Talk:Reg Sprigg

message: There is a wealth of material which comes from the Sprigg family. As with all such material, neutrality will require a critical reading.
===Biography===
There is a biography, Rock Star: The Story of Reg Sprigg - outback legend written by his daughter-in-law, Kristin Weidenbach. According to Adelaide's Eastern Courier Messenger Weidenbach "never interviewed his children Margaret and Doug" because she "didn't want the familial ties to cloud the story."
Bruce Elder's SMH review of the biography says that he finds "not a word of criticism or harsh analysis".
In an interview in The 'Tiser, which pointed out that her formal qualifications were as "a PhD immunologist with qualifications from Stanford and Harvard medical schools" and that whilst she "gravitating into science writing. Becoming a biographer, however, was not part of her life plan". She began "collating and transcribing material about the famous Birdsville mailman, Tom Kruse, was a gesture towards her father and the team who had spent four years restoring Kruse's old truck. ... 'Before I knew it, I was writing a book,' she exclaims. The book was Mailman of the Birdsville Track: the Story of Tom Kruse." She goes on to outline her research for the biography.
Otherthinker (talk) 05:44, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: we can make use of published information. If the family knows something that is not in written form then it is not for Wikipedia.  Is there an archive available to the public say in a library?  This could be used.  The biography should be used as a source for this article.Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:36, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. I'm not suggesting that the Weidenbach bio not be used, but that it should be used with care to achieve neutrality especially when dealing with controversy or where there may be another point of view, eg Mawson-Ediacara (I haven't contributed on this yet), the dissolution of the first marriage (which I rewrote). Similarly: the Arkaroola website and Dune is a four-letter word are useful sources but need to be used bearing in mind the close family ties. Otherthinker (talk) 01:04, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

text: tehre is this talk http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/48927/2/Kristin%20Weidenbach.mp3 by Weidenbach, Kristin available online. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:46, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family sources 

message: There is a biography, Rock Star: The Story of Reg Sprigg - outback legend written by his daughter-in-law, Kristin Weidenbach. According to Adelaide's Eastern Courier Messenger Weidenbach "never interviewed his children Margaret and Doug" because she "didn't want the familial ties to cloud the story."
Bruce Elder's SMH review of the biography says that he finds "not a word of criticism or harsh analysis".
In an interview in The 'Tiser, which pointed out that her formal qualifications were as "a PhD immunologist with qualifications from Stanford and Harvard medical schools" and that whilst she "gravitating into science writing. Becoming a biographer, however, was not part of her life plan". She began "collating and transcribing material about the famous Birdsville mailman, Tom Kruse, was a gesture towards her father and the team who had spent four years restoring Kruse's old truck. ... 'Before I knew it, I was writing a book,' she exclaims. The book was Mailman of the Birdsville Track: the Story of Tom Kruse." She goes on to outline her research for the biography.
Otherthinker (talk) 05:44, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: we can make use of published information. If the family knows something that is not in written form then it is not for Wikipedia.  Is there an archive available to the public say in a library?  This could be used.  The biography should be used as a source for this article.Graeme Bartlett (talk) 06:36, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. I'm not suggesting that the Weidenbach bio not be used, but that it should be used with care to achieve neutrality especially when dealing with controversy or where there may be another point of view, eg Mawson-Ediacara (I haven't contributed on this yet), the dissolution of the first marriage (which I rewrote). Similarly: the Arkaroola website and Dune is a four-letter word are useful sources but need to be used bearing in mind the close family ties. Otherthinker (talk) 01:04, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

text: tehre is this talk http://digital.library.adelaide.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/2440/48927/2/Kristin%20Weidenbach.mp3 by Weidenbach, Kristin available online. Graeme Bartlett (talk) 02:46, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Biography

message: Whilst looking for a pre-1955 (ie out of copyright in Australia) image of Reg, explored the State Library of South Australia. Reg appears to have been interested in his family history. Seems SPRIGG family held pastoral lease at Oulnina: some wonderful images but no Reg!
Woolshed at Oulnina Station, South Australia. engraving. Date of creation: August 12, 1871.
Oulnina Station, 10 October 1875.
Port Germein appears to have been named for one of the Germeins. 
Otherthinker (talk) 03:56, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sprigg - Germein Family History 

message: The National archives have some material from the ASIO investigation.  See http://naa12.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=1526508 Graeme Bartlett (talk) 13:51, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I saw this on Wednesday: it is his ASIO file from 1949-1960 (ASIO formed in 1949) and has been redacted in part (sometimes that is just names blacked out, but sometimes whole sections are removed); I'm not in Canberra and it has not been digitised and I don't have the budget to get copies. For some context, there is Bernard O'Neil's South Australia and the Atomic Age - he's written the history of the SA Mines Dept from 1944 Above and Below. and interviewed Sprigg etc. Otherthinker (talk) 15:17, 22 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: National Archives