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Joan Winch

Nurse, midwife, academic, educator...Joan Winch has overcome numerous professional and personal hurdles to make an extraordinary contribution to Aboriginal health.
Series : Australian Biography Series 9 | Year : 2003 | Total Duration : 26 Minutes | Producer : Rod Freedman
Director : Rod Freedman |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the spiritual side to life.
Access No. 143353 | 59 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Joan Winch lying in basket as a baby. WS Winch as a small girl with her mother outside humpy. Zoom in to photograph showing Joan and baby sitting on mother's lap.
Access No. 143354 | 14 secs | 1930s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch relating a story about when she was a baby and the family lived in a humpy.
Access No. 143355 | 17 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch as a baby lying in her mother's arms.
Access No. 143356 | 6 secs | 1930s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch relating a story about when she was a baby and the family lived in a humpy.
Access No. 143357 | 38 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch as a young girl standing with her mother and two brothers. Zoom in to CU of Joan's face.
Access No. 143358 | 11 secs | 1930s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the difficulty of living as an Aboriginal person when she was growing up.
Access No. 143359 | 18 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch's father with dog.
Access No. 143360 | 8 secs | 1930s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the importance of schooling to her father.
Access No. 143361 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tilt up B&W photograph of Joan Winch as a small girl wearing dress and bow in her hair.
Access No. 143362 | 9 secs | 1930s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about her childhood perception of growing up Aboriginal.
Access No. 143363 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch as a teenager.
Access No. 143364 | 8 secs | 1940s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the systematic loss of Aboriginal language through living in white society.
Access No. 143365 | 22 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch's mother.
Access No. 143366 | 10 secs | 1930s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the stories circulating when she was a child relating to forced Aboriginal child removal.
Access No. 143367 | 25 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch's father.
Access No. 143368 | 7 secs | 1930s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about stories she was told about jenags, little spirit people.
Access No. 143369 | 21 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
WS B&W school photograph with Joan Winch in back row. Zoom in to MS of her in photo.
Access No. 143370 | 9 secs | 1930s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about difficulties she had at school.
Access No. 143371 | 16 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS Joan Winch in B&W school photograph.
Access No. 143372 | 5 secs | 1930s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the fights she had at school.
Access No. 143373 | 35 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch in girl guide uniform.
Access No. 143374 | 8 secs | 1940s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about losing her mother at age 13.
Access No. 143375 | 24 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch in school uniform.
Access No. 143376 | 7 secs | 1940s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about a spiritual dream she had after losing her mother.
Access No. 143377 | 44 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch with her baby daughter Lillian.
Access No. 143378 | 7 secs | 1950s | Fremantle, WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about a spiritual dream she had after having her daughter.
Access No. 143379 | 17 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS colour photograph of Joan Winch with her teenage daughter Lillian. MS photograph of Winch and Lillian in evening attire.
Access No. 143380 | 9 secs | 1970s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about a spiritual dream she had after having her daughter.
Access No. 143381 | 22 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Joan Winch's father in hat.
Access No. 143382 | 7 secs | 1960s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about her relationship with her father after her mother died.
Access No. 143383 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Joan Winch at bar with friends all holding bottles of alcohol. Zoom in to MS of Winch.
Access No. 143384 | 8 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about her relationship with her father as a teenager.
Access No. 143385 | 17 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Joan Winch in nurses uniform pulling lever. MS shot of Winch.
Access No. 143386 | 10 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about working in a psychiatric hospital.
Access No. 143387 | 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph with high angle view over Claremont psychiatric hospital. WS nurses' home and female nurses' administration building.
Access No. 143388 | 11 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Mental Health Museum of WA Inc | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about working with violent patients in a psychiatric hospital.
Access No. 143389 | 44 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU B&W photograph of Joan Winch with man.
Access No. 143391 | 6 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about growing up beyond her years.
Access No. 143392 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS B&W photograph of Joan Winch with two men, one with arm around her shoulders. Zoom into Winch and husband Harry, man with arm around her.
Access No. 143393 | 10 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the failure of her marriage to Harry.
Access No. 143394 | 9 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Joan Winch with hands behind her back.
