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In March 1984 while working in Tasmania I interviewed the worlds first abalone farmer.

Worlds first abalone farmer

Interview with Charles Perkins, Australian Aboriginal activist, public servant and soccer player.

Follows the publication  of his biography by Peter Read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_N._Perkins

Charles Perkins

An interview with Molly Ferguson, the first female teacher at School of the Air, now the School of Distance Education at Alice Springs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air

In 1991 the Alice Springs School of the Air celebrated its 40th anniversary, and one of the people who turned up to share her story was one of the original teachers, Molly Ferguson.

Her story however was as much a picture of our society in the 1950s as it was about her work at the School of the Air. Molly spoke of her stint as acting Principal, and that being a woman she could only be an acting Principal as at the time only men could get the job full time.

In 1955 Molly was awarded an MBE for her service with the School of the Air, and retired in 1956, to marry. At the time it was a requirement for married women to leave the job.

Molly Ferguson

Interview with Fantasy author Robert Jordan for "Beyond Midnight" on  15 April 1993.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Jordan

Robert Jordan

Interview with New Zealand parliamentarian Winston Peters while he was visiting Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. Broadcast on "Territory Today" 3 August 1990

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Peters

Winston Peters

Radio documentary on walking the Larapinta Trail in the West MacDonnells Broadcast on "Territory Today" as a two part series - 26 and 27 April 1990

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larapinta_Trail

Larapinta walking trail

Short radio documentary piece on a Tasmanian farmer who still used draught horses in the mid 1980s.

Broadcast on "Friday Journal" in May 1984

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