Coke Tomyn interviewed by Aron Paul in Rusted on - grassroots activists within Australia’s political parties oral history project
- Bib ID:
- 6293997
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Tomyn, Coke, 1947-, interviewee
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- Description:
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- 2013
- 1 sound file (approximately 106 min.)
- Series:
- Rusted on - grassroots activists within Australia’s political parties oral history project.
- Summary:
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Coke Tomyn talks about his Ukrainian family background; WWII; his parents; arriving in Australia; his schooling and education; his career in law; Young Liberals; Liberal Party of Australia; his marriage; his wife; 1954 Royal Visit; 1960s; the Whitlam Government; the 1975 Dismissal; Malcolm Fraser; the Orange Revolution in Ukraine; lobbying and campaign work; Petro Georgiou; refugee policy; his thoughts on the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation); unions and unionism; his role as a businessman; climate change.
- Notes:
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- This interview is part of a joint oral history project conducted by the National Library of Australia and the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House.
- Recorded on 12 June 2013 in Melbourne, Victoria.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 pages)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Lawyers
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- 2013
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