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In the fourth program in a series exploring memories of childhood, the poet and activist Oodgeroo Noonuccal recalls her early life growing up on her tribal country, Minjerribah, or Stradbroke Island, off the coast of southern Queensland.
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Don Dunstan was born in 1926, and grew up between two very different worlds—the years spent in Fiji, where his Australian father was a manager for the Adelaide Steamship Company, and his time in South Australia, where he lived with relatives in the small town of Murray Bridge and attended boarding school in Adelaide.
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The Australian dancer, choreographer and actor Sir Robert Helpman [1909 -1986] retains a special place in Australia's cultural history.
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In this first program in our series on childhood memories, former school principal Betty Archdale remembers growing up in England at the beginning of last century. Her mother was a suffragette, which had a lasting influence on Betty's life. She first visited Australia in the 1930s, when she captained their women's cricket team, but she returned in 1946 to take up the role of prinicipal at Sydney University's Women's College. From there she became the headmistress at the private Sydney girls school Abbotsleigh. She was also a regular panelist on the ABC Radio Program Any Questions.
Thursday 8.35pm
repeated Sunday 5am
Executive Producer
Claudia Taranto
Thursday 28 August 2008
Sir Hermann, or HD, Black was born in Sydney in 1904 and claimed Scottish, Irish and German heritage. He attended Fort Street high school and became a teacher himself, before being offered a position, in 1933, at his old alma-mater, the University of Sydney, in the Department of Economics.
1pm AEST
Hindsight
New perspectives on well-known aspects of our past, and documenting stories long-ignored