Access No. 143395 | 5 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about leaving her marriage soon after her daughter was born.
Access No. 143396 | 3 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Joan Winch with toddler daughter Lillian and dog at their feet.
Access No. 143397 | 7 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about reasons for leaving her marriage soon after her daughter was born.
Access No. 143398 | 18 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Pan across B&W photograph of Aboriginal children playing in yard and on playground equipment.
Access No. 143399 | 13 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Battye Library, State Library of WA | B&W |
B&W group photograph of children at Sister Kate's Aboriginal children's home.
Access No. 143400 | 5 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about Aboriginal children's home Sister Kate's policy of only taking fair skinned Aboriginal children.
Access No. 143401 | 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Joan Winch's small daughter Kate sitting at her feet and tilt up Winch standing behind her. GS still of Winch standing with Lillian in sitting room.
Access No. 143402 | 13 secs | 1950s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the seven years spent at St Joseph's Hospital in Perth.
Access No. 143403 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival footage inside wards of St Joseph's Hospital with sister tending male patients, nurses in maternity ward and MS to babies side by side in cot.
Access No. 143404 | 12 secs | 1950s | Perth, WA, Australia | © Film World Pty Ltd | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about what she learnt at St Joseph's Hospital in Perth.
Access No. 143405 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Joan Winch standing on porch and closer shot of same.
Access No. 143406 | 9 secs | 1960s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about going to night school and excelling in human biology.
Access No. 143407 | 28 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Zoom in to Joan Winch in group photograph of nursing class. MS colour photograph of Winch with her second husband Mick Winch.
Access No. 143408 | 18 secs | 1960s | WA, Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the failure of her second marriage.
Access No. 143409 | 18 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W photograph of Joan Winch sitting in front of Taj Mahal. Colour photographs of Winch with Indian women and standing at door with Indian family during her study tour of community health.
Access No. 143410 | 18 secs | 1970s | India | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about what she learnt about nursing practice from the village programs she visited.
Access No. 143411 | 21 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour photograph of Joan Winch standing with colleagues in India. Colour photograph of man with Indian villagers.
Access No. 143412 | 9 secs | 1970s | India | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about what she learnt about nursing practices in India.
Access No. 143413 | 9 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Cover "Australian Nurses Look at China" from the July 1978 edition of the Australian Nurses journal.
Access No. 143414 | 8 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Australian Nursing Federation | Colour |
CU colour photograph of Joan Winch.
Access No. 143415 | 5 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about what she learnt about nursing practices in third world countries that she felt could be applied to Aboriginal nursing.
Access No. 143416 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour photograph of Aboriginal people learning CPR. GS Joan Winch with baby at Health Service.
Access No. 143417 | 11 secs | 1970s | Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about setting up a course where Aboriginal communities nominated someone from their community to be trained as their health worker.
Access No. 143418 | 26 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour footage Aboriginal health class with teacher standing at front of class and CUs to young women and men in class.
Access No. 143419 | 24 secs | 1970s | Australia | © World Health Organisation | Colour |
Colour photograph of Joan Winch in class with Aboriginal students and "Marr Mooditj" symbol on whiteboard.
Access No. 143420 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
CU Marr Mooditj poster featuring cupped hands around symbol on yellow background.
Access No. 143421 | 6 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Marr Mooditj Foundation Inc. | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about how she sees the role of Aboriginal health workers in their communities.
Access No. 143422 | 11 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour footage of health worker treating Aboriginal woman and CU to her massaging woman's foot. CU health worker treating eye of young Aboriginal boy with other CUs of children's eyes being examined. Zoom out from Aboriginal man pointing to his eye for health worker.
Access No. 143423 | 27 secs | 1980s | Australia | © World Health Organisation | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch explaining the negative cycle that Aboriginal people fell into with health care.
Access No. 143424 | 10 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W newspaper article titled "Joan Winch's ray of hope in Aboriginal health care" and accompanying photo of Winch with young girl.
Access No. 143425 | 6 secs | 1980s | Australia | © News Limited Pty Ltd | B&W |
B&W printed photograph with caption "Well Done, Joan!"
Access No. 143426 | 4 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Unknown | B&W |
MS colour photograph of Joan Winch.
