Diana Beal interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2783656
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Beal, Diana J. (Diana Joy), 1945-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1995
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 49 min.) : analog, mono.
- Series:
- Women of the land oral history project.
- Summary:
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Beal, a farmer, speaks of her schooling, her work in Canberra for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, her return to Brisbane working at the Department of Primary Industries, her decision to go farming to grow lucerne hay, becoming a hay-making contractor, her involvement in the Landcare committee, her care and concern for land degradation, the dry land salinity, how to get rid of salinity, the Landcare Movement, the disappearence of the farming area, her full-time work at the university, how computers are not used to their full potential amongst farmers who own them, the lack of education amongst farmers, greater awareness from farmers to deal with their own finance and banking.
- 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 Toowoomba, Queensland on Tuesday 14 March 1995.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript available (typescript, 28 leaves)
- Subject:
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- Beal, Diana J. (Diana Joy), 1945- -- Interviews
- Australia. Bureau of Agricultural Economics
- Landcare Australia
- Rural women -- Australia -- Interviews
- Rural women -- Australia -- Social conditions
- Women in agriculture -- Australia
- Hay -- Queensland
- Salinity -- Australia
- Land degradation -- Australia
- Toowoomba (Qld.) -- Biography
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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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