Alison Hancock interviewed by Ann-Mari Jordens in the Bringing them home oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 952852
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hancock, Alison, 1939-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2001
- 3 digital audio tapes (140 min.)
- Series:
- Bringing them home oral history project.
- Summary:
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Hancock speaks about her 1960 placement, while a social work student, with the South Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs during which she visited most government reserves. After graduation, she worked as an almoner at Adelaide Hospital before being employed as a social worker with the South Australian Department of Family Services during 1967/68. Hancock worked specifically in child welfare, where her duties required her to remove both Indigenous and non-Indigenous children who were assessed as neglected. She describes the process of removal.
- Biography/History:
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Alison Hancock was a social worker for the South Australian Dept. of Family Services (1967-68) and A.C.T. Dept. of Health (1968-85)
- Notes:
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- Recorded on May 18, 2001 in Weetangera, A.C.T.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218423701
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (7 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 57 leaves)
- Subject:
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- Hancock, Alison, 1939- -- Interviews
- Colebrook Training Centre (Eden Hills, S.A.)
- South Australia. Department of Family Services
- Social workers -- South Australia -- Interviews
- Aboriginal Australians -- Removal
- Aboriginal Australians -- Missions -- South Australia -- Social conditions
- Aboriginal Australian parents -- Civil rights -- South Australia
- Children -- Health risk assessment -- South Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy -- South Australia
- Aboriginal Australians -- South Australia -- Cultural assimilation
- Other authors/contributors:
- Jordens, Ann-Mari, 1940-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Bringing them home oral history project.
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2001
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