Kenneth Anderson interviewed by Mel Pratt for the Mel Pratt collection [sound recording]

Sir Kenneth Anderson, politician, talks of his early life at Ryde, Sydney; the Depression; the real estate business; Malayan campaign, World War II; land lines; Singapore; bombing of Darwin; treatment under the Japanese; Burma railway march; cholera and dysentery; Changi gaol; end of the war; land sales valuation; zoning; shortage of houses; Cumberland plan; statistics of "death railway" in Burma; Thai jungle; River Kwai; preselection to the Liberal State team; experience as a Senator; Public Works Committee; road safety; Transport Advisory Council; Bill Spooner; censorship; Tariff-Brussels nomenclature; Mr Markison; Mr Carmody; relations with Dept of Trade; John McEwan; customs policy; role of newspapers in politics; death of Harold Holt; McEwan and McMahon; Mr Gorton as Prime Minister; Woomera; ELDO; John Stonehouse; defeat of Gorton; function of the Leader of the Government in the Senate; Senator Gair; DLP; the Senate; NASA; messages left on the Moon; Pharmacy Guild; health in the Northern Territory; aboriginal children; common fee for general practitioners; nursing homes; disputation with the AMA; delegations and conferences.`