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Tom Uren

Known as the conscience of the Labor Party, politician Tom Uren never lost his sense of justice and fair play and left a legacy of heritage preservation.
Series : Australian Biography Series 5 | Year : 1996 | Total Duration : 26.5 Minutes | Producer : Frank Heimans
Director : Frank Heimans |
CU interview with Tom Uren, Member of the House of Representatives 1958-1990, where he states his great belief in the good of public service.
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Access No. 139026 | 35 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU photograph of Tom Uren in hat at microphone.
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Access No. 139027 | 31 secs | 1990s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd | Colour |
CU interview with Tom Uren talking about the poverty in his childhood.
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Access No. 139028 | 22 secs | 1920s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Tom Uren's mother, c.1919.
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Access No. 139029 | 5 secs | 1910s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren explaining why his early life was one of poverty.
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Access No. 139030 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of lines of unemployed on the street during the Depression.
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Access No. 139031 | 6 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren the poverty and welfare system during his childhood.
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Access No. 139032 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Tom Uren as a young boy in suit and bow tie c.1929.
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Access No. 139033 | 6 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS Tom Uren interview where he talks about his mother's ambitions for him.
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Access No. 139034 | 22 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Tom Uren's family in their backyard in Balmain showing Tom on far right, two small siblings and parents, c.1924.
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Access No. 139035 | 6 secs | 1920s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
Archival B&W footage with high shot over people watching rough surf at beach, high shot over people diving into surf from rocks and surfers catching waves, one with boldly striped surfboard.
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Access No. 139036 | 12 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Film World | B&W |
CU B&W photograph of Tom Uren as a young man, c.1940/1945.
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Access No. 139037 | 7 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his interest in boxing as a young man.
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Access No. 139038 | 9 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Tom Uren in a boxing pose as a young man.
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Access No. 139039 | 14 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren where he talks of being 18 years old when war broke out and his application to the Army.
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Access No. 139040 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival photograph of group of army soldiers around large gun.
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Access No. 139041 | 5 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren where he talks of being transferred from North Head to Darwin during WWII at 18 years of age.
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Access No. 139042 | 12 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Tom Uren as a young soldier in slouch hat, 1941.
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Access No. 139043 | 7 secs | 1930s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren where he talks about his time in Timor during the war.
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Access No. 139044 | 12 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W air to air footage of war planes in sky with Tom Uren voice-over talking about the continual bombing and strafing raids he endured from the Japanese in Timor during the war. Archival footage of Japanese paratroops running.
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Access No. 139045 | 21 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Film World | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren where he talks about fighting Japanese paratroops in the village of Babaoe, Timor during the war.
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Access No. 139046 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of soldiers walking through jungle, soldiers firing off rounds of ammunition from guns, and VS Australian soldiers in jungle laying out and looking at map as Tom Uren talks about fighting the Japanese in Timor.
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Access No. 139047 | 12 secs | 1940s | Timor | © Film World | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren where he talks about fighting Japanese paratroops in the village of Babaoe, Timor during the war.
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Access No. 139048 | 10 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of tank approaching POV inside soldier's foxhole. GS tanks towards camera with explosions detonating around them.
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Access No. 139049 | 4 secs | 1940s | Thailand | © Film World | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren where he talks about his army unit surrendering to the Japanese in Timor during the war.
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Access No. 139050 | 15 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of Japanese troops marching, guns over shoulders.
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Access No. 139051 | 4 secs | 1940s | Thailand | © Film World | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren as he talks about Japanese bombers bombing both his unit and the Japanese as the Australians were surrendering to the Japanese in Timor during the war.
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Access No. 139052 | 11 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about being taken as a POW in Timor and being moved to Singapore before ending up at work on the Thai-Burma railway.
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Access No. 139053 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom out from B&W archival photograph of soldiers gathered around steam engine as Tom Uren talks about working on the Thai-Burma railway and being under the leadership of Weary Dunlop. MS photograph of Dunlop.
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Access No. 139054 | 14 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren as he talks about being under Weary Dunlop's leadership during the building of the Burma railway.
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Access No. 139055 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival photograph of soldiers standing around graves with heads bowed.
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Access No. 139056 | 7 secs | 1940s | Thailand | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
CU interview with Tom Uren as he talks about the heavy work endured during the building of the Burma railway.
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Access No. 139057 | 13 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival still of Australian soldiers working on the Burma railway track with voice-over of Tom Uren talking about the work he did. Fade to B&W shot of Australian soldiers working on the hammer-and-tap crews under the supervision of an armed Japanese guard.
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Access No. 139059 | 10 secs | 1940s | Thailand | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
CU interview with Tom Uren talking about the cruelty of the Japanese guards during the building of the Burma railway by POWs.
