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Interview transcripts for study of agricultural properties in the Condamine - Maranoa basin

  • F3872
  • File
  • 1972-1973

Interview transcripts used in the study of agricultural properties in six shires of the Condamine-Maranoa basin in Southern Queensland. Transcripts mostly have the name of the property owner, the property name, the date of the interview, the soil type and who the interviewer was. Interviews could include: a description of the property, management, grazing crops, machinery, stock, labour. Interviewers were E.J. Weston, C.N. Nason and R.D.H. Armstrong. The results were published by the Queensland Department of Primary Industries in 1975. Property names include: Barabool, Boongalla, Southwood, Moonie, Tarcoola, Cobbareena, Blackdown, Woodlands, Booroondoo, Barrapool, Wongabel, Merino Downs, Coonardoo, Alvalea, Aurifer Downs, Wongabel, Ventura, Collingwood, Rockdale, Gambier Park, Cambridge Downs, Brucedale, Arubial, Erinvale / Erin vale, Enarra, Rippon Lea, Burradoo, Miamba, Retreat, Canmaroo, Naturi, Berwick, Newstead, Rolston, Banoona, Tinowon, Yulebar, Dugan, Erindale, and Binnowee.

Nason, Charles N.

Interview with Alice Hughes, Grange, Brisbane

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 with Bessie Lymburner

Therese Collie interviews Bessie Lymburner, born in 1919 in Patana (Wenlock), Cape York.

Bessie talks about her early life in Palm Island and Townsville; working as a nurse and for the settlement Matron and Superintendent; housing; her husband Eric Lymburner's involvement in the Palm Island strike of 1957 where him and others protested againsts the injustices of living under the act; Second World War; her children; her concerns about Aboriginal health and Comalco Mining; Aboriginal people and women.

Interview with Connie Healy

Therese Collie interviews Connie Healy. Constance (Connie) Healy grew up in Brisbane. She worked for the Waterside Workers' Federation, and, from the 1930s, became heavily involved with the Unity/New Theatre and the Communist Party of Australia. After the second World War, which claimed the life of her first husband, she married prominent Queensland union leader, Mick Healy. Her interest in theatre and her involvement in political activity continued throughout the postwar decades. She was particularly active in the struggle for justice for Aboriginal people. (Information from Connie Healy Collection, UQFL191, Fryer Library, The University of Queensland Library).

Connie talks of her early life and working life; the Unity/New Theatre; Waterside Workers' Union, she was Ted Englardt's secretary; joining the Communist Party of Australia; Clerks' Union and Bank Officers' Association; her husband Mick Healy; Secretary of the Eureka Youth League; Daisy Marcositi; prominent political figures like Max Julius, Brian Fitzpatrick, Paul Robeson, and Sir Hewlitt Johnson; and her views of the current issues for women.

Interview with Elena Timms

Therese Collie interviews Elena Timms (née Raccanello) born in 1941 in Stanthorpe.

Elena talks about her parents, who were Italian migrants; her experiences of growing up in Stanthorpe as a child of migrants; her and her fathers involvement in the peace and anti-war movements; working in an aluminium tube factory in Port Kembla in 1963 and school cleaner and trade unions; Federated Miscellaneous Workers' Union of Australia and Trades and Labor Council; women labor union members.

Interview with Frances Bishop

Therese Collie interviews Francis Bishop, born in Brisbane in 1918.

Francis talks of her early life growing up in Brisbane in a Liberal family; joining the Communist Party and Union of Australian Women, and her involvement with both organisations; her husband Frank, who was the Communist Party Secretary of the Townsville area; Labor Day marches in Brisbane; her opinion on the changes in political activity over the years and lack of interest in unions and the Labor Party; women's issues and work for women's rights; Flo Milburn and Betty Clason.

Interview with Ian Ferrier

  • F3745
  • File
  • 1999

Audiocassette tape of interview (01 hr., 25 min., 57 sec.) : analog, 2 track.) with American-born Queensland architect (Alexander) Ian Ferrier (1928-2000) on 30 May 1999. Present at the interview: Ian Ferrier, Mercier Ferrier, Fiona Gardiner and Alice Hampson. Ian Ferrier talks about his life and career. Accompanied by notes (2 pages) and photocopy of sketchbook (43 pages).

Gardiner, Fiona (Fiona Joy)

Interview with Jack and Pat Johnston about their brother George Henry Johnston

  • F3143
  • File
  • 1980

Four sound cassettes, typescript transcript (159 l.; photocopy), with introductory note by Chester Eagle. Contents: Jack and Pat Johnston speak of the writings of their brother, George; the Johnston family; the characters in George Johnston's books; early recollections of George; the Depression Years; World War II; and characters in his books as compared to those in his real life. Recorded on July 29 and August 20, 1980.

Johnston, Jack

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