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Julie Burdis interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 3425926
Format AudioAudio, OnlineOnline [sound recording]
Author
Burdis, Julie, 1943-, Interviewee
 
Online Versions
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 2005 
1 digital audio tape (ca 63 min.) 
Series

Drovers oral history project.

Summary

Julie Burdis, discusses her family life and background; moving to Alice Springs from Victoria and England; love of the desert; how stations treated animals; alcohol; tourists; treatment of Aborigines; Ayers Rock; Flying Doctor radio; deaths; tourism and tourist activities; pub; fundraising; wages; Uluru Motel; her role in the community; flies; drought; dingoes; Yorkshire; working at Curtin Springs; mouse plague; food supply; gender roles.

Notes

Recorded on April 07, 2005 at Alice Springs, N.T.

Also available online at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.oh-vn3425926

Index/Finding Aid Note Corrected transcript (typescript, 42 leaves)  Timed summary (3 p.) 
Subjects Burdis, Julie, - 1943- - Interviews.  |  Rural women - Northern Territory - Interviews.  |  Frontier and pioneer life - Northern Territory.  |  Tourism - Australia, Central - Anecdotes.
Other authors/contributors Simpson, Bruce (Bruce Forbes), 1923-, Interviewer  |  Gammage, Bill, 1942-, Interviewer

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ORAL TRC 5440/17
Copy: Recording
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
ORAL TRC 5440/17 (summary)
Copy: Summary
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
ORAL TRC 5440/17 (transcript)
Copy: Transcript
Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)

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