Sub-series 2: Sound recordings relating to the National Civic Council and its front organisations

MLOH 777/17-31

sub-series

approximately 1977-1982

Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories

1362010

Digitised

13 audiotape reels (4 hr., 57 min.) - 18 cm, 6 mm tape and smaller
2 audiocassettes (2 hr., 31 min.) - 10 × 7 cm, 4 mm tape

John Warhurst is a prominent academic who at that time was based in the Faculty of General Studies at the Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education. He had written about the National Civic Council, in part based on a collection of files in his possession that represented the records of the National Civic Council's South Australian branch when it was called the Catholic Social Studies Movement.

Barry Egan had been a member of the National Civic Council who held the positions of NSW secretary and federal secretary of the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association in the 1970s.

John Forrester had been a member of the National Civic Council who held the position of secretary of the Central and Southern Queensland branch of the Federated Clerks’ Union in the 1970s.

Frank Knopfelmacher was a prominent academic in the anti-communist movement who at one time was close to the National Civic Council’s national president B. A. Santamaria.

Colleen Forrester was the wife of John Forrester and had been a member of the National Civic Council.

Edmund Campion is a Catholic priest who has studied and written about the history of the National Civic Council.

Source: Mark Aarons, August 2015.

Item 01: John Warhurst oral history interview by Mark Aarons
Item 02: Barry Egan oral history interview by Mark Aarons
Item 03: John Forrester oral history interview by Mark Aarons
Item 04: Noel Tennison and John Grenville
Item 05: Frank Knopfelmacher oral history interview by Mark Aarons, 6 December 1982
Item 06: John Forrester oral history interview by Mark Aarons
Item 07: Colleen Forrester oral history interview by Mark Aarons
Item 08: Edmund Campion oral history interview by Mark Aarons
Item 09: Frank Knopfelmacher oral history interview by Mark Aarons
Item 10: Noel Tennison
Item 11: Proceedings of the National Civic Council’s Victorian State Council meeting

Contents list arranged by Mark Aarons.

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The description of this material has been supplied from the Oral History Digitisation Program, undertaken 2014 to 2017, of the Library's oral history collections.

Part of Series 3/Box 20