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  • Tags: Upper Darling

(L to R) Dwayne Willoughbys brother in law, Troy and another of his brothers in law, 2006
Images were sourced by the Talking Fish project team from Dwayne Willoughby on the day of his oral history interview.

Position: 44 (57 views)

Riparian area, Upper Darling region, [n.d]
Images were sourced by the Talking Fish project team from Phillip Sullivan and some were taken on the day of his oral history interview.

Position: 69 (44 views)

Phillip Sullivan (L) and a representative from the New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council (R), Tamworth (NSW), 18 October 2010.
Phillip Sullivan grew up on the Brewarrina Aboriginal Mission in the 1960s with his immediate and extended family. For Phillip, life on the river as a Ngemba man revolved around the Barwon River with fishing and swimming being favourite pastimes for…

Position: 11 (134 views)

Anne Marie Parnaby with baby and cod 1988-05-01
Images were sourced by the Talking Fish project team from Phillip Parnaby on the day of his oral history interview.

Position: 19 (91 views)

Portrait of Phillip Parnaby, oral history interview, 2010
An interview in three parts with Phillip Parnaby.

Phillip has lived in Bourke his entire life and in this interview he talks about his experience fishing while growing up in a family of eight, when fish were a large part of their diet. He explains…

Position: 29 (70 views)

Feli McHughes in Brewarrina (NSW), 11 December 2010.
Feli McHughes is a Ngemba man from the Upper Darling region of Brewarrina. His passion about the Brewarrina Ngemba Billabong and the wider river system has seen him involved in a number of projects with numerous organisations. His visions for the…

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Keith Coleman and Max Jeffrey, Brewarrina (NSW), 1 December 2010.
An interview in two parts with Keith Coleman and Max Jeffrey.

Keith grew up in Brewarrina and learned to fish with his father. He learned to swim in the river, and remembers how clear the water was - clear enough that people could go spearfishing.…

Position: 57 (49 views)

Frawley2012Page178.tif
The data from this study region includes 7 oral histories (audio as mp3s, and transcripts) and 3 image galleries, as well as a georeferenced hand-drawn map of the area.

Bourke was once the end of the line for most of the paddlesteamers that made…

Position: 44 (57 views)