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Access No. 139060 | 7 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of two Japanese guards posing for camera and WS of guards watching Australian soldiers marching as Tom Uren talks about the brutality of the Japanese engineers to POWs during the building of the Burma railway.
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Access No. 139061 | 11 secs | 1940s | Thailand | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
WS B&W photograph of Australian soldiers lying around camp reading.
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Access No. 139062 | 6 secs | 1990s | Thailand | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about the British soldiers joining the Australians POWs, their pecking order and their fate.
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Access No. 139063 | 23 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS archival B&W still of sick soldier, ribs sticking out, being tended by colleague.
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Access No. 139066 | 5 secs | 1940s | Thailand | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about how the Australians POWs worked together and about the leadership of Weary Dunlop.
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Access No. 139067 | 14 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Weary Dunlop, c. 1942.
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Access No. 139068 | 6 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about the malaria he contracted as a POW during the war.
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Access No. 139069 | 20 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival still of Australian soldiers in camp barracks.
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Access No. 139070 | 7 secs | 1940s | Thailand | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about the humbling effect sickness can have and his interest in Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Access No. 139072 | 17 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Franklin Delaney Roosevelt, 1930s.
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Access No. 139073 | 5 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his interest in Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
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Access No. 139074 | 8 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt up WS of B&W still of Japanese labour camp in jungle. Photograph of single carriage passing over trestle bridge, 1945.
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Access No. 139075 | 9 secs | 1940s | Thailand | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about the Japanese labour camp he was sent to in Omuta.
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Access No. 139076 | 8 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W still of Japanese labour camp.
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Access No. 139077 | 5 secs | 1940s | Japan | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his respect for the elderly Japanese workers he met during his incarceration in the Japanese labour camp at Omuta.
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Access No. 139078 | 5 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W still of lines of men in Japanese labour camp.
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Access No. 139079 | 5 secs | 1940s | Japan | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his struggle against fascism and militarism.
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Access No. 139081 | 13 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of double-decker bus carrying returned soldiers pulling into cheering crowd throwing confetti.
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Access No. 139083 | 7 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Film World | B&W |
CU interview with Tom Uren talking about travelling on double-decker bus carrying returned soldiers along Parramatta Road, Sydney, and the feeling of freedom he had.
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Access No. 139084 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival B&W footage of returning soldiers leaning out of double-decker bus window and tilt down to lower deck as the bus passes through cheering crowds throwing confetti.
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Access No. 139085 | 5 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Film World | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about arriving home from the war.
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Access No. 139086 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W still of Tom Uren in uniform standing with his mother and large group of friends, 1945.
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Access No. 139087 | 5 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about arriving home from the war.
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Access No. 139088 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival photograph of Tom Uren standing with young soldier mates all in uniform.
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Access No. 139118 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
CU interview with Tom Uren talking about meeting his future wife Patty Palmer.
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Access No. 139119 | 1 min 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU tilt up B&W wedding photograph with Tom Uren and Patty Palmer cutting the cake, 1947.
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Access No. 139120 | 8 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about moving down to Wollongong to work at the Port Kembla steelworks as a builder's labourer.
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Access No. 139121 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom out from B&W photograph of Port Kembla Steelworks and second still of steelwork buildings, late 1940s.
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Access No. 139122 | 11 secs | 1990s | Port Kembla, NSW, Australia | © BHP Billiton Ltd | B&W |
Interview with Tom Uren talking about his desire to take on professional boxing and deciding to move to England to do so.
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Access No. 139123 | 24 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his disasterous first boxing fight in England. Zoom in to Uren as he talks of his despair after the fight.
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Access No. 139124 | 1 min 26 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W still of Tom Uren in boxing pose, c.1941.
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Access No. 139125 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about coming back to Australia and becoming a trainee floorman at Woolworths.
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Access No. 139126 | 27 secs | 1950s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W photograph of Woolworths store in Lithgow.
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Access No. 139127 | 5 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
CU B&W photograph of Tom Uren taken at the time he was offered the role of Manager of Woolworths in Lithgow.
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Access No. 139128 | 5 secs | 1950s | Lithgow, NSW, Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren expressing his surprise at being offered Manager of Woolworths Lithgow.
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Access No. 139129 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W WS of Woolworths, Lithgow.
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Access No. 139130 | 5 secs | 1950s | Lithgow, NSW, Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
CU Tom Uren commenting about his Labour party membership whilst in Lithgow and B&W photograph of Uren with Labour Party members. Zoom in to Uren.
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Access No. 139131 | 10 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
CU interview with Tom Uren talking about the 1957 preselections in the Labor Party.
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Access No. 139132 | 7 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W still of Tom Uren in suit talking to another man.
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Access No. 139133 | 7 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU interview with Tom Uren where he recalls a conversation with his employer at Woolworths Lithgow where Uren was pressured to drop his political aspirations to gain advancement but stuck to his beliefs and won his employer over.
