Browse Items (177 total)
- Collection: Talking Fish
Upper Condamine: Images from the Allora Museum
Images of local history, including fishing prongs and the infamous 'Talgai skull', reported to be the first fossil evidence of human occupation, found in the…
Tags: Condamine, Fossils, Local history
Position: 169 (73 views)
Upper Condamine: Oral History of Dessie Obst
Tags: Bait fishing, Condamine, Cotton, Fish stocking, Fishes--Breeding, Fishes--Identification, Recreational fisher, Weirs
Position: 129 (86 views)
Upper Condamine: Oral History of Geoffrey Reilly
Geoffrey Riley is the owner of the property 'Lennie Brae' that has been in his family for generations. Geoffrey speaks of the changes as a result of the weirs, flood irrigation, and fish ways. He talks about a…
Tags: Birds--Identification, Condamine, Crustaceans, Fish stocking, Fishes--Breeding, Fishes--Identification, Irrigation, Landholder, No-till farming, Plants--Identification, Reptiles--Identification, Vertisols, Weirs
Position: 59 (123 views)
Upper Condamine: Oral History of Ray and Olive Shooter
The Shooters speak of their experience living next to Dalrymple Creek, a tributary of the Condamine. Ray talks about the changes he has observed in the creek over almost 80 years, its transformation, and…
Tags: Birds--Identification, Condamine, Crustaceans, Fishes--Identification, Fishes--Migration, Floods, Introduced species, Landholder, No-till farming, Plants--Identification, Reptiles--Identification, Water--Law and legislation
Position: 128 (87 views)
Upper Condamine River
The Condamine River is one of the major tributaries of the Darling River…
Tags: Condamine, Githabul people
Position: 24 (191 views)
Paroo River
Tags: Paroo
Position: 29 (171 views)
Darling River - Bourke to Brewarrina
Bourke was once the end of the line for most of the paddlesteamers that made…
Tags: Droughts, Introduced species, Muruwari / Murrawarri people, Ngiyambaa / Ngemba language, Rainfall frequencies, Upper Darling, Yuwaalaraay / Euahlayi / Yuwaaliyaay language
Position: 44 (144 views)
Namoi River
The data from this study region includes 7 oral histories (audio as mp3s, and transcripts) and 4 image galleries, as well as a georeferenced hand-drawn map of the area.
The Namoi River is fed by the rivers of the western slopes of…
Position: 80 (108 views)
Upper Murrumbidgee River
The Upper Murrumbidgee meanders through the Snowy Mountains in south‐eastern New South Wales, snaking its…
Position: 84 (106 views)
Ovens River
The Ovens River rises in the Victorian Alps where it is linked to significant…
Position: 155 (77 views)