Namoi: Oral History of Phil Duncan
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145985' target='_blank'>Weirs</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6272' target='_blank'>Floods</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003006652' target='_blank'>Traditional ecological knowledge</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008120678' target='_blank'>Fishing--Australia</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5868' target='_blank'>Racism</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4510' target='_blank'>Cotton</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/8797' target='_blank'>Silt</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/973' target='_blank'>Water quality</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/3693' target='_blank'>Water pollution</a>
<a href='http://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/items/show/397' target='_blank'>Cultural Flows</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85027414' target='_blank'>Coalbed methane</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91005990' target='_blank'>Aquifers--Australia</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85035028' target='_blank'>Cyanides</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94007041' target='_blank'>Riparian areas</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1049' target='_blank'>Ecological sustainability</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4309' target='_blank'>Environmental conservation</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4994' target='_blank'>Salinity</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6865' target='_blank'>Sacred sites</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/15435' target='_blank'>Connection to Country</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/280' target='_blank'>Land custodianship</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/260' target='_blank'>Aboriginal spirituality (Baiame)</a>
<a href='http://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/communities/wiradjuri-0' target='_blank'>Wiradjuri people</a>
<a href='http://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/communities/gamilaraay-gamilaroi-kamilaroi' target='_blank'>Gamilaraay / Gamilaroi / Kamilaroi language</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008008351' target='_blank'>Water--Symbolic aspects</a>
An interview in four parts.
Phil Duncan is an Aboriginal man with both Wiradjuri and Gamilaraay heritage. He identifies predominantly as a Gamilaraay man who grew up in Moree in northern New South Wales. Born in 1963, Phil is Chair of the First Peoples' Water Engagement Council and has witnessed a number of important changes in this region regarding cotton farming, weirs and dams, and the water quality.
Phil is knowledgeable in his heritage and emphasises the importance of Aboriginal connection to Country, and caring for Country as an important responsibility for Aboriginal people. He recommends that traditional Aboriginal knowledges be adhered to regarding the conservation of Country as Western land management methods have had a detrimental impact.
Mentioned:
Turtles, sheep & cattle (farming), worms.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2011-03-01
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Upper Murrumbidgee: Oral History of Adrian Brown
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1511' target='_blank'>Places of significance</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/581' target='_blank'>Community cooperation</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/280' target='_blank'>Land custodianship</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/255' target='_blank'>Aboriginal culture</a>
<a href='http://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/communities/wiradjuri-0' target='_blank'>Wiradjuri people</a>
<a href='http://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/communities/Walgalu' target='_blank'>Walgalu / Walgal people</a>
<a href='http://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/communities/ngarigu#' target='_blank'>Ngarigo / Ngarigu people</a>
<a href='http://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/communities/Ngunawal' target='_blank'>Ngunawal / Ngunnawal people
</a>
<a href='http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/kurnai.htm' target='_blank'>Kurnai / Gunai people</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/2955' target='_blank'>Burial sites</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6865' target='_blank'>Sacred sites</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003006652' target='_blank'>Traditional ecological knowledge</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/15435' target='_blank'>Connection to Country</a>
An interview in five parts with Adrian Brown.
Adrian talks about growing up along the River (around Queanbeyan River, Jumping Creek, and Wanna Wanna Creek) and the way that he and his brother learnt the land by walking it and fishing the river with their Dad. He talks about historical sites and significant sites; expressing continuity with Country; making Coolamons; the significance of Country; traditional ceremony; initiation rites; right of passage; the duty of care for different animals as part of an interconnected environment; and recognising law and responsibility for Country. He also discusses the interaction and movements of peoples along the catchment (relaying the history of the Ngunawal and their responsibility to the Murrumbidgee corridor and their relation to coastal peoples); trading; and shared vocabulary across language groups from the top of the Murrumbidgee to Lakes Entrance.
Adrian covers the effects of housing developments on cultural practice; weeds; variance in fish population according to river flow; lighting fires; cultural burns; site management; discrimination; ignorance; and work with the ACT government to promote the recognition and understanding of Indigenous Australian interests.
Adrian also shares his experience as an Aboriginal Liaison Officer with the ACT National Parks and Wildlife Service and his sense of pride and belonging. He talks about efforts to refocus the connection to Country of Indigenous Australians employed as rangers, and to promote a cultural mindfulness among them. He speculates how Indigenous people could again be welcomed by the Ngunawal as National Parks officers - all learning and walking the land together.
Adrian discusses how fish travel up the river when it floods; mixing traditional and modern fishing methods; sources of sediment (sand from Tharwa, dirt from Cooma, Bredbo and Numeralla Rivers); clay baking fish; mussels (saltwater and freshwater); abalone; native plants.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-10-05
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Henry Jones
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1455' target='_blank'>Fishing industry</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1455' target='_blank'>Fisheries</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1049' target='_blank'>Ecological sustainability</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008175.html' target='_blank'>Sustainable fisheries</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85114241' target='_blank'>River engineering</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/973' target='_blank'>Water quality</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/867' target='_blank'>Water resources</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048621' target='_blank'>Fishes--Breeding</a>
An interview in three parts with Henry Jones.
