Welcome to Oral History Queensland

Attention: Oral History Queensland and Oral History Australia, in partnership with State Library of Queensland and Queensland Maritime Museum recently hosted the 2019 National Conference. If you would like to see what went on at the conference, you can still see details here.

Have a look at the Conference photo gallery here.

Read the Oral History – University Ethical Approval of a Project Involving Humans (21 September 2019) here.

In 2007 Brisbane hosted the Oral History Australia national conference. One of the speakers was Pam Willis Burden from Mossman. She spoke about doing your first oral history project. What she tells us is still relevant today (apart from references to cassette tapes). Enjoy her presentation.

The Oral History Association is a non-profit body whose members practice and promote oral history. The aims of Oral History Australia [OHA] are:

1. to promote the practice and methods of oral history

2. to educate in the use of oral history methods

3. to encourage discussions on all aspects of oral history

4. to foster the preservation of oral history records

The national body was founded in Perth in July 1978 with the Queensland branch of the OHAA coming to life some time later. In Queensland we are now known as Oral History Queensland Inc. Queensland has three Oral History Australia Life Members – Sue Pechey 2007, Lesley Jenkins 2007, and Suzanne Mulligan 2009.

A copy of Oral History Queensland’s Constitution (based on the Model Rules) is here.

There are now associations in each state. ACT is incorporated into NSW Branch. NT is incorporated into SA Branch.

New South Wales Maria Savvidis President PO Box 261 Pennant Hills NSW 1715 Email http://www.oralhistorynsw.org.au/	Queensland Elisabeth Gondwe President PO Box 3296 Birkdale QLD 4159 info@ohq.org.au	South Australia Annmarie Reid President PO Box 3113 Unley SA 5061 Email http://oralhistoryaustraliasant.org.au/
Tasmania Jill Cassidy President Queen Victoria Museum PO Box 403 Launceston TAS 7250 Email www.oralhistorytas.org.au	Victoria Jill Adams President 2 Leopold Street Glen Iris VIC 3146 Email http://oralhistoryvictoria.org.au/	Western Australia Kyra Edwards President PO BOX 1065 Nedlands WA 6909 Email