Jane Keogh interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4223052
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Keogh, Jane, 1945-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2007
- 3 sound files (ca. 143 min.)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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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:
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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)
- Subject:
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- 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:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Jordens, Ann-Mari, 1940-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Until 2077 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2007
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