Joe Sarib interviewed by Diana Giese with Daryl Chin for the Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 172855
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Sarib, Joe, 1930-2016, 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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- 1997 Dec. 15
- 2 digital audio tapes (approx. 83 min.)
- Series:
- Post-war Chinese Australians oral history project.
- Summary:
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Sarib, Officer in Charge of Legislative Section, Dept. of Lands, Northern Territory Government and talented sportsman, speaks of how his father ran away from an abusive home and stowed away on a boat arriving in Darwin in 1880; how he worked as a manservant for Judges Roberts and Black later marrying into the Darwin Chinese community; how he grew up in this area where he was part of a boys' gang; how both his sisters and mother worked; how he later married into one of the oldest Chinese families in Darwin; how in Jan. 1942 the family evacuated Darwin sailing to their grandmother's in Perth on the 'Kalama'; an encounter with a Japanese submarine; how the evacuation was the best thing to happen to the family; his education in West Perth leading to technical college to learn the metal trade and carpentry and eventually working with plasterboard; later having his own shop to manufacture plasterboard; following the death of his mother returning with his father to Darwin in 1946, where he became a messenger for the Northern Territory Administration, later moving to the Lands where he moved up the hierarchy by sitting for internal exams.
Sarib discusses issues confronting the local Chinese claiming back land and businesses destroyed in the War and why Chinatown was not reestablished; his active participation in local sports such as football and basketball; how Land administration changed with self-government in 1978; working with Paul Everingham and Marshall Perron as NT Chief Ministers, addressing various land issues such as Aboriginal land rights and tourist developments; his own view of land rights and the current state of Australia.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on Dec. 15, 1997 in Darwin, N.T.
- Also available online https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-212654833
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary (typescript, 1 leave) and time-coded transcript available.
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