Access No. 143427 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about her excitement at being nominated for the World Health Organisation Sasakawa Health Prize in 1978.
Access No. 143428 | 26 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour footage with CU tilt down World Health Organisation Sasakawa Health Prize trophy. High angle view over presentation ceremony on location in WHO auditorium in Geneva. CU Joan Winch giving acceptance speech at award presentation. Zoom out from smiling Australian delegate during Winch's speech.
Access No. 143429 | 35 secs | 1980s | Geneva, Switzerland | © World Health Organisation | Colour |
Colour footage of Exterior of Marr Mooditj Foundation College with LS to children playing in front of buildings.
Access No. 143430 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Marr Mooditj Foundation Inc. | Colour |
Colour GS of group around table in Marr Mooditj Foundation College with VS of them in discussion and writing.
Access No. 143431 | 11 secs | 1980s | Australia | © World Health Organisation | Colour |
CU educator Joan Winch's Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine from James Cook University of North Queensland. CU colour photograph of Winch in academic cap and gown.
Access No. 143433 | 13 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about balancing the Aboriginal approach to health with the western model.
Access No. 143434 | 14 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU of "Eat Healthy Tucker" campaign poster featuring Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch in apron and chef's hat.
Access No. 143435 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Department of Health, WA | Colour |
VS Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch with group in bush introducing bush tucker to group. GS young Aboriginal women around table drawing. Zoom in to CU of woman's face in intensive concentration.
Access No. 143436 | 35 secs | 1980s | Australia | © World Health Organisation | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about teaching the younger Aboriginal generation to be proud of their culture.
Access No. 143437 | 22 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W group photograph of prominent Australian women including Joan Winch, Ita Buttrose, Margaret Whitlam, Faith Bandler and others. CU to Winch in photograph.
Access No. 143438 | 9 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
CU colour photograph of Joan Winch on the cover of Australian Society Magazine with the headline 'Why Joan Winch needs $650,000.'
Access No. 143439 | 6 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about being having to be strong enough to fight for something you believe in.
Access No. 143440 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Magazine article headline "Aboriginal health worker wins international award" with photograph of Joan Winch with young Aboriginal boy.
Access No. 143441 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Evan Collis, Despene Clark | Colour |
CU to newspaper article caption "Award seen as smack on the hand for Government".
Access No. 143442 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © News Limited Pty Ltd | Colour |
B&W photograph of Joan Winch sitting at bench with other delegates at international meeting.
Access No. 143443 | 5 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Joan Winch | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the need to be forceful to fight for something you believe in.
Access No. 143444 | 13 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
CU to caption "Sister Joan Winch - a visionary?" on cover of magazine. Zoom out to photograph of Winch.
Access No. 143445 | 9 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Unknown | Colour |
Colour photograph of Joan Winch sitting with other Aboriginal women in bush car park with campervan in background.
Access No. 143446 | 7 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about having a spiritual revelation in the late 1970s.
Access No. 143447 | 27 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W portrait of Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch with spray of flowers on her jacket lapel.
Access No. 143448 | 6 secs | 1980s | Australia | © The West Australian Newspaper | B&W |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about having a spiritual revelation in the late 1970s which healed her back.
Access No. 143449 | 1 min 2 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Colour photograph of Joan Winch standing with her adult daughter Lillian in the bush.
Access No. 143450 | 7 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about having a spiritual revelation in the late 1970s which led her to helping Aboriginal people.
Access No. 143451 | 34 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS colour photograph of Joan Winch in academic cap and gown standing with her adult daughter Lillian and photograph of them sitting together at home.
Access No. 143452 | 10 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about being happier living away from cities. GS Winch walking through thick bush.
Access No. 143453 | 39 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS colour photograph of Joan Winch sitting amidst group of people holding bunch of flowers in her lap. Zoom out to show the large group around her.
Access No. 143454 | 10 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Joan Winch | Colour |
MS interview with Aboriginal health educator Joan Winch talking about the spiritual side of life.
Access No. 143455 | 53 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Closing credits over footage of Joan Winch walking through bush with VS of wildlife including birds and bees.
Access No. 143456 | 40 secs | 2000s | Australia | © NFSA | Colour |