Colin Broad interviewed by Rob Linn [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3603896
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Broad, Colin, 1921-
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2005
- 2 sound files (ca. 134 min.)
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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Colin Broad talks about his family background; his memories of the Depression; his education at Broken Hill, NSW, and Manoora, SA; meeting Sir Sidney Kidman and his Aboriginal workers; Afghan acquaintances; his siblings; gaining his qualifying certificate (shearing); the 'rocker' shearing machine; shearing and moving from property to property with his brothers; wages; crutching huge flocks of sheep along the dingo fence; shearing rams; accidents; learning bush craft from the Aboriginal Archie McKenzie and his family; working with his brothers and their use of Aboriginal friends as hands in the sheds; the annual cycle moving from Cultana Station on Eyre Peninsula and working their way up country; meals; the war years; purchasing 'The Homestead' at Booborowie; his reasons for buying the property; his sentiments about governments and politicians and deception.
Broad disusses how their shearing business carried on until after the war; droving all over Australia; learning to buy and sell livestock around the nation; the flush of the early 1950s and the large price of wool; his interest in cattle and how he learnt about them; his experiences with the skills of stockmen, particularly Aborigines; learning about where to find feed and water; making money out of stock deals in the early 1950s; Alice Springs; rogues and swindlers; taking up butchering in Burra by reclaiming a large debt and getting the business; building a new slaughter house; apprenticeships, unions and the police force; his philosophy in the shop and how he regarded his customers; working with the local skin and hide merchant; identifying sheep; trucking cattle; stock deals during droughts; using his butcher's business to get skin value; taming wild bulls; bush tricks; dealing with wild stallions and brumbies; the break up of his partnership with his brother; his beliefs about animals and their instincts; marrying his wife May (1950) and the circumstances of their meeting.
- Notes:
- Recorded on November 10, 2005 at Brighton, S. Aust.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 77 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Linn, Rob, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Until 2075 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2005
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