Joan Alice Whetton interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens in the Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 85708
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Whetton, Joan (Joan Alice) 1917-2005, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1999
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 100 min.)
- Series:
- Bringing them home oral history project.
- Summary:
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Joan Whetton (d. 2005), a non-Indigenous professional social worker, speaks about a 1959 visit to the Northern Territory during which she did lay work at the Daly River Mission, and about her later work with the Catholic Family Welfare Bureau in New South Wales, the Darwin Catholic Missions and the Office of Aboriginal Affairs. Whetton also speaks about her work with the Bega Valley Aboriginal Advancement Association, official attitudes towards Aboriginal people during her employment in the Northern Territory in the late 1960s and attitudinal changes among social workers in the 1970s.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Queanbeyan, N.S.W. on Mar. 12-13, 1999.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218180030
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Timed summary available and corrected transcript (typescript, 57 leaves)
- Timed coded transcript available.
- Subject:
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- Whetton, Joan (Joan Alice) 1917-2005 -- Interviews
- Bega Valley Aboriginal Advancement Association
- Link-up (Organisation)
- Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- Northern Territory
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- New South Wales -- Bega Region -- Treatment
- Social workers -- Australia -- Interviews
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Northern Territory -- Treatment
- Aboriginal Australians -- New South Wales -- Bega Region -- Public welfare
- Other authors/contributors:
- Jordens, Ann-Mari, 1940-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Bringing them home oral history project.
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- Until 2069 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1999
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