Therese Collie interviews Alice Hughes (née Anear). Alice was born 25 November 1918 in Charters Towers, Queensland. She talks about her early life in Chillagoe and her first involvement with the women's rights movement; her brother Dick Anear and the Communist Party; the formation of the Union of Australian Women; International Women's Day in Australia; Ivy Neilson (Innisfale Branch of the Communist Party); Trade Union movement on women's issues; Labor governments; the International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions on equal pay; The Meat Worker’s Reform Committee; Quentin Bryce and the Office of Status of Women; and the current state of the women's movement.

Interview continues on Reel 9: Interview with Alice Hughes and Ivy Neilson, Grange, Brisbane, 25 Nov 1991 (UQFL300, Series A, Item 4).

Interview continues from Reel 8, Interview with Alice Hughes, Grange, Brisbane, 25 Nov 1991 UQFL300, Series A, Item 3). Alice Hughes is joined by her friend Ivy Neilson, who was the secretary of the Innisfale Branch of the Communist Party. Ivy talks of her early life growing up in a militant family in Queensland; Alice and Ivy talk about the Communist Party's political school they both attended in Alexandra Headlands in 1945; their relationship with their husbands and their resentment to the women's political activities; working relationship between women and men in the Communist Party; and sexual harassment in the meat industry.

Interviews on 32 micro cassette tapes, conducted between 1996 and 1997 by Harry Spratt with former members of the Queensland Branch of the Communist Party of Australia while undertaking a research degree at Griffith University. Interviewees are: Claude Jones, Jim Henderson, Ivan (Jack) Ivanoff, Paul Norton, Doug Eaton, Dick Annear, Alice Hughes, and Jack Pemberthy.