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# Oral History of Work in Australia

Wendy Lowenstein - Labour History Interviews

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## Posts

- [ORAL HISTORY](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/oral-history/)
- [Archie Kite, Quorn S.A.](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/archie-kite-quorn-s-a/) - INTERVIEW: Archie Kite, aged about 70, was the caretaker of the camping ground at Quorn. He has spent most of his life carting with camels and donkeys
- [Kim Keane -Journalist](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/kim-keane/) - Kim Keane discusses his work in Melbourne, Australia with Egon Erwin Kisch, a Jewish communist and anti-war activist
- [The recordings arrive!!](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/the-recordings-arrive/) - The Recordings Arrive. Exciting day as I received the digitised copy of Wendy’s recordings, 675 different mp3 interviews, a major section of her work.
- [Everyday people, Amazing life stories](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/everyday-people-amazing-life-stories/) - Just finished adding the list of almost 800 interviews. So many recordings! Unbelievable!
- [THE WENDY LOWENSTEIN ORAL HISTORY PROJECT](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/pilbara-robe-river-1986/) - The Wendy Lowenstein Oral History project seeks to document and preserve valuable information and observations about Australian working peoples lives
- [Sam Hazlett, Palm Springs Nth W.A. 1969](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/sam-hazlett/) - Sam Hazlett A prospector and contractor epitomises the independent bushman, refuses to ‘work wages’ and resembles the open-handed, battler stereotype.
- [Bill, Metropolitan Fireman - 1996](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/2657/) - Bill, Fireman, voices his concerns regarding the implementation of EMS as part of firemen’s new duties to support Ambulances and Emergency Services
- ["Giovanni" - Italian Migrant, Mining, NSW](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/alphonso-italian-migrant-1960s/) - An Italian migrant who arrived in 1960, worked BHP Wollongong, moulder, mining NSW, tobacco share farming, tin mining Inverell, Cobar mining. Wollongong miner.
- [Social and Community Workers -1996](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/social-and-community-work-changes/) - Two social workers discuss the changes occurring in their work practices during the 1990’s drive for increased efficiency See “Weevils at Work”.
- [Paddy Garrity - Working with Unemployment](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/paddy_garrity/) - Paddy Garrity. Born: 1937, England. Profession: Seaman, renovator, arts activist, administrator, circus rigger, concert manager, festival organiser
- [Hal Alexander, Actors' Equity 1930's ->](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/2730/) - INTERVIEW: Hal Alexander, Dancer; Trade Union Leader INTERVIEW DATE: mid 1990's NOTES: Hal Alexander learned Buck and Wing dancing from Professor Alcorn in the twenties, and it turned into tap dancing and started his career in show business. Son Bobby and Hal became a song and dance act in the thirties, earning a very bare living –
- [Jim Coull, Trade Unionist - 1960's](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/jim-coull/) - Jim Coull, well known in Victorian Union circles, was a noted Socialist orator at the Yarra Bank and Red Square, Albert Park,
- [Alf Smith, Maldon - 1969 - Bush Carrier](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/childrens-rhymes-and-games/) - Alf Smith, who is in his nineties, has lived in Maldon. His childhood memories are of life on a poor and unsuccessful selection
- [Childrens' Rhymes and Games](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/childrens-rhymes-and-games-2/) - Recording of Childrens’ Rhymes and Games 1965-69. Because I was very well acquainted with this group they told me all their rhymes.
- [Geoff McDonald, Building Workers Industry Union 1966](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/geoff-mcdonald/) - Geoff McDonald, 40, was then an organiser of the B.W.I.U. and a keen observer of folkways of building workers, their traditions, lore and legend, trade idioms
