Kath Kelly interviewed by Barry York in the China Maytime Festival Tour 1971 oral history project
- Bib ID:
- 6219296
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Kelly, Kath, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research; closed for personal copies until December 2014; written permission required for public use.
- Description:
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- 2013
- 1 sound file (approximately 111 min.)
- Series:
- China Maytime Festival Tour 1971 oral history project.
- Summary:
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Kath Kelly talks about her childhood; schooling; student groups in South Australia; her beliefs; working at General Motors Holden; developing her political views; moving to Melbourne and meeting with Darce Cassidy; The Bakery; her involvement with people in the Monash Labor Club; life in the early 1970s; publishing leaflets and newspapers; her involvement in demonstrations; her thoughts on Albert Langer; Maoism; Communist Party Australia (Marxist-Leninist); Builders Labourers Federation; Norm Gallagher; Waterside Workers Federation; Clarrie O'Shea; Ted Hill; Ted Bull; her trip to China; the ‘Yellow Peril’ in Australia; Karl Armstrong; interpreters; meeting with Zhou Enlai; wharves and textile mill; May Day; Lin Biao; Peking Opera; returning to Australia; nursing; Maggie Grant; nurse protests; politics; Gough Whitlam; being a Shop Steward in a factory; political activism; working as a midwife at McMahon Hospital; Central Australia; Indigenous Australians; Environmental Science; Anti-Nuclear movement; talks about her marriage and family life; Pol Pot and Cambodia; Worker-Student Alliance; Greens Party; Aboriginal Affairs; Australian Conservation Foundation; the Greens; separation from her husband; visiting Palestine; Australians for Justice and Peace in Palestine; studying deliberative democracy; coal mine court case; Alpha Coal Mine; her thoughts on China today; Human Rights; and fanaticism.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 14 March 2013 at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, A.C.T.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 pages)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- York, Barry, 1951-, interviewer
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This belongs to the China Maytime Festival Tour 1971 oral history project.
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- 2013
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