'Ted Egan talks about: the attraction of Alice Springs and Darwin; Sydney Williams hut; white Australian prejudices, Catholicism; mixed-race friends; musical comedy society; Japanese bombing (1942), Chinese; Buffalo Lodge; Northern Standard newspaper; Vestey's strike; unions in Darwin; Jack McGuinness; Aboriginal rights, Kungarakan people; marriage of Alngindabu and Steve McGuinness; prospectors, tin, Lucy Mine; Litchfield National Park; intermarriage; Aboriginals Ordinance; the book Capricornia; the McGuinness family; Australian Rules Football and Rugby league; St Mary's Football Club; Tiwi players; learning Tiwi songs and language; coaching Aboriginal children; Darwin life; Aboriginal affairs; marriage; grass fighters; Piersscne family; Tiny Swanson; Steve Abala; Mainoru; Garden Point Catholic Mission; Missionaries of the Sacred Heart; Lutherans; Catholics; Jesuits; Methodists Overseas Missions; Anglicans; Roper River; Groote Eylandt; tobacco; Native Affairs personnel; polygamy; Wallaby Creek; his career and becoming a District Officer (1966); cyclone; Aboriginal desire for a traditional life; Manganese mining; Borroloola; David Attenborough; Roger Jose; Carnegie Institute; Arthur Calwell; Tank House; Fred Grey; Court cases; adoption of Aboriginal children; correspondence (1933-35); Marjorie Grey; Joe McGuinness; Melville Bay; Broome; conflict with the Japanese; trepang; the book, Justice all their own; Yuendumu; Baptists; John Guise; community self-sufficiency and investments; Central Land Council; finances; pay inequity; colonisation; Aboriginal education and employment; volunteers; Lingua franca; and Adelaide.' (Source: TROVE)
