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- 11 Nov 1991 (Creation)
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3 open reel audiotapes (1hr., 13 min.) : analog, 2 track.
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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.
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Reels 26-28
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Unrestricted access.
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- English
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Previously housed in Box 1, Reel 26, 27 and 28.
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- Dickson, Susie, 1915- (Subject)
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Revised
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Revised, Linda Justo, 20-Jul-2021. Created from UQ eSpace record data, Amanda Main, 22-Nov-2019