The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:![\"685bae3a5a9834d15be2b0939ae28264.jpg\"](\"http://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/square_thumbnails/685bae3a5a9834d15be2b0939ae28264.jpg\")
"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3035"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3036"},["text","Adam Pascoe"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3037"},["text","Ron Dawson"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"4"},["name","Location"],["description","The location of the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3038"},["text","Everton, Victoria"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10423"},["text","Part 1 00:19:25"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10424"},["text","Part 2 00:18:36"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3022"},["text","Ovens: Oral History of Adam Pascoe and Ron Dawson"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3023"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3024"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3025"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3026"},["text","2011-02-17"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3027"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3028"},["text","NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3029"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3030"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3031"},["text","audio/mpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3032"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3033"},["text","Open access"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3034"},["text","CC-BY"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4602"},["text","An interview in two parts with Adam Pascoe and Ron Dawson.\r\n\r\nAdam and Ron talk about the conditions that fish find favourable to breed in. They recall the effect of the Black Saturday Fires (2009), the 'chocolate river' event, and the Yarrabulla mudslide (2006/2007). They also make reference to the 1939 black water event. They speak of the decline of the tobacco industry and the anecdotal belief that fish have rebounded as a consequence. Ron remembers his time serving on the Ovens River Management Board, renamed Northeast Waterways and later the Northeast Catchment Management Authority. He talks about environmental politics and his experience advocating for the restoration of fish habitat and biodiversity. Adam talks about his involvement with the Northeast Catchment Management Authority and their efforts to replant native species and reintroduce snags. \r\n\r\nThey both talk about fishing lures, setlines, springers and keeper nets. They mention snakes, competitive fishing, snorkeling, and discuss what they like about fishing.\r\n\r\nMention of sugar gliders, platypus, phascogale, eastern water rats, bandicoots, tiger snakes, red belly black snakes, brown snakes, black snakes.\r\n\r\nMention of Arthur Rylah institute, Ovens River Improvement Trust, Ovens River Management Board, Northeast Waterways, Northeast Catchment Management Authority, Mulwala Classic Invitational, Cod Opening Classic, Myrtleford Fishing Club"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4603"},["text","Water quality"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7565"},["text","Bushfires"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7566"},["text","Fish kills"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9273"},["text","Clearcutting"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9274"},["text","Fishes--Breeding"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9275"},["text","Pesticides"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9276"},["text","Fishing--Australia"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9277"},["text","Restoration ecology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9278"},["text","Stream restoration"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9279"},["text","Lure fishing"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9280"},["text","Environmental conservation"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7554"},["text"," Echuca (Victoria)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7555"},["text","Rocky Point (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7556"},["text","Whorouly (Victoria)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7557"},["text","Yea (Victoria)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7558"},["text","Myrtleford (Victoria)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7559"},["text","Lake Buffalo (Victoria)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7560"},["text","Everton (Victoria)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7561"},["text","Wangaratta (Victoria)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7562"},["text","Yarrawonga (Victoria)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7563"},["text","Mulwala (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7564"},["text","Beechworth (NSW)"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"164"},["name","Bushfires"]],["tag",{"tagId":"106"},["name","Deforestation"]],["tag",{"tagId":"148"},["name","Environmental conservation"]],["tag",{"tagId":"161"},["name","Fish kills"]],["tag",{"tagId":"152"},["name","Fisheries--Equipment and supplies"]],["tag",{"tagId":"122"},["name","Fishes--Breeding"]],["tag",{"tagId":"166"},["name","Lure fishing"]],["tag",{"tagId":"38"},["name","Ovens"]],["tag",{"tagId":"162"},["name","Pesticides"]],["tag",{"tagId":"7"},["name","Recreational fisher"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]],["tag",{"tagId":"159"},["name","Stream restoration"]],["tag",{"tagId":"52"},["name","Water quality"]]]],["item",{"itemId":"241","public":"1","featured":"0"},["fileContainer",["file",{"fileId":"2170","order":"1"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/a62d24b1442358d39a78cd57abc73b7c.doc"],["authentication","6b90e731da114727c82f098ea1856e74"]],["file",{"fileId":"783","order":"2"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/be0707bcff4270e46f2a7622f7a8f0bc.mp3"],["authentication","26e2243ee5b0c6475f4ae86922706c44"]],["file",{"fileId":"784","order":"3"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/3134061bd5669786256c694067eedaa0.mp3"],["authentication","a79ff36b9ab4f6388ec2743cfeff0de4"]],["file",{"fileId":"785","order":"4"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/b4addb63b6647f626db0e486300841ad.mp3"],["authentication","9a21328df8782992d3632f699d4239e2"]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"24"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1887"},["text","Talking Fish"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1888"},["text","Historical studies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1889"},["text","History and archaeology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1911"},["text","Environmental science and management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1912"},["text","Environmental history"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1913"},["text","Aquatic ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1890"},["text","Talking Fish is a research data collection of oral histories and local knowledge in building community participation in Murray-Darling Basin river rehabilitation. It includes a cross section of age, class, gender, and Indigenous Australian communities."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1892"},["text","The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3151"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3152"},["text","Henry Jones"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"4"},["name","Location"],["description","The location of the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3153"},["text","Clayton, VIC"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10311"},["text","Part 1 00:20:15"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10312"},["text","Part 2 00:20:17"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10313"},["text","Part 3 00:09:53"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3138"},["text","Coorong and Lower Lakes: Oral History of Henry Jones"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3139"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3140"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3141"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3142"},["text","2011-02-11"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3143"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3144"},["text","NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3145"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3146"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3147"},["text","audio/mpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3148"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3149"},["text","Open access"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3150"},["text","CC-BY"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3702"},["text","An interview in three parts with Henry Jones.