Wilfred Prince interviewed by Rob Willis for the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5720317
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Prince, Wilfred, 1960-
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2011
- 2 sound files (ca. 155 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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Wilfred Thomas Prince, born at Cherbourg Aboriginal Mission, Qld. (1960) discusses his family background; illnesses suffered during childhood; his physical disability; medical misdiagnoses; therapy treatments; being transferred to the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane; the role of the Chief Protector of Aborigines; the legal status of Aboriginal people at the time; removal and separation from his family; being transferred to the Xavier Home for Crippled Children; living conditions at the Home; the location and layout of the building at the Home; dormitories; his possessions; photographs; clothing; his interaction with other children; friendships with other children and with nuns; teasing; discipline; daily routine; food and meal times; schooling and education; school routine and teachers; the role of religion in his life; Aboriginal spirituality; being taken on excursions by his foster family; his relationship with his foster family; nearly being adopted; moving to a hostel run by the Queensland Spastic Welfare Association when he was 12 years old; living in Harold Crawford House, Brisbane; his preparation for life after care; his self-confidence after care; independence.
Prince discusses his feelings about his experience in care; being placed in the Newstead Opportunity School; the importance of sports and sports training in his life; the Queensland Sporting Wheelies; representing Queensland in wheelchair racing; camaraderie between disabled athletes; funding; carrying the 2000 Paralympic torch; working as a paperboy; getting a job at the State Library of Queensland; his work at the Library and the Indigenous Knowledge Centre there; discovering, searching for and accessing information about his childhood; searching for information about his family and Aboriginal heritage; the history of the Kalkadoon clan; memorials for Aboriginal conflicts; contacts made with his family; reunification and relationships within his family; public attitudes to disability; public attitudes to Aboriginality; the importance of having a sense of humour; the affect of institutionalisation on his later life; working with community groups; the Bringing them home: The 'Stolen Children' report (1997); the National Apology to the Stolen Generations; the National Apology to Forgotten Australians and former Child Migrants; his involvement in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Disability Network of Queensland.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 26 August 2011 in Brisbane, Qld.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (7 p.) available.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Willis, Rob, 1944-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2011
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