Grace Colbasso interviewed by Jon Ritchie in the Australian Generations pilot oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4458091
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Colbasso, Grace, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2008
- 3 sound files (ca. 160 min.)
- Series:
- Australian Generations pilot oral history project.
- Summary:
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Grace Colbasso speaks about her arrival in Australia (1951); Bonegilla camp; first memories in far north Queensland; moving to Melbourne, family buying house in West Preston; parents background; father's employment; siblings; schooling; neighbours and friends; racial issues, stereotypes; Anzac Day; television and cinema; meals, Catholicism and sectarianism; customs; football teams, Collingwood and Juventus; sport; her studies; Italian immigration; cultural traditions; Italian identity, Australian identity; her parents friends and social gatherings; wanting to be a nun from an early age; entering a convent (1966), a contemplative order, but not taking her final vows; modernity and tradition in the order; travelling and working overseas after leaving the order; the Whitlam dismissal; memories of childhood; learning to swim; Lygon Street, Carlton; Brunswick St; her consciousness of Italian internal relationships; Australian history; assimilation and standard of living; house and garden, food and wine production; social divisions in Melbourne, north of the river/south of the river divide; Aboriginal Australians; her intellectual life.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on July 31, 2008 and September 7, 2008 at Melbourne, Vic.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Detailed summary (15 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 186 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Ritchie, Jonathan, 1961-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Australian Generations pilot oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 2008
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