Flora Dempsey interviewed by Jack Sammon and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4468975
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Dempsey, Flora, 1924-, 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. 40 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Flora Dempsey, talks about her family background; her father's Indigenous heritage; her father being sponsored by Dempsey, his schooling and jockey training; her parent's marriage and her siblings; working on stations; her father's copper mine at what became Mt Isa and Carlton Hill; her father's droving trips; working on the station with her father; her childhood; shooting kangaroos with siblings, the pay; travelling in their Dodge car and wagonette; the family run mustering camp; the healthy lifestyle, bush tucker and station meat; droving sheep from Ardmore Station to the butchers; droving Victoria Downs bullocks; the family income and independence; learning to ride; horse tailing work; the contrast with modern Indigenous lifestyle; breaking and shoeing horses for the droving plant; holidays; kangaroo shooting trips, the demand for skins during WWII; her brother and father's horse breaking skills; her preference for ringing work; Geoffrey Blainey's history, "Mines in the Spinifex"; the decline in respect between races. Jack Sammon relates story of the good relationship between races on Alderley Station.
- Notes:
- Recorded on August 24, 2008 at Camooweal, Qld.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (2 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 42 leaves)
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2008
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