Robyn Tredwell interviewed by Nikki Henningham in the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4901016
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Tredwell, Robyn, 1950-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 2 sound files (ca. 195 min.)
- Series:
- Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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Robyn Tredwell talks about her family background; growing up on a farming property in Eudlo; Old Ted the swaggy; moving to town near Nambour for work; becoming a student nurse; developing a world view through contact with refugees, migrants and seasonal visitors; living in Mooloolaba (1960s); life in the nurses' home (1960s); moving to Cairns; working as a station cook; working with Aboriginal people on Gunnawarra; observing changes to life for Aboriginal people; going to New Zealand to work as a nurse and an Encyclopaedia salesperson; moving to Manchester, England for work (1970s); moving to Saudi Arabia to work as a neo-natal nurse; living and working in Saudi Arabia; the Saudi royal family; training nurse in Saudi Arabia; travelling to the Himalayas; preventative medicine; devising a health care program; running a clinic that used cleanliness, mega-vitamins, nutrition as the platform for improved health; illness and stress; importance of vitamin B; building a hotel in Tibet.
Tredwell speaks about the Institute of Ecotechnics; studying ethnobotany in the Amazon; studying botany in London and Paris; knowledge of cultures under threat; holistic healing; link between health and the environment; the reconstruction project at Birdwood Downs; the changing technological environment; running a theatre company from the property; holding an arts workshop program involving Kalahari Bushmen (1997); creating a space for cross cultural communication and sustainability; using management, science and artistic expression to create sustainability; winning the ABC Rural Woman of the year Award (1995); ABC's Landline program made on Birdwood Downs; her involvement in women's organisations; her concerns for the future if money becomes the only standard for production; her son; her health; going to Canberra for the award; having well established international networks; the common links across rural communities around the world.
- Biography/History:
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Robyn Treadwell, the CEO, Birdwood Downs, was selected as ABC Australian Rural Woman of the Year in 1995, in recognition of her contribution to knowledge about sustainable land management and agriculture in the Kimberlys.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 10 & 11 May 2010 in Derby, W.A.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (8 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 118 leaves).
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This belongs to the Rural Women of the Year Award oral history project.
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