Australia 20

Listen to Australia 20, a 22-year-old woman from rural New South Wales (near Macksville and Bowraville), Australia. Click or tap the triangle-shaped play button to hear the subject.

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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

AGE: 22

DATE OF BIRTH (DD/MM/YYYY): 22/10/1986

PLACE OF BIRTH: Macksville, Australia

GENDER: female

ETHNICITY: Caucasian

OCCUPATION: student

EDUCATION: college

AREA(S) OF RESIDENCE OUTSIDE REPRESENTATIVE REGION FOR LONGER THAN SIX MONTHS:

The subject lived in Sydney for three years before this recording.

OTHER INFLUENCES ON SPEECH: N/A

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RECORDED BY: David Nevell

DATE OF RECORDING (DD/MM/YYYY): 04/07/2008

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ORTHOGRAPHIC TRANSCRIPTION OF UNSCRIPTED SPEECH:

I’m from a small town.  A coastal town … um … in New South Wales.  With a population of six thousand.  It was mainly kind of farmers … cattle … milk … um … agriculture … town.  My dad’s an accountant, my mom’s a teacher, and I grew up there until I was 18.  Um, on a farm.  And then moved to Sydney, where I’m now studying university.  Bowraville’s a town near us …where we used to live on the farm.  It was kind of Bowraville and Macksville — we were in between them. So I got the bus to school every day in an hour and there was a lot of… There was sometimes some little fights.  Um, but … yeah.  Bowraville’s a big Aboriginal town, a community, and, um, kind of under … very underprivileged.  Some of the people in the town.  Bowraville’s an interesting town. They kind of have a … a really … um … interesting mix of Aboriginals living there.  It was a lot of … um … uh, what do they call them?

TRANSCRIBED BY: Joe Calarco (under supervision of David Nevell)

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