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| Record Id: | 25783051 (Australian Library Collections) permalink |
| Author: | Packer, Rita, 1928-
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| Title: | Interview with Rita Packer, retired welfare worker [sound recording] / interviewer, Demetra Enizlis.
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| Published: | 1998.
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| Description: | 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 120 min.)
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| Playing Time: | 020000
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| Series: | Greek-Australian oral history and folklife project
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| Summary: | Rita Packer, born in Melbourne, Vic. recalls her family background; her parents migration to Australia (early 1920s); her early schooling and her studies at Melbourne University, 1946; the discrimination Greeks and other foreigners faced in Australia, early to mid 20th century; her siblings marriages and her own to an Australian diplomat; Greek music; concept of nikokira; Greek clebrations and other traditions, eg. Greek cooking still observed; Australian and Greek lullabies and stories; evil eye ritual; folk medicine; the role and contributions of Greek women to Greek and Australian societies; Greek organizations; Greek school; her welfare work and aged care for elderly Greek people; her work with the Australian Greek Rotary Society, who look after neglected migrants; Greek traditions and language she has passed on to the younger generations.
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| Notes: | User access copy made.
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| Finding Aid: | Summary (3 p.)
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| Subjects: | Packer, Rita, 1928- -- Interviews. Australian Greek Rotary Society. Greeks -- Australia -- Interviews. Greek Australians -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Greek Australians -- Victoria -- Interviews. Children's stories, Greek (Modern) -- Victoria. Children's poetry, Greek (Modern) -- Victoria.
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| Other Authors: | Enizlis, Demetra.
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| Access Conditions: | Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
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| Libraries that have this item: | National Library of Australia. National Library of Australia (ANL) (3110647) ORAL TRC 3607/83-84 ; ORAL TRC 3607/83-84 (summary)
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