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  • Molly Ferguson, teacher, School of the Air

    I’ve always enjoyed it when I get the chance to happen upon a bit of living history.

    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.
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  • Winston Peters, MP

    I met Winston Peters in 1990 while he was traveling through the Northern Territory.

    At the time he was a Maori member of the NZ National Party, and his star was such he was tipped to become New Zealand’s first Maori Prime Minister.

    Unfortunately the highest he flew was Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer, when his New Zealand First party held the balance of power following the 1996 election.
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  • Larapinta trail

    Larapinta trail
    Taking a break on the Larapinta trail

    While many think of Central Australia as a desert, there is real beauty in this arid environment.
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  • Old farm lore

    Each Friday, The Tasmanian Country Hour crew was responsible for a 15 minute radio documentary called Friday Journal.

    This piece combines some olde English farm lore with some olde English folk songs recorded at a folk festival.

    Cyril Phillips is a former Sussex farmer with a very strong accent. Cyril also sings some of the songs. The result was nicknamed Rae’s revenge as half the audience complained they couldn’t understand a word he said.

    https://www.raeallen.net/audio/old-farm-lore.mp3?_=1

  • Alternatives 85

    Family farm days at Erriba, south of Ulverstone in Tasmania.

    Alternatives ’85 was run by the Kentish Baha’i community.

    [audio:https://www.raeallen.net/audio/alternatives-85.mp3]


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  • Seizing the opportunities

    A seminar run by the Tasmanian Branch of the Australian Farm Management Society, looking at the Tasmanian Taskforce into Agriculture.

    Chairman of the task force was John Alright.

    [audio:https://www.raeallen.net/audio/siezing-the-opportunities.mp3]

  • Draught horses in modern agriculture

    Working draught horses

    While working in Tasmania for the Rural Department, One of our commitments was a 15 minute radio documentary each Friday.

    Normally interviews mixed with voice-overs and actuality, their production was sometimes the last thing anyone wanted to do on a Friday, but at a time of 2 to 5 minute interviews I found it a pleasure to have a time frame to get my teeth into.

    This particular Friday Journal came about when I met Warren Purton, a Northern Tasmanian farmer who was still using draught horses to do some of the jobs more recently managed by tractors.

    Talent: Warren Purton
    To air: Friday Journal, 23 May 1984, duration: 14:03

  • Calling Antarctica

    Up until the mid-1980s, Antarctica was more or less cut off from the world for 6 months of the year.

    In 1984 telephone communication was established with Mawson base in Antarctica and I was one of the first half dozen people to call the research station.
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  • Abalone farming

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

    Fish farming story from Tasmania

    [audio:https://www.raeallen.net/audio/fish-farming.mp3]