, along narrow pathways, some of us wearing dresses and high heels,” says Eleanor Rush. “We got marched down to the mess hall for our first meal and the whole place went silent. In marched 49 women and there were a thousand men, recruits, having their dinner.”
In 1985, 49 mostly teenagers showed up at Kapooka to undertake the same army training as men for the first time in Australian history. This is the story of how they made it through
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