Michele Turner interviewed by Wendy Lowenstein for the Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 389591
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Turner, Michele, 1952-1995, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1994 Mar. 11
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 20 min.)
- Series:
- Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project.
- Summary:
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Turner speaks about her early life growing up in Hobart, her experiences working with the Commonwealth Employment Service (CES) in Melbourne for 13 years, why she became deeply involved with the unemployed, eventually took one year leave from work to tape many of these unemployed people she had met at CES and from these interviews she produced her bestselling book Stuck, after she married she moved to Sydney where she undertook her most famous work Telling East Timor, an oral history of Timorese assistance to Australian soldiers during World War II and subsequent events, how she publicly denounced Gough Whitlam for failing to support Timor's struggle for independence against Indonesia, how she suffered psychologically from fears of aggravating the situation for the Timorese by exposing Indonesian atrocities, the impact on her family life.
- Biography/History:
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Michele Turner - author and public servant.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Mar. 11, 1994.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia ;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary available.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Lowenstein, Wendy, 1927-2006, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Communists and the Left in the arts and community oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 1994
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