Margaret Giddy interviewed by Rob Willis in the Australian Centre for Paralympic Studies oral history project [sound recording]

Margaret Giddy, born in Sydney (1939), describes growing up in the suburb of Haberfield; being involved in sports at school; leaving school and working for an insurance company; being involved in netball, tennis and physical culture; a description of physical culture exercises; marriage (1960) and moving to Kempsey; children; joining a sports club to better assimilate into country life; the break-up of her first marriage; working a variety of jobs; meeting her second husband (Terry Giddy, 1972) and marriage; her husband's relationship with her children; her husband's disability; her attitudes towards disability; her husband's involvement in elite sports for athletes with a disability.

Giddy discusses helping her husband to train in shot put and discus; her involvement in sport and community life while her husband trained; her husband's support of other wheelchair-bound people; her husband's motivational nature; the impact of having a disability on someone's partner and family relationships; issues in regard to wheelchair access to buildings; public attitudes towards people with a disability; camaraderie between athletes with a disability; holding fundraising events to enable her husband to travel to athletics competitions; difficulties lifting her husband's wheelchair; the risk of depression amongst elite athletes; community support for her husband's achievements; her interest in poetry; old sayings.