Ruth Hegarty interviewed by Lyn McLeavy in the Bringing Them Home after the Apology oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5040152
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hegarty, Ruth, 1929-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 2 sound files (ca. 137 min.)
- Series:
- Bringing Them Home after the Apology oral history project.
- Summary:
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Ruth Hegarty reflects on her first interview and then speaks about her books Bittersweet Journey and Is that You Ruthie?; the book on Cherbourg dormitory boys; her dreams as a young woman; the dreams of her late husband as a young man; family history and research; her work with Banambi Baramba Camp; Stolen Wages and the Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Advisory Board; the Queensland Government Redress Scheme; the Cherbourg Dormitory Boys' Counselling Reunion; the Cherbourg Dormitory Girls' Reunion; Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's apology to the Stolen Generations; the Intervention (Northern Territory National Emergency Response); the need for a Treaty; a Referendum on Constitutional Recognition of the Indigenous Peoples of Australia as First Peoples of the Nation; multiculturalism; her family, family identity and Aboriginality; storytelling; Queensland Great 2010; her 80th birthday; the Camp calendar; her hopes and plans for the future.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 17 December 2010 in Brisbane, Qld.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.)
- Subject:
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- Hegarty, Ruth, 1929- -- Interviews
- Apology to the Stolen Generations of Australia (2008 : Canberra)
- Women, Aboriginal Australian -- Interviews
- Women authors, Australian -- Interviews
- Apologies -- Australia
- Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Institutional care -- Queensland
- Aboriginal Australians, Treatment of
- Occupation:
- Authors
- Other authors/contributors:
- McLeavy, Lyn, 1948-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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