Consedine, Robert Anthony, 1942-

Date: 14 Apr 1993

From: Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa oral history project

By: Reid, Mike, active 1980-1993

Reference: OHInt-0662/23

Description: Mike Reid backgrounds the formation of the Unemployed Workers Rights Centre in 1980. Refers to Bob Consedine and Ruth Palmer. Mentions decision to set up an advice centre and role of community volunteers. Refers to two strands - rights centre and alternative employment. Talks about formation of Unemployed Workers Union by Communist Party ca 1981 and eventual merging of the two groups. Describes Labour Department attitude to volunteers; Advocacy work and Department of Social Welfare. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Karen Davis Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-010391 Quantity: 1 C60 cassette(s) (side one). 1 printed abstract(s). 30 Minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3536.

Date: 18 Mar 2000

From: CORSO 50th anniversary oral history project

By: Consedine, Robert Anthony, 1942-

Reference: OHInt-0504/04

Description: Robert Anthony Consedine born Christchurch 1942. Outlines family background - working class Irish catholics from large families. Recalls being trained to be involved in community and with a strong sense of justice. Describes: school days at Addington Convent; sporting activities; childhood jobs and Catholic School system. Recalls on leaving St Bede's College going to work in Insurance Office for 4 years and National Service for 4 years and gives details of activities at Waiouru. Other topics discussed include: involvement with Catholic Youth Movement (YCW); Lay Apostolate, with reference to Bishop Brian Ashby; travel experience; work for St Vincent de Paul; organiser for CORSO; exposure to liberation movements; visit of Tissa Balisuriya from Sri Lanka in 1972; involvement with agency for The New Internationalist [development magazine]; trip to Asia with John Curnow in 1973; visit of Dennis Brutus, a South African poet to New Zealand; HART, with reference to Trevor Richards; involvement with non-violent direct action training, with reference to George Lakey and socio-drama; involvement with formation of group known as `Action against the tour'; Women's Movement; experience as house husband while wife, Trish, went out to work; court action against [Robert] Muldoon and Norm Jones; publishing of book `New Zealand 1984 Ltd'; feelings on leaving CORSO, with reference to Toby Truell; local parish community, with reference to Kevin Burns (Parish Priest); fight on electricity issue, aiming to create a national debate about price of electricity in proportion to income, and demonstrating the power of community, referring to visit to Christchurch from Bill Birch; Communism, with reference to North Korea; interest in alternatives to Capitalism; Work with Presbyterian Support Services; Project Waitangi, workshops and involvement with Nga Tahu and Irihapeti Ramsden. Talks about daughter's (Suzanne) death while on a training course at Outward Bound School, family's reaction, support from friends, funeral and result of inquest. Access Contact - see oral history librarian Interviewer(s) - Cecily McNeill Accompanying material - Article on report into death of Suzannah Consedine during an Outward Bound programme Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-011173-011178; OHLC-005460-005465 Quantity: 5 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 4.10 Hours and minutes Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-3909. 2 coloured photographs of Robert Consedine 18-3-2000

Date: 1989-1996

From: King, Michael (Dr), 1945-2004: Collection

Reference: 97-042-01/03

Description: Includes greeting cards; photographs from Joy Cowley showing where she lives in the Marlborough Sounds; remembrance card with photo of the death of Suzanne Consedine; account by Chris Cole Catley of her experiences in Los Angeles during the 1994 earthquake; obituary for G T Chapman; review by Peter Coleman of B Eley's biography of Ion Idriess, correspondence relating to Colyers Island Rehabilitation Programme (A project of Southland Community Council on Substance Abuse (Inc) based in Invercargill). Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts and printed matter