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| Title: | Interview with Jean Blackburn, economist, educationalist and Chancellor, University of Canberra (sound recording), interviewer: Peter Biskup |
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| Reference: | ORAL TRC 2654 |
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| Date Range: | 1990 |
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| Description: | 5 analog sound tape reels, 196 minutes and 86 page transcript.Blackburn speaks of her parents' backgrounds which modelled her socialist & feminist views, how the contrast between her early public school & her later experience at a selective high school has lead her to advocate the critical importance of good quality teaching & resources in shaping childrens' lives, why she was dissatisfied as a primary school teacher completing her matriculation at night school, her involvement in the Melbourne Univ. Labour Club later joining the Communist Party, how she majored in economics in 1940 becoming a research assistant for the Dept. of Economics, her work for the War Organisation of Industry as an economist giving her experience in policy advice, married in 1943 leaving work and had a child in 1945 moving to Adelaide, her involvement with Winifred Mitchell in organising the New Housewives' Association to overcome isolation of housewives, how she educated herself as a feminist through the Public Library, her rejection of communism how she completed her Dip. Ed. in 1964 & wrote a book, seconded in 1969 by Peter Karmel as a consultant to the Committee of Enquiry into South Australian Education issuing the Karmel Report in 1973, appointed Vicechair of the Schools Commission established by Whitlam to improve govt. funding of schools, later retired from the Education Commission in 1980, how she in 1983 conducted a public enqury into Victorian senior secondary education issuing the Blackburn Report in 1985, current educational issues. |
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| Access: | Written permission required for research use and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. |
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| Title: | Interview with Jean Blackburn, economist, educationalist and Chancellor, University of Canberra (sound recording), interviewer: Peter Read |
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| Reference: | ORAL TRC 2303/17 |
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| Date Range: | 21 July 1988 |
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| Description: | 1 sound cassette, 90 minutes. Blackburn speaks of the division between the Adelaide Aborigines who followed Dr Duguid and those wanting to manage their own affairs; help given to the Progressive Association; the hostility of the Aborigine Advancement League; Dr Duguid's attitude to Aborigines; the Advancement League's attitude of assimilation; demands made on leading Aborigines; Perkins' role as intermediary; Aboriginal boys and girls from government-run Homes being bound for trades and domestic service; the need for a hostel; the welfare work of the Advancement League; protectionist attitude of the Advancement League; difficulties for white people in allowing Aborigines to manage their own affairs; the lack of black people on the executive of the Advancement League; Laurie Bryan's role in the Advancement League; difficulties faced by organisations; Aborigines' political drive; Perkins as leader. |
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| Access: | Written permission required for research use and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. |
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| Title: | Interview with Jean Blackburn, educator (sound recording), interviewer: Tony Ryan |
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| Reference: | ORAL TRC 3291/1 |
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| Date Range: | 1994 |
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| Description: | 4 sound tape reels, 120 minutes. |
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| Access: | Open |
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| Title: | Interview with Jean Blackburn, former member of Schools Commission (sound recording), interviewer: Wendy Lowenstein |
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| Reference: | ORAL TRC 3111/27 |
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| Date Range: | 1 July 1994 |
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| Description: | 1 digital audio tape, 120 minutes. |
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| Access: | Written permission required for research use and public use during the lifetime of the interviewee. |
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