Born in 1941, Henry is a sixth generation commercial fisher, and also ran a yabby restaurant for thirty years. He talks about learning to fish from his father, a commercial fisherman at Renmark, in the Riverland; and his grandfather, a First World War veteran. Henry is a member of the Community Stakeholder Taskforce for the Murray-Darling Basin Native Fish Strategy. His commercial licence covers Lake Albert, Lake Alexandrina, Coorong, and the Great Southern Ocean three nautical miles out from Goolwa to Kingston.
Henry talks about: his fishery's World First Environmental Management Plan and Marine Stewardship; the difference between fishing methods/equipment in the Riverland compared with the windy conditions of the Lakes, Coorong and ocean; sustainable fishing practice; effects of water over allocation (upstream); the lack of intermediate floods from the Murray and Darling, affecting the breeding cycle of fish; salt from irrigation; hypersalinity of Coorong, and possible solutions; the closure of the Murray mouth in 1981; counting bird species; and the increase of seals, sting ray, barnacles, and tube worm in the Coorong (now a marine environment); 1992 flood; plant species.
Other fish species mentioned: 'bull nosed mullet'.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2011-02-11
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Culgoa - Balonne: Oral History of Robert Lacey
<a href='http://archives.samuseum.sa.gov.au/tindaletribes/wakawaka.htm' target='_blank'>Waka Waka / Wakka Wakka people</a>
<a href='http://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/communities/Mandandanji' target='_blank'>Mandandanji people</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048775' target='_blank'>Fishes--Identification</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/9862' target='_blank'>Native plants</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/280' target='_blank'>Land custodianship</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/15435' target='_blank'>Connection to Country</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/260' target='_blank'>Dreaming (Spiritual)</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072568' target='_blank'>Kitchen-middens--Australia</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/973' target='_blank'>Water quality</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5397' target='_blank'>Erosion</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/825' target='_blank'>Farming</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4929' target='_blank'>Deforestation</a>
<a href='http://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/items/show/401' target='_blank'>Aboriginal fish traps</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1511' target='_blank'>Places of significance</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5952' target='_blank'>Land degradation</a>
<a href='http://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/items/show/402' target='_blank'>Water allocations</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4315' target='_blank'>Water conservation</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4510' target='_blank'>Cotton</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/3693' target='_blank'>Water pollution</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85116794' target='_blank'>Salinization</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001000600' target='_blank'>River rehabilitation</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/266' target='_blank'>Aboriginal history</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/825' target='_blank'>Farming</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5366' target='_blank'>Droughts</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96006425' target='_blank'>Introduced fishes</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6713' target='_blank'>Water wells</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072788' target='_blank'>Mandandanji (Australian people)</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/6865' target='_blank'>Sacred sites</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/589' target='_blank'>Activism</a>
An interview in two parts with Robert Lacey.
Robert Lacey is an Indigenous man who has resided in the St George area in southern Queensland most his life. His people are the traditional owners of the land: his mother is a Mandandanji woman, while his father is a Waka Waka man.
Robert discusses the connection he has with the land and the river, he expresses the honour he feels in being trusted to take care of Country. He discusses the history of the river and its declining health; commercial use of the river; and the work he personally does on recording the sites of cultural significance and heritage sites finding over 100 in just a few years. He says that the river is a source of peace, tranquility, food, leisure - the life blood of the land.
Robert also mentions the Great Artesian Basin Sustainability Initiative (GABSI) and his elation at the 1967 Australian Referendum and what it meant for Aboriginal people, and also the political activism by his family.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
Hamish Sewell
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-10-08
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
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Anabranch: Oral History of Jenny Whyman
<a href='http://indigenous.sl.nsw.gov.au/communities/paakantyi' target='_blank'>Paakantyi / Paakantji / Barkindji people</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85048775' target='_blank'>Fishes--Identification</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/1353' target='_blank'>Crustaceans</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/2978' target='_blank'>Indigenous foods</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4510' target='_blank'>Cotton</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85145985' target='_blank'>Weirs</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/280' target='_blank'>Land custodianship</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/266' target='_blank'>Aboriginal history</a>
<a href='http://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/items/show/397' target='_blank'>Cultural flows</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/15435' target='_blank'>Connection to Country</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85128574' target='_blank'>River flow</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/4510' target='_blank'>Cotton</a>
<a href='http://vocabulary.curriculum.edu.au/scot/5366' target='_blank'>Droughts</a>
<a href='http://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/items/show/402' target='_blank'>Water allocations</a>
<a href='http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2003006652' target='_blank'>Traditional ecological knowledge</a>
An interview in three parts with Jenny Whyman, a Paakintji woman and representative on the Northern Basins Aboriginal
Nations Committee (NBAN).
Born in 1956, Jenny talks about families and growing up on the river at a camp on the Darling at Menindee; living, working and playing together. She discusses the drought years from 1985 and the blue-green algae bloom that ran from Mungindi to Menindee. Jenny also speaks about what cultural flows are, and how they are important as they are the inherent water entitlements of Indigenous Nations.
Mention of perch as a significant part of diet however species is undefined; Witchetty grubs, turtles, eagles, porcupine, kangaroo.
Heather Goodall
Jodi Frawley
University of Technology, Sydney
2010-11-11
Murray-Darling Basin Authority
NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries
Copyright University of Technology, Sydney
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