Therese Collie interviews Ida Welsh (née Hamilton).

Ida talks of her early life and growing up in Grey Street, South Brisbane and as a child of a trade union leader and politician. Her father, William Hamilton, was involved in the shearers' strike of 1891 and later was a Labor member for Gregory in the Queensland Legislative Assembly (1899-1915); Workers Political Organisation; Jack Feeley; education at Brisbane Girls' Grammar and winning the Wight memorial music prize in 1917; Country Women's Association of Australia (CWA); her mother Mary Anne (née Mitchell) who grew up in New Caledonia and Longreach; Jack Feeley; her husband's grandfather William Pitt, Prime Minister of England; recognition of women by the Labor Party and the Industrial Workers of the World.