Ian Brusasco discusses first joining the ALP in about 1960. He recounts that he headed a delegation of Australia's football team to the World Cup qualifiers held in Cambodia. Brusasco explains that he knew Mayor Clem Jones through their mutual interests in sport. He recalled that once Jones knew Brusasco was an ALP member, the next day Tom Burns, the ALP Secretary, phoned Brusasco looking for a candidate for the Kurilpa seat in the 1968-69 state election.
Anne Warner discusses how they ran the campaign for Kurilpa, calling meetings with various groups in the area from the unemployed to those living in boarding houses. As an openly left and female candidate, numerous people, of left political persuasion, from around Brisbane came and worked on the campaign. She won Kurilpa with a swing of four percent.
Anne Warner recalls hersef, Tim Quinn, Diane Fingleton and Cath Rafferty discussing who should run for preselection for the seat of Kurilpa. All were very conscious of the reasons they shouldn't run for the seat. Anne Warner was selected to run for the seat of Kurilpa.
Anne Warner states that for her early career, the right to march issue posed challenges to organising political meetings to discuss party issues. She says Joe Harris was instrumental in getting the unions involved with a left wing grouping that was pro-reform. Although there was much reform within the party, they did not feel they had a realistic chance of winning the seat of Kurilpa.
Anne Warner notes her years at university where she increased her political involvement and became secretary of the Student Union. Following this she stood for the seat of Kurilpa. Anne Warner discusses the issues related to preselection at the time, such as the setting up of an electorial council. The Labor Party was prominent in Kurilpa in the lead up to the election. Anne Warner was part of a group that formed the Socialist Left faction that reasserted the importance of ideological issues into party debate.
