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Jane Keogh interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording]
Bib ID 4223052
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline [sound recording]
Author
Keogh, Jane, 1945-, Interviewee
 
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Description 2007 
3 sound files (ca. 143 min.) 
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 

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.

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.

Notes

Recorded on September 20, 2007 at Canberra, A.C.T.

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.
Occupation School principals.  |  Human rights workers.
Other authors/contributors Jordens, Ann-Mari, 1940-, Interviewer

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