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Peter Wong interviewed by Diana Giese [sound recording]
Bib ID 830188
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Wong, Peter, 1942-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 2001 
4 digital audio tapes (ca. 260 min.) 
Series

Chinese Australian Oral History Partnership.

Summary

Wong, a physician, member of the Unity Party, state politician, speaks about his childhood when his family fled Communist China for Djakarta to save his father, how he was taught to be heroic and stand up for principles and justice in difficult times, the politics of Communist China and Indonesia and liberates the masses at the expense of demeaning the individual, Chinese in Indonesia see themselves as better cultured, moral and ethical, good in business, his father's work with refugees as a doctor and treating the poor for free, how he was sent to Australia in 1960 to start in 4th year secondary school, at university first studied Pharmacy and Engineering but actually wanted to do Medicine, his understanding of the interconnection between Western and Eastern medicinal traditions, recognition of overseas doctors' qualifications, transmission of successful cardiac surgerical knowledge using the Heart to Heart project, his role as founder of the Australian Chinese Charity Foundation which funded Mt. Druitt City Mission Aftercare Centre as well as resettlement of Cambodian Boat People.

Wongs speaks of Australia's refusal to recognise human rights of minorities such as Aborigines, Asians and refugees, refugee applicants very small and not threatening Australia, diminishing services to legal migrants particularly in education and counselling, Australia's image in the world, higher immigration to regional Australia is needed, formation of the Unity Party and its policies to promote ethnic communities, election strategies for Party candidates, his role as founder of the Chinese Catholic Community a layman's organisation which hires its priests and nuns and listen to their conscience rather than the Pope, how he sees his career not in politics but in providing direct care, the future of Australian politics such as greater conservatism, smaller government, less services, more privatisation and globalisation, minority representation in the upper houses is symptomatic of major parties' disregard for rural Australia.

Notes

Recorded on Mar. 5 & 9, 2001 in Sydney, N.S.W.

User access copy made.

Index/Finding Aid Note Timed summary (5 p.) and completed transcript (typescript, 108 leaves) 
Subjects Wong, Peter, - 1942- - Interviews.  |  Unity Party.  |  Australian Chinese Charity Foundation.  |  Chinese Australians - Interviews.  |  Physicians - Australia - Interviews.  |  Politicians - New South Wales - Interviews.  |  Civil rights - Australia.  |  Civil rights - Government policy - Australia.  |  Refugees - Australia - Treatment.  |  Australia - Emigration and immigration - Government policy.
Other authors/contributors Giese, Diana, 1947-, Interviewer

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