Clyde Cameron interviewed by Mel Pratt in Mel Pratt collection [sound recording]

I. Mr Cameron, a politician, talks of his early life at Murray Bridge; Amalgamated Shearers Union; influences on his political life; Norman Makin; Jim Cavanagh; life as a shearer; shearing in New Zealand; life as an Organiser; Aborigines as unionists; National Civic Council; Grayndler; Fallon; 1921 ALP Conference; Theodore; Dougherty; Bukowski; communists; Weil's disease; Evatt; Ballot box inquiry; II. Membership drive, 1943; B.H.P; Tom Dougherty; land prices; bribery in amalgamations; card vote; John Bannon; Industrial Groups; Evatt; Jack Schmella; democratic socialism; union rules; Dethridge Award; Con Bowen; III. 1972 election; Whitlam; migration; abolition of the Dept of Labour and National Service; election of Cabinet; Loans affair; Rex Connor; Whitlam and Connor; rise in inflation; his move from Labour and Immigration portfolio; Caucus rules on dismissal of Ministers; Whitlam; 1975 and 1977 elections; Crean. IV. Freudenberg's assessment of Whitlam's government; John Kerr; Connor's dismissal; official secrets; freedom of information legislation; relations between Ministers and public servants; IDCs; Ian Sharp; ILO; ACOA. Sharp interview: Clarrie O'Shea; Tramways Board; DLP and Groupers; his association with the ILO; treaties; Roland Wilson; TUTA; Clyde Cameron College; indexation.