Herb Laughton interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3423828
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Laughton, Herb, 1927-, 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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- 2005
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 55 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Herb Laughton speaks about his Indigenous and Russian heritage; walking from Jay Creek Aboriginal reserve into an institution, Alice Springs; the Stolen Generation; living in the institution during the Depression, short rations, abuse, living conditions; his schooling; Woodgreen Station; working on stations for rations, no pay; Uncle Wogai; station work, horse-breaking; working at Stapleton's Station near Darwin; contract mustering; working as deckhand on pearling lugger, surviving a cyclone at sea; returning to Alice Springs; the changes to cattle industry in his absence; writing songs; Slim Dusty; Buddy Williams; Tex Morton; participating in Tamworth Country Music Festival; modern country music; audiences returning to traditional country music; his sources of inspiration for country songs; teaching Alice Springs High School students about the history and traditions of the bush; Superintendents Freeman and Jones; the treatment of Indigenous children forced to work on stations; children of mixed descent; punishments and abuse; the separation from his mother; running away from station life; working at an airport; Amy Johnson; travelling to South Australia to meet his mother and being refused entry back in N.T without a pass; working in fruit orchard at Peterborough, S. Aust.; working on the dingo proof fence in S. Aust; stowing away on an army troop train back into N.T.; story of parents' marriage and separation; his mother's tribal and family background; learning tribal law from his parents while living with them; memorising traditional knowledge, boundaries, clan connections and languages; the decline in traditional Aboriginal tribal knowledge and cultural education; visiting his natural father.
- Notes:
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- Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are advised that this recording may contain names and voices of deceased persons.
- Recorded on Apr. 03, 2005 at Alice Springs, N.T.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221276656
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 40 leaves) available.
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Drovers
- Other authors/contributors:
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2005
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