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Marjory Bollinger interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 1297603
Format AudioAudio
Author
Bollinger, Marjory, 1942-
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1995. 
1 sound cassette (ca. 43 min.) : analog, mono. 
Series

Women of the land oral history project

Summary

Marje Bollinger, a farmer, speaks of her background, her childhood, working with her father in the corner store and delivering the goods with him, working as a farmer, breeding goats, involvement in the mohair industry and the dairy goat industry, marketing goat milk, Ross River fever, hardship, bushfires, her son involved in a car accident, forming the Highway Safety Action Group as a result, her involvement with the alternative compliance scheme which is self-regulation of the heavy vehicle industry, being a mediator between road transport companies and the RTA, her active participation within the committee.

Notes

Part of a collection of 33 interviews with rural women for the book "Women of the land".

Project conducted in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Has accompanying photograph.

Recorded at Orange, N.S.W. on Wednesday 22 March 1995.

DCM record; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Index/Finding Aid Note Transcript available (typescript, 26 leaves) 
Subjects Bollinger, Marjory, - 1942- - Interviews.  |  Highway Safety Action Group.  |  Rural women - Australia - Interviews.  |  Rural women - Australia - Social conditions.  |  Women in agriculture - Australia.  |  Goats - Breeding - New South Wales.  |  Mohair industry - Australia.  |  Goat's milk - Marketing.  |  Molong (N.S.W.) - Biography.
Other authors/contributors Bowden, Ros  |  Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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