- Bib ID:
- 2135608
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Cameron, Donald Newton, 1914-1998, 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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- 1988 Apr
- 4 audio cassettes (ca. 188 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- Parliament's oral history project.
- Summary:
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Cameron speaks about family background; working as a shearer; organiser for Australian Workers Union; 1956 shearing strike; Tom Dougherty; election as Union secretary in 1964; 1955 Labor Party split; Frank Walsh; running for the Senate; Senate operations; parliamentary life; his opposition to the Vietnam War; State President of the Labor Party; parliamentary colleagues; McMahon government; Senate committees; 1972 election; Medibank; 1974 double dissolution; Rex Connor; dismissal of Whitlam government; Inter-Parliamentary Union; retirement from Senate.
- Biography/History:
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Cameron was Senator for South Australia for the Labor Party from October 1969 to June 1978.
- Notes:
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- Parliament's oral history project is an ongoing project administered by the Australian Parliamentary Library focussing on retired parliamentarians and their political careers.
- Recorded at Woodville North, South Australia on 6 and 12 April 1988.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218024190
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
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- Time-coded transcript available.
- Digitised corrected transcript available (53 pages).
- Corrected transcript (71 pages) available.
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 1988
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