Ivor Knight interviewed by Christine Choo in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5383893
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Knight, I. A. (Ivor Alan) 1934-, 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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- 2011
- 3 sound files (ca. 345 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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Ivor Knight was born in Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia. He talks about: his home and nine siblings; neglect; Child Welfare Department; removal to Castledare; Christian Brothers; separation from family; his parents; New Norcia; Glentromi Station; Agricultural School in Tardun; Director of Child Welfare Department; Children's Court; child grooming; living conditions and treatment in Clontarf; institutionalisation; corporal punishment; WWII; child migrants; employment on sheep and cattle stations; Australian Navy; Aboriginal Australians; marriage and children; trade unionism; his memoir Out of Darkness; career in the Prison Service; prisoners and conditions in the prisons; family's drug problems; Slater & Gordon class action, apology and compensation; education; retirement; become Justice of the Peace; joining pistol clubs; WA Retired Prison Officers Association; life role models; Bringing Them Home; Patrick Dodson; and his reflections on his life experiences.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 14, 21 and 28 June 2011, at Bassendean, Perth, W.A.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (13 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Prison officers
- Other authors/contributors:
- Choo, Christine, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
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- Sound Recording
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