article_snippet.sent: In September 1916, the Sydney Twelve were arrested and tried for treason.
article_snippet.sent: Fifteen years for 15 words" was how one of the prisoners described his crime and punishment.
article_snippet.sent: The Australian Dictionary of Biography contains profiles of 174 anti-conscriptionists, many of whom went to jail, including Vida Goldstein's compatriots Adela Pankhurst and Jennie Baines.
article_snippet.sent: Baines was imprisoned for refusing to pay the fine she was issued for flying a red flag at Yarra Bank in 1918.
article_snippet.sent: she is reputedly the first Australian prisoner to go on a hunger strike.