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Monica Attard interviewed by Barry York for the Maltese Australian folklife and social history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 2713618
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Attard, Monica (Monica Ann), 1958-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. 
Description 1999 
2 digital audio tapes (ca. 130 min.) 
Series

Maltese Australian folklife and social history project.

Summary

Recorded on Mar. 29, 1999 in Sydney.

Monica Attard, a journalist, speaks of her childhood and upbringing as the daughter of working class migrant parents; growing up in Strathfield in Sydney lacking many non-Anglo immigrants where she encountered considerable prejudice and discrimination; how she got into broadcast journalism by starting in 1979 as a cadet with Fairfax then later with 2WS and then following a 2 year stint seeing the world she was with 2GB; how she completed her Bachelor of Arts majoring in psychology while working part-time with the ABC's new department; later she moved to 2JJJ-FM; her eventual return to mainstream ABC current affairs as a reporter for "AM", "The World Today" and "PM"; her work on Four Corners and Lateline on ABC-TV; how she was posted to Moscow in 1990; returning to Australia in 1994 she became a presenter on "PM" and her current work is now with "The World Today"; her personal life and identity, some of the highlights of her career; the impact of living in Russia and watching the collapse of the old Communist regime and the impact on the Russian people.

Notes

Not yet preserved.

Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

Index/Finding Aid Note Summary available (1 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 51 leaves) 
Subjects Attard, Monica - (Monica Ann), - 1958- - Interviews.  |  Journalists - Australia - Interviews.  |  Soviet Union - Economic conditions - 1985-1991.
Occupation Journalists.
Other authors/contributors York, Barry, 1951-, Interviewer

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