The Australian Women's Register

1 sound cassette (ca. 44 min.) Holt, a farmer, speaks of her childhood, her schooling in Adelaide, her regret of not having done a course in agriculture, the fragility of the land, the Landcare schemes, the growth of Australia’s population in the future, the scarcity of fertile land under concrete construction, problems confined to the land: salinity, soil acidity, blue-green algae in dams and rivers, the division between city and country people, her farming period after she left medical school in Adelaide, running commercial cattle, her involvement in the local fire brigade, the Beef Improvement Association, the Breed-plan, her keeping up with the latest technology in breeding cattle, the history of her family, the future of her son and the farm.