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.

Therese Collie interviews Jeannie O'Connor born in 1920 in Nambour.

Therese Collie interviews Joyce Murphy and Ivy Willey (née Morgan) on the history of Ipswich and West Moreton Miners' Women's Auxiliary of the Queensland Colliery Employees Union (QCEU) and their involvement with the Auxiliary and QCEU.

Therese Collie interviews Loma Thompson, born in 1922 in Lismore, Victoria.

Loma talks of her early life in Camberdown and Colac, and her parents; leaving school at 14 or 15 years old; training to be a nurse at Geelong and joining the Student Nurses' Association, and later the Professional Division of the Hospital Employees' Union; moving to North Queensland in 1948; meeting her husband Fred Thompson at a Communist Party meeting; joining the Communist Party in 1944 and why she joined; working for the Legion of Ex-Servicemen; Union of Australian Women (UAW); Freds work and his involvement with the Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU), Loma being a founding member of the AEU Women's Committee; 1964/65 dispute at Mt Isa Mines and the work that the Women's Committee did; returning to the workforce at the age of 49 and the changes in the workforce for women since she last time she worked; her involvement with Kindergarten Headstart; child care; some issues faced by women today; activities, politically or otherwise, she is involved in now, and her family being involved in arts activities as a political tool of communication.

Therese Collie interviews Marie Crisp. Marie Crisp worked in the metal trades during the second World War, joined the Vehicle Builders Union, Federated Miscellaneous Workers Union and Queensland Council of Unions, and was a member of the Communist Party of Australia and the Union of Australian Women. She was a lifelong campaigner for the rights of women workers and Aboriginal people.

Marie talks of her early life growing up in Murwillumbah (New South Wales) and central Queensland; working at Monto hospital and being a member of the Australian Workers' Union; moving to Brisbane during the second World War and working at Ford; Amalgamated Electrical Union and Metal Trades Union; joining the the Miscellaneous Workers' Union; being a member of the Communist Party and Union of Australian Women; the rights of women workers and Aboriginal people.

Elizabeth Smith interviews Oodgeroo Noonuccal at Moongalba 11 May 1990 for an article to accompany Smith's book review of 'Kath Walker in China' in Queensland Writer vol. 2 no. 1 1990. Sound cassette is accompanied by typescript transcript (11 p.) which is a fuller version than the one published in Queensland Writer.

Therese Collie interviews Pat Bowe, born in Herberton, Queensland in 1938. In 1991 she was in teachers staffing, having previously been a teacher and principal.

Bowe talks of her family, moving around Queensland due to her fathers job at BHP (tin exploration); her education including going to primary school during the second World War at Innot Hot Springs; being female in the 1950's and having a tertiary education with the help of her family; her father being a member of the union and Labor Party; being influenced by her family; union activities in Queensland and being the only female at meetings; equal/women's rights in the education field; some of the locations she was a Principal at - Horseshoe Bay on Magnetic island, Homestead, Hayman island, Majors Creek, and Long Pocket; discrepancy between single and married women's conditions or opportunities; her experiences teaching in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities; lessons learnt from her experience working in remote Queensland schools and as a woman; her work with the Teachers' Union - State Standing Committee of the Union and State Accommodation Committee, and how her work with the committees affected her job as a teacher; what the Queensland Teachers' Union has done for its women members, what it has achieved, and current issues; how far women teachers have come; and where her dedication to keep on fighting and struggling for better conditions for teachers, and for equal opportunities for women.

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.

Therese Collie interviews Vi Cox.

Vi talks of her early life growing up in Townsville and going to school during the second World War at Bohlevale State School; her husband Norrie Cox and his family, the Australian Railways Union; joining the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and supporting Norrie in his union activities; the difficulties women face when it came to women's issues like rape; issues she and other women in the ALP fought for; how she first became involved in the ALP and her 2 year role as secretary for the Currajong branch; her views on why ALP isn't attracting young people and what needs to be done, and what the ALP has done for women; her dedication to ALP; and her advice for young people and younger women.

Seven audiocassettes of interviews: Eddie Hayes, Louis Hailey, Don Winsen, Stuart McIntosh, James Birrell and Judith McKay. Architects Eddie Hayes, Louis Hailey, Don Winsen, Stuart McIntosh, and James Birrell interviewed by Don Watson and/or Alice Hampson. Final interview is Sue Tate interviewing Judith McKay regarding exhibition 'The Flower Painting of Ellis Rowan'.