• Title
  Item 1: Heidi Forrest interview by Louise Darmody
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  25 March 2022
• Type of material
  Oral Histories, Nonmusical Sound Recordings
• Reference code
  9666062
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (1 hr., 45 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Heidi Forrest talks about her upbringing in a small country town, Kurri Kurri, the Hunter Valley region of New South Wales. She discusses her family background of her father's German ancestry and her mother's Aboriginal ancestry. Forrest talks about her illness at 13 years old when she had a cerebral aneurysm in her brain stem and her rehabilitation process.
  
  Forrest recounts her 39 year involvement with People with Disability Australia (PWDA) from 1983 onwards, including being President from 2002-2006. She also discusses her involvement as PWDA's delegation to the United Nations in New York, drafting the Convention of the Rights for Persons with Disabilities, and the National Disability Insurance Scheme.
  
  Forrest also talks about her studies during her work with PWDA, completing a Bachelor of Social Sciences and Bachelor of Law at University of Newcastle.
• Language
  English
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Forbes Street Studio, Woolloomooloo, New South Wales on 25 March 2022
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Forrest, Heidi
  
• Subject
  Forrest, Heidi--Interviews.
  People with disabilities--Interviews.
  People with disabilities--Government policy--Australia.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20434592

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