- [Roy Tippet, carpenter, craft & yarns](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/roy-tippet/) - Roy Tippet, a carpenter is about fifty, a romantic Australian and a creator of lore and legend. He has a fund of stories about the building trades.
- [Mrs Kelly -Port Fairy 1969 - Women's Life](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/mrs-kelly/) - Mrs. Kelly, the mother of Tom Bartlett, is about 85; she describes the daily and weekly household routine on a small Western District farm
- [Charlie and Bert Baker - Mannum S.A. 1969 - Murray River Boatmen](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/c-b-baker/) - Charlie and Bert Baker. Charlie had a poem of his own about fishing on the Murray. Bert, who is in his late seventies, is a retired river boat mate
- [Jack Dodd, Riverboats, Goolwa, S.A.](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/jack-dodd-goolwa/) - Jack Dodd, Born about 1915, comes from a river family, and is steeped in its history. A born story teller and hard case.
- ['The Wheatsheaf Inn'](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/the-wheatsheaf-inn/) - This poem about ‘The Wheatsheaf Inn’ was displayed in the window of a small museum. Kapunda, S.A
- [Bert Ellard - Port McDonnell, S.A. - Farmer & Musican](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/port-mcdonell-1969/) - Met Bert Ellard at Port McDonnell South Australia. He is an outstanding informant who gave me many dance tunes on the accordion and mouth organ
- [Ted Groves - Quorn, S.A. - Musical Saw Player](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/ted-groves-quorn/) - Ted Groves played music on the normal carpenter’s saw using a bow. Aged 65, Ted was about to retire to Adelaide. He learnt to play the saw in England
- [Joe Kite, Quorn S.A.](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/joe-kite-quorn-s-a/) - Joe Kite, a very bent man of about 65 years, sings the songs of Hank Snow with an almost religious devotion and writes his own songs in the same style.
- [Jack Manning, Quorn S.A. - Drover](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/jack-manning-quorn-s-a/) - Jack Manning was in his eighties. He had been a drover up into Queensland and worked with camels, and had a deadpan way of telling hilarious yarns.
- [Harold "Spider" Willard, Quorn S.A. - Bushman](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/harold-spider-willard-quorn-s-a/) - Harold "Spider" Willard was with the Government camel teams and also worked as a navvy on the building of the Trans-Continental railway line
- [Fai Hockley, Madura, W.A](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/fai-hockley-madura-w-a/) - Fai Hockley, wife of a rabbit trapper on the Nullarbor, ets the words of poems written by another rabbit trapper friend to country and western style tunes
- [Bert Vickers, Perth, W.A - Wool Classer](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/bert-vickers-perth-w-a/) - Bert Vickers, 67 is a writer of English birth who worked as a wool classer in the north. He talks about folk characters, shearing shed life and bush preachers
- [Stan Gratte, Geraldton, W.A. 'Ambania Ghost'](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/stan-gratte-geraldton/) - Stan, a poultry farmer and former railwayman talks about the Ambania Ghost whose appearance he witnessed, about local aboriginal tribes and cannibalism.
- [‘Bootenal Light’,  Ned O'Malley, Geraldton, W.A.](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/ned-omalley-geraldton-w-a/) - Ned, an erect man born in 1887, has a very good memory. Born on the Greenough Flats where his parents lost their farm in the great floods
- [Mr & Mrs Bartlett, St Helens Vic. 1969](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/mr-mrs-bartlett-st-helens/) - INTERVIEW: Mr & Mrs Bartlett - 1969 PLACE: St Helens, Victoria NOTES: Tom Bartlett is the grandson of successful Western District selectors, and told stories about the goldfields. His wife sang a fragment of ‘The Gum Tree Canoe’ and told of her great grandmother's death in childbirth on Ballarat at the time of –

