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Tagged: oral history
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Barry Cohen, Minister for Home Affairs in 1984, interviewed by James McCarthy. He talks about the persistence of Ray Edmondson and the genesis of an autonomous NFSA.
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Aerial shots of Hermannsburg in Central Australia are followed by black-and-white historical footage of Indigenous people going about their business on the mission. Interview footage of Pastor F. W...
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After black-and-white footage of Pintubi people, Smithy Zimeran Tjampitjinpa recalls being moved to Papunya. Yuyua Nampitjinpa talks about her experience in the mission school. Summary by Romaine...
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The food gathering expedition returns to find the children left at the camp missing. The tracks reveal that a white man with boots had entered the camp and taken the children while the older women...
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A black-and-white clip shows the dramatisation of a story told by the old people in Central Australia. Children are playing games – clapping, drawing in the dirt. A woman announces that some children...
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Brendan Horgan interviewed Bruce Gyngell for the NFSA's 'Radio With Pictures' oral history project in 1998.
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Journalist Steve Liebmann discusses how the news reports of the day become a historical chronicle of the times, and the work he did covering the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. Mr...
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Journalist and Today show host Lisa Wilkinson on the pros and cons of journalism in the digital era, the best interview she’s ever done, her favourite Australian journalists and the importance of on...
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Les Gock rose to fame in the Australian band Hush, before making a career as a writer and producer in the advertising world.
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Musician Don Walker (Cold Chisel) on the importance of saving audio tapes, and how he still keeps the handwritten notes where he first captured the ideas for many songs.
Mr Walker recently visited...