In Part 1, Mary Rose Liverani speaks about living in a migrant hostel and a Housing Commission home in Unanderra. She also relates her experiences as a new girl at Wollongong High School. As Mary Rose goes on to study at Sydney University and begins work, she expresses the passions and insecurities of adolescence.
In Part 2, through anecdotes by turns poignant and hilarious, Mary Rose tells how she met her Italian husband and what happened when she worked at Wollongong Library.
Listen to Mary Rose’s Interview
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[Part 2]:
Mary Rose’s Photo Album
Mary Rose Dance Group – Fear (1995) 
Mary Rose – Family Photo 
Mary Rose Liverani 
Mary Rose Liverani 
Wollongong City Library – 1959 
Berkeley Hostel 
Berkeley Hostel Dining Room 
Dolph Murray – City Librarian – 1962 
Dolph Murray – City Librarian – c.1975 
P14983 – First commission house built by the Department of Housing in Albert Street, Unanderra 
Wollongong High School – 1957 
Wollongong High School Assembly Hall
Keywords
Berkeley Migrant Hostel – Wollongong High School – Feminism – Women Into Local Government – Italian Migrants – Wollongong Library – Unanderra – Sydney University – Film Censorship Board – Marriage
Mary Rose’s interview can be downloaded here: Part One and Part Two.
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