## Pages

- [Wendy Lowenstein - Home Page](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/) - Explore Wendy Lowenstein's archive of Australian oral history and labour stories, preserving the working-class experience. Recorded interviews, books and more.
- [IMMIGRANT STORIES](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/9318-2/) - IMMIGRANT STORIES Werner Julius Lowenstein was born in Berlin 18 July 1922. His story is of a young Jewish boy growing up in Berlin, Hitler Youth in the classroom, Nazi Band practising marching behind his house, an escape organised by Quakers using the “Kindertransport”, internment in England, transportation on the notorius “Dunera” to internment camps
- [Books by Wendy Lowenstein](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/books-by-wendylowenstein/) - Browse Books by Wendy Lowenstein's on Australian oral history, folklore, labour struggles, social and political issues, immigration and more
- [DEPRESSION -1927-1930’s](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/depression-1927-1930s/) - The Depression - 1927 - 1930's These are the interviews Wendy Lowenstein used to write the book “Weevils in the Flour – An Oral History of the 1930s Depression in Australia”. These stories capture the lived experiences, voices and memories of Australians whose histories often go untold. Watch the full set of interviews below or
- [FOLKLORE & FOLK MUSIC](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/9310-2/) - Folklore and the Folk Music collection & revival in Australia 1960s-1970s including the first Australian National Folk Festival held in Melbourne in 1967. These stories capture the lived experiences, voices and memories of Australians whose histories often go untold. Watch the full set of interviews below or explore more videos on the YouTube channel. Explore
- [WAR STORIES](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/war-stories/) - War - Real stories of everyday peoples' war experience. These war stories capture the lived experiences, voices and memories of Australians whose histories often go untold. Watch the full set of interviews below or explore more videos on the YouTube channel. Explore Full Playlist Here Want to explore more of Wendy’s work? Click on the
- [WENDY LOWENSTEIN](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/wendy-lowenstein/) - Wendy Lowenstein Australian Oral Historian Wendy Lowenstein, acclaimed author of ‘Weevils In The Flour’ recorded interviews with over 800 everyday people, from all around Australia, who talked about their struggles to obtain better working and living conditions over a period of 40 years from 1965 Lowenstein wrote a number of the most celebrated oral histories
- [WORKING LIVES](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/working-lives/) - Working Lives - Changes 1930-1990 These stories capture the lived experiences, voices and memories of Australians whose histories often go untold. Watch the full set of interviews below or explore more videos on the YouTube channel. Explore Full Playlist Here Want to explore more of Wendy’s work? Click on the YouTube icon below to browse
- [ROBE RIVER DISPUTE](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/robe-river-dispute-2/) - Robe River - Pekoe Wallsend Dispute - 1986 - Working Lives In July 1986 at Robe River Iron, new management, Peko-Wallsend Ltd and CEO Charles Copeman, had taken over in January. With them came a total review of operations and at the end of July a clean sweep of local site-level management. Critically, the company
- [POLITICAL AND SOCIAL LIVES](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/political-and-social-lives/) - Political Struggles and Trade Union Activities Interviews 1920-1995 Everyday people discuss their life stories. These stories capture the lived experiences, voices and memories of Australians whose histories often go untold. Watch the full set of interviews below or explore more videos on the YouTube channel. Explore Full Playlist Here Want to explore more of Wendy’s
- [MINING WONTHAGGI](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/mining-wonthaggi/) - Wonthaggi Coal Miners Struggle for Decent Working Conditions Working underground, especially in a coal mine, is one of the most dangerous, physical, filthy, dirty jobs one could imagine. Men had to often lie on their sides with their picks and work in confined spaces, whereas the NSW coal seams were 8 to 12 feet thick,
- [MELBOURNE WHARFIES](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/melbourne-wharfies/) - Waterside Workers Remember - Melbourne 1900-1998 These stories capture the lived experiences, voices and memories of Australians whose histories often go untold. Watch the full set of interviews below or explore more videos on the YouTube channel. Explore Full Playlist Here Want to explore more of Wendy’s work? Click on the YouTube icon below to
- [OUTBACK AND RURAL LIVES](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/outback-and-rural-lives/) - Outback and Rural Life recorded in 1969 Watch the full set of interviews below or explore more videos on the YouTube channel. Explore Full Playlist Here Want to explore more of Wendy’s work? Click on the YouTube icon below to browse the full archive. New interviews are being updated regularly Youtube Wendy Lowenstein Collection
- [Weevils in the Flour](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/books-by-wendylowenstein/weevils-in-the-flour/) - Weevils in the Flour by Wendy Lowenstein. A magnificent oral record of the experiences of ordinary Australians during the Great Depression of the 1930s
- [Weevils at Work](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/books-by-wendylowenstein/weevils-at-work/) - Weevils at Work (1997) by Wendy Lowenstein. Working people discuss the effects of employment contracts, subcontracting, part-time work changes & casualization.
- [Under the Hook](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/books-by-wendylowenstein/under-the-hook/) - Under the Hook by Wendy Lowenstein Tom Hills. Compiled from interviews with many Port wharfies, it records their working lives and class war on the waterfront
- [The Immigrants](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/books-by-wendylowenstein/tttt/) - The Immigrants by Wendy Lowenstein and Morag Loh. Oral History of Immigrants in Australia
- [CONTACT US](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/contact-us/) - For information or inquiries about this site, contact: Martie Lowenstein
- [WERNER](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/werner-and-wendy/) - Werner Julius Lowenstein was born in Berlin 18 July 1922. His story is of a young Jewish boy growing up in Berlin. An escape, internment in England & Australia
- [WENDY](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/wendy-2/) - Wendy Lowenstein interviewed by Edgar Waters 1993.
- [ABOUT WENDY LOWENSTEIN](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/about-wendy-lowenstein/) - Pioneer of Australian Oral Labour History. Wendy recorded interviews with over 800 everyday people from all around Australia about their stories & struggles
- [HOME](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/wendy-lowenstein-1927-2006/) - Wendy Lowenstein recorded interviews with over 800 everyday people from all around Australia, who talked about their struggles, working and living conditions
- [Home Page2](https://www.wendylowenstein.com/home-page2/) - Pioneer of Australian Oral Labour History Wendy Lowenstein recorded interviews with over 800 everyday people from all around Australia, who talked about their struggles to obtain better working and living conditions over a period of 40 years from 1965 Lowenstein wrote a number of the most celebrated oral histories in Australia, focusing on the lives and
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