Matt Foley comments on an early career position as a Child Welfare Officer and describes time spent travelling in the United Kingdom before moving to live in a Kibbutz in Israel.
Matt Foley describes his employment options following the completion of his senior school certificate and recalls an amusing anecdote about a meeting with senior members of the Air Force at the Officer Academy at Point Cook.
Ruth Matchett describes her education at St Aidan's Anglican Girls School at Corinda and gaining an honours degree in Social Work from UQ. Upon graduation she took up a position as social worker with the Ipswich Community Health Service. These community health services were an initiative of the Whitlam Government set up as multi-disciplinary teams. Federally funded but state run, the community centres were different in Queensland as they did not contain primary health care.
