Brian Davis interviewed by Lindsay Marshall and Malcolm McMillan in the Decades of Division oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5581276
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Davis, Brian John, 1934-2018, interviewee
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- Written permission required for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2011 Mar. 28
- 2 sound files (ca. 130 min.)
- Series:
- Decades of Division oral history project.
- Summary:
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Brian Davis discusses his early political influences and union involvement; joining the Labor Party and becoming active within Young Labor; his involvement with the Transport Workers' Union (TWU) and entry to state politics; his motivation for running in the 1963 state election; Labor Party factions; the influence of the DLP in the early 1960s; the lack of policy discussions at ALP branch and trade union meetings; activities leading up to election in 1969 as state MP for Brisbane; Johnno Mann; the instability within the Labor Party in the lead-up to the 1972 state election; Jack Egerton; Jack Houston; Joh Bjelke-Petersen; the anti-Whitlam climate at 1974 state election; the result of the 2011 New South Wales election and Labor Party's defeat; the impact of the Queensland gerrymander; the impact of the gerrymander on members of the Labor Party; personal ranking of state Labor Party leaders; Jack Houston; Perc Tucker; being defeated in 1974 and the circumstances of his return to elected politics at the 1977 state election; the origins of the reform group within the Queensland ALP in the mid-1970s; Peter Beattie; the 1980 state election; Ed Casey; the lead-up to the 1983 state election following the Coalition split; his decision to retire before the 1989 state election which took Labor to government in Queensland after 32 years; arrangements for a successor as Member for Brisbane Central; the difficulties of taking hard decisions in government; his views on the future of the Labor Party and its links with the trade union movement; the origin of the nickname "Digger" Davis.
- Notes:
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- This interview was conducted in association with the National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Branch and the Queensland Chapter of the Don Dunstan Foundation.
- Recorded on 28 March 2011 in Brisbane, Qld.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (6 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 77 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- State and Territory politicians
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