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Interview with Jean Bowden, [Morningside, Brisbane?]

Therese Collie interviews Jean Bowden, an active member of the Australian Telephone and Phonogram Officers Association (ATPOA). In this interview, Bowden talks about her early life growing up on the Maroochy River where her father was a sugarcane grower; her school years; her first job at the Gympie telephone exchange and being encouraged by her father to join the union; boarding at the Convent in Gympie; working at the Nambour and Yeronga telephone exchanges; joining ATPOA; her involvement in the campaign to have the Bill that barred the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service; Joyce Williams (Secretary of ATPOA); and her involvement with ATPOA.

Interview with Susie Dickson

Therese Collie interviews Susie Dickson.

Susie talks of her early life growing up in Blackpool, England, with a single mother, who came from a strong socialist family; high school education and teachers college; her first teaching job in Manchester, being evacuated, with her school, to Blackpool during the second World War; matron of a home for boys with mental disability during the war; teachers union; reasons for joining the Communist Party; emigrating to Australia in 1957 with her husband Ian and four children; first impressions of Townsville and Queensland; the formation of a branch of the Local Government Women's Association (LGWA) in Townsville by Lady Jessie Groom; being Chairman of LGWA, other women involved in the association; working for the Prisoner's Aid Society; LGWA folding after 11 years and its activities over the years; working on an oral history project, for Margaret Reynolds office, on women who've been involved in the labour movement in north Queensland; being the first female juror in Townsville in the 1960's; working as a tutor for Aborigine and Torres Strait Islander students at the Boys Grammar in Townsville.

The right to march

A series of videos which outline the 1977 protest action against the banning of political street marches in Queensland by Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen. The University of Queensland Union was responsible for this filming; Bruce Dickson was one of the filmmakers.

Tape 1: First forum on civil liberties, 6 Sep 1977
Tape 2: QU forum on civil liberties, 6 Sep 1977
Tape 3: QU civil liberties march, 22 Sep 1977
Tape 4: QU street march and King George Square rally, 12 Oct 1977
Tape 5: Anti-uranium rally and street march, 22 Oct 1977
Tape 6: QU civil liberties rally and march, 3 Dec 1977

Dickson, Bruce

Personal papers

Folder containing assorted personal papers of Alexander Rose Macdonald, including handwritten notes on North Queensland, newspaper cuttings relating to his career, correspondence, a sketch map of plantations and mills in Mackay dated 1887, reports on the Pacific Islanders' Fund and Hospitals dated 1888, copy will and 2 obituaries. One letter dated December 1903 appears to be a copy in the hand of Nancy Armitage.

Macdonald, Alexander Rose

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