Joy Ardill discusses factional arrangements in the ALP including Tom Burns and the Old Guard and the Electrical Trades Union (ETU) who were an Old Guard union opposed to Jack Egerton.
Joy Ardill discusses the influence that senior ALP officeholders who were members of local branches had over the formation or rejection of a proposed new ALP branch on the Gold Coast. She describes how the new branch was finally formed, and its role in local ALP political life.
David Williams talks about his working relations with different Ministers and dealing with changes to the structure of government departments. He comments on how public service executives can have to prove themselves to new Ministers. He describes the period of administrative transition after the Borbidge government came to office, and appointments to the boards of GOCs.
Nic Bos discusses his plan in 1969 to start as a temporary organiser and work up in the hierarchy of the ALP office but instead started as a temporary union official.