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Access No. 139134 | 1 min 32 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt up B&W photograph of Tom Uren with rake in his garden, 1958. CU to detail of his face in photo.
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Access No. 139135 | 14 secs | 1950s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his entry into Parliament and his working relationship with Jim Cairns.
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Access No. 139136 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W still of Jim Cairns and fellow politician smiling.
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Access No. 139137 | 5 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his great admiration for Jim Cairns in the 1950s and his belief that he was leadership material.
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Access No. 139138 | 49 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Gough Whitlam.
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Access No. 139139 | 9 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his preference for Jim Cairns to be Prime Minister over Gough Whitlam but also discusses his admiration for Whitlam's stand on White Australia and Vietnam.
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Access No. 139140 | 30 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W archival footage of Tom Uren addressing rally and pan across rally crowds.
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Access No. 139141 | 10 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about Whitlam's allocations of portfolios and being given the shadow ministry of urban and regional development.
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Access No. 139142 | 5 secs | 1970s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Tom Uren with Gough Whitlam. Fade to B&W photograph of woman kneeling down kissing Whitlam's hand (Bob Hawke visible in front row of meeting). Super states "ALP wins Federal election, 1972".
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Access No. 139143 | 14 secs | 1970s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd | B&W |
Colour footage of Tom Uren as Minister of Urban and Regional Development walking with colleagues along streets of Wooloomooloo which he saved from development in 1975. WS Uren at microphone on footpath talking to the residents of Wooloomooloo and GS handing out cheques and keys to residents.
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Access No. 139144 | 52 secs | 1970s | Australia | © ABC Footage Sales | Colour |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about the importance of saving Wooloomooloo and the Glebe estate.
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Access No. 139145 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W still of Tom Uren walking along street, 1985.
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Access No. 139146 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd, | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about the role the Labor government played in local government authorities and his own involvement in the planning of Canberra, the stopping of development along the Murrumbidgee and creating a national park at Nymagee.
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Access No. 139147 | 49 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W still of Tom Uren standing with Gough Whitlam.
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Access No. 139148 | 6 secs | 1970s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd, | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about the setting up of an enquiry into the National Estate and subsequent introduction of legislation for the Australian Heritage Commission.
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Access No. 139149 | 30 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W still of Tom Uren's wife Patricia sitting on the beach with their children Michael and Heather, early-mid 1960s.
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Access No. 139150 | 5 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his wife Patricia's support of his political career and the question of children earlier in their marriage.
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Access No. 139151 | 33 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Tom and Patricia Uren's two adopted children Michael & Heather standing in front yard, arms crossed with tin cart behind them.
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Access No. 139152 | 6 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about his role in his children's early life.
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Access No. 139153 | 11 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W MS still of Tom and Patricia Uren with young son Michael, c.1970.
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Access No. 139154 | 5 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
CU interview with Tom Uren talking about his gradual estrangement from his family as politics absorbed more of his time after becoming a minister. He speaks of the fallout this caused with his family and his sepertation from Patricia in the mid-1970s.
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Access No. 139155 | 50 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Tom Uren's wife holding hands with their two small children Michael and Heather on the footpath, early 1960s.
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Access No. 139156 | 5 secs | 1960s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
MS interview with Tom Uren talking about caring for his wife Patricia at the end of her life.
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Access No. 139157 | 15 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS colour photograph of Tom and Patricia Uren in the early 1970s.
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Access No. 139158 | 5 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Tom Uren | Colour |
MS interview with Tom Uren with him talking about the positive influence his late wife Patricia had on his life.
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Access No. 139159 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W family photograph of Tom and Patricia Uren with their daughter Heather and son Michael, 1978.
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Access No. 139160 | 5 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Tom Uren | B&W |
CU of tearful Tom Uren talking about his late wife Patricia.
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Access No. 139161 | 22 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Tom Uren and his present wife Christine.
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Access No. 139162 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd | B&W |
CU interview with Tom Uren talking about his long and complicated relationship with his present wife Christine.
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Access No. 139163 | 46 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour footage of Tom Uren playing with his young step-daughter Ruby and watering the garden with her.
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Access No. 139164 | 14 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MS interview with Tom Uren where he expresses his views on current Australian society.
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Access No. 139165 | 20 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Tom Uren on street being watched by residents.
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Access No. 139166 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © John Fairfax Publications Ltd | B&W |
CU interview with Tom Uren with slow zoom out as he speaks of Australia in the late twentieth century going into the new century.
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Access No. 139167 | 18 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Tom Uren in hat.
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Access No. 139168 | 4 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | B&W |
CU interview with Tom Uren looking and sounding optimistic about the future.
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Access No. 139169 | 1 min 16 secs | 1990s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival photograph of soldiers standing in doorway of iron train carriage, Malaya-Burma, 1942.
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Access No. 139170 | 6 secs | 1940s | Australia | © Australian War Memorial | B&W |
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