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Interview with Dr Marie Bashir (sound recording), interviewer: Amy McGrath
- Title
- Interview with Dr Marie Bashir (sound recording), interviewer: Amy McGrath
- Repository
- National Library of Australia Oral History Collection
- Reference
- TRC 838
- Date Range
- 20 April 1979
- Description
1 sound cassette (c. 90 minutes). Dr Bashir talks about her Lebanese background, husband Sir Nicholas Shehadie, choice of medicine as a career and her internship at St Vincent's Hospital; visit to Lebanon; work in government practice; taking up psychiatry; her directorship of Rivindell home for emotionally disturbed children; her position as Lady Mayoress and meeting the Queen.
- Access
- Access to be determines