Rod Macnamara interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4468775
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Macnamara, Rod, 1937-, 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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- 2008
- 1 sound file (ca. 53 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Rod Macnamara discusses his family life and background; family property; boarding school; droving with father at 17; droving trips; stock routes; droving teams; drovers strikes; strike breakers; power of large companies; contract prices; Vestey Brothers; Murranji; poisonous plants, poisoned cattle, goats; bad weather; bronco branding; equipment; indigenous stockmen; camp cook stories; droving skills; decline in experience; modern practices; work conditions; stockmen; jackaroos, jillaroos.
- Notes:
- Recorded on August 19, 2008 at Cloncurry, Qld.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Corrected transcript (typescript, 57 leaves)
- Timed summary (3 p.).
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Until 2078 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2008
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