- Entry type: Resource
- Entry ID: AWH002436
Diana Beal interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
- Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Reference ORAL TRC 3406/17
- Date Range 14-Mar-95 - 14-Mar-95
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Description
1 sound cassette (ca. 49 min.) Beal, a farmer, speaks of her schooling, her work in Canberra for the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, her return to Brisbane working at the Department of Primary Industries, her decision to go farming to grow lucerne hay, becoming a hay-making contractor, her involvement in the Landcare committee, her care and concern for land degradation, the dry land salinity, how to get rid of salinity, the Landcare Movement, the disappearance of the farming area, her full-time work at the university, how computers are not used to their full potential amongst farmers who own them, the lack of education amongst farmers, greater awareness from farmers to deal with their own finance and banking.
- Access Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Finding Aid Transcript available (typescript, 28 leaves)