Merilyn Plant interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1302547
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Plant, Merilyn, 1946-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1995
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.) : analog, mono.
- Series:
- Women of the land oral history project.
- Summary:
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Plant speaks of what brought her to farming, starting the group Poll-Hers, her husband being a state president of the Poll Hereford Society, funding the recipe book about beef, promoting poll herefords and beef, involvement of her daughter in the breeding area, changes of ownership of farms and its effect on the younger generation, stress experienced by other families in the rural community, means used to encourage people to cheer up in times of hardship, lack of rain main problem, future of the beef industry and positive approach from the Army.
- Notes:
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- Part of a collection of 33 interviews with rural women for the book "Women of the land".
- Project conducted in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
- Has accompanying photograph.
- Recorded at Toowoomba, Qld. on Tuesday 14 February 1995.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 25 leaves.)
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This belongs to the Women of the land oral history project.
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- Until 2065 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1995
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