| Bib ID |
4223052 |
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Audio, Online [sound recording] , Online - Google Books |
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| Online Access |
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| Access Conditions |
Access open for research, personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
2007
3 sound files (ca. 143 min.)
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| Technical Details |
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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| Summary |
Jane Keogh talks about her early life; her schooling; entering the convent at sixteen; Brigidine Order; her early teaching experiences; convent life pre-Vatican II; moving to Brisbane (1966); becoming Principal in Narraweena and then Coonamble; studying at the University of California, Santa Barbara; how her studies influenced her work as a school principal; changes she has observed in Catholic education; parental intervention in teaching methods; why she left teaching in 2001; her reasons for being involved in refugee issues; organising community support for detainees in the Baxter Detention Centre; her research on Afghanistan; her visits to Baxter detention centre; deportations; supplying mobile phones to detainees; visitors rights.
Keogh speaks about the greatest source of suffering in detention centres; a traumatised Afghani Baxter detainee; helping with refugee applications; how this work changed her and other Australians; working with families from Nauru and deportees in Pakistan and Iraq; Australia's refugee policy; Department of Immigration's culture; deportations to China; refusal of asylum to Sri Lankans on Nauru; reasons for mandatory detention in remote centres; ethical problems; compensation for falsely detained refugees; project Safecom; Jack Smit; Pamela Curr; Susan Metcalf; Refugee Action Committee's petition; failure of activists to change Migration Act.; Christmas Island detention centre; family housing; Bridging Visas; home detention; Brigidine nuns; Anti-terrorism legislation; need for research on the prevention of terrorism through the work of refugee supporters.
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| Biography/History |
Jane Keogh was born 1945 in Epping, Sydney. In 1962 she entered the Brigidine Order and trained as a teacher. In 1971 she was appointed as Principal of St John's School Narraweena, N.S.W. She completed a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New England, before completing a Masters degree in holistic education at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the mid-1980s. She also completed a counselling course at the Sydney Counselling Institute, Strathfield, N.S.W. In 2001 she resigned from teaching and became involved in helping refugees and established a network of support for asylum-seekers in the Baxter Detention Centre. She currently assists Afghani refugees who have settled in Canberra, and some who have been deported to Pakistan.
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| Notes |
Recorded on September 20, 2007 at Canberra, A.C.T.
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Timed summary (5 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 55 leaves) |
| Subjects |
Keogh, Jane, - 1945- - Interviews. | School principals - Australia - Interviews. | Human rights workers - Australian Capital Territory - Canberra - Interviews. | Refugees - Australia - Government policy. | Afghans - Australia - Anecdotes. | Refugees - Australia - Anecdotes. | Detention of persons - Australia.
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| Occupation |
School principals. | Human rights workers. |
| Other authors/contributors |
Jordens, Ann-Mari, 1940-, Interviewer
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