Sue Holt interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1249972
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Holt, Sue, 1940-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1995
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.) : analog, mono.
- Series:
- Women of the land oral history project.
- Summary:
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Holt, a farmer, speaks of her childhood, her schooling in Adelaide, her regret of not having done a course in agriculture, the fragility of the land, the Landcare schemes, the growth of Australia's population in the future, the scarcity of fertile land under concrete construction, problems confined to the land: salinity, soil acidity, blue-green algae in dams and rivers, the division between city and country people, her farming period after she left medical school in Adelaide, running commercial cattle, her involvement in the local fire brigade, the Beef Improvement Association, the Breed-plan, her keeping up with the latest technology in breeding cattle, the history of her family, the future of her son and the farm.
- Notes:
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- Part of a collection of 33 interviews with rural women for the book "Women of the land".
- Project conducted in association with the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
- Has accompanying photograph.
- Recorded at Eden Valley, S.A. on Saturday 25 February 1995.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 22 leaves)
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This belongs to the Women of the land oral history project.
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- Publication date:
- 1995
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