June Hill interviewed by Joanna Penglase in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5758692
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hill, June, 1929-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2011
- 2 sound files (ca. 145 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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June Hill was employed at Department of Youth and Community Services as children's escort and in their Gosford office (1980s). She talks about the reason for escorts, staffing of office, training required, her interest in children; departmental escort procedures; sexual abuse; an incident which lead to her decision to leave the Department; her fears about the Bidura Home environment for younger children; her reasons for not applying to be foster parent; office procedures at that time in Gosford office; her work as children's escort, conditions of work, lack of training; attitudes of work colleagues to the children and to the Department; her new job at a women's refuge; staffing, procedures, number of residents; responsibility for Refuge and its funding and objectives; a car accident, compensation; retirement; her previous employment, including Villawood migrant hostel.
Hill talks about her family background; the Depression years; her memories about the news of Pearl Harbour; her schooling and further education; first jobs; crime films of 1940s; her memories of WWII; father's experience in WWI; activities to help war effort; V-J Day; social and leisure activities as single working girl; her desire to be a writer; her memories of games and activities as child; her engagement and marriage and first home with grandparents; building their first house; her three children; the need to return to work for financial reasons; her husband's early retirement; general discussion about children today.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 15 December 2011 in Sydney, N.S.W.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (5 p.)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Penglase, Joanna, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
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- Until 2081 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2011
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