\r\n\r\nBorn 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. \r\n\r\nHenry 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.\r\n\r\nOther fish species mentioned: 'bull nosed mullet'.\r\n"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8076"},["text","Lake George, SA\r\n"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10146"},["text","Lake Alexandrina, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10147"},["text","Lake Albert, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10148"},["text","The Coorong, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10149"},["text","Goolwa, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10150"},["text","Clayton, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10151"},["text","Finniss, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10152"},["text","Currency Creek, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10153"},["text","Bremer tributary"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10154"},["text","Angus tributary"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10155"},["text","Adelaide, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10156"},["text","Murray Mouth, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10157"},["text","Renmark, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10158"},["text","Riverland, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10159"},["text","Lindsay Creek Reach"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10160"},["text","Wollnock Bend [near Renmark], SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10161"},["text","Melbourne, VIC"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10162"},["text","Semaphore, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10163"},["text","Woodside, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10164"},["text","Great Southern Ocean"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10165"},["text","Kingston, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10166"},["text","Mildura, VIC"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10167"},["text","Point Sturt, VIC"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10168"},["text","Wellington Weir, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10169"},["text","Mannum, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10170"},["text","Morgan, SA"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10171"},["text","Salt Creek, SA"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"90"},["name","Provenance"],["description","A statement of any changes in ownership and custody of the resource since its creation that are significant for its authenticity, integrity, and interpretation. The statement may include a description of any changes successive custodians made to the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9253"},["text","This transcript has been edited to reflect the corrections made by Henry Jones to the original version. The audio recording has not been edited."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9945"},["text","Fishing industry"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9946"},["text","Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9947"},["text","Ecological sustainability"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9948"},["text","Sustainable fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9949"},["text","River engineering"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9950"},["text","Water quality"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9951"},["text","Water resources"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9952"},["text","Fishes--Breeding"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"92"},["name","Aboriginal spirituality"]],["tag",{"tagId":"177"},["name","Aquifers--Australia"]],["tag",{"tagId":"174"},["name","Barrages"]],["tag",{"tagId":"41"},["name","Coorong"]],["tag",{"tagId":"85"},["name","Cultural flows"]],["tag",{"tagId":"58"},["name","Dams--Australia"]],["tag",{"tagId":"91"},["name","Ecological sustainability"]],["tag",{"tagId":"122"},["name","Fishes--Breeding"]],["tag",{"tagId":"60"},["name","Fishing industry"]],["tag",{"tagId":"63"},["name","Fishing regulations"]],["tag",{"tagId":"49"},["name","Floods"]],["tag",{"tagId":"53"},["name","Irrigation"]],["tag",{"tagId":"83"},["name","Land custodianship"]],["tag",{"tagId":"100"},["name","Livestock"]],["tag",{"tagId":"10"},["name","Professional fisher"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]],["tag",{"tagId":"56"},["name","Riparian areas"]],["tag",{"tagId":"154"},["name","River engineering"]],["tag",{"tagId":"109"},["name","Salinisation"]],["tag",{"tagId":"94"},["name","Siltation"]],["tag",{"tagId":"172"},["name","Sustainable fisheries"]],["tag",{"tagId":"81"},["name","Traditional ecological knowledge"]],["tag",{"tagId":"52"},["name","Water quality"]]]],["item",{"itemId":"283","public":"1","featured":"0"},["fileContainer",["file",{"fileId":"1280"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/bdbd3250051b363b74ff13f519ac4484.mp3"],["authentication","586c260b09cdb41a7076c7a039306d9e"]],["file",{"fileId":"1281"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/d7e5f4b9201bed2cac20418b70a52cfe.mp3"],["authentication","4a4c7b00c5144fe756ed852d993fde62"]],["file",{"fileId":"1282"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/7f31246312075154d641f906a6b0569e.mp3"],["authentication","2f0c70b567baacd9f675bd94411e1da2"]],["file",{"fileId":"1283"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/93fa138b94e7b4dd9cd32238e1e4dcd9.doc"],["authentication","0d6754dfd108c0dcf882db44537cca30"]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"24"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1887"},["text","Talking Fish"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1888"},["text","Historical studies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1889"},["text","History and archaeology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1911"},["text","Environmental science and management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1912"},["text","Environmental history"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1913"},["text","Aquatic ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1890"},["text","Talking Fish is a research data collection of oral histories and local knowledge in building community participation in Murray-Darling Basin river rehabilitation. It includes a cross section of age, class, gender, and Indigenous Australian communities."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1892"},["text","The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3793"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3794"},["text","Richard Kennedy"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"4"},["name","Location"],["description","The location of the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3795"},["text","Wodonga, Victoria, Australia"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10243"},["text","Part 1 00:21:11"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10244"},["text","Part 2 00:15:54"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10245"},["text","Part 3 00:25:11"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3780"},["text","Murray: Oral History of Richard Kennedy"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3781"},["text","Richard Kennedy is an Aboriginal man residing in Wodonga, Victoria. Born in 1959, Richard grew up on the Lachlan River in central New South Wales with his family and currently works with the Catchment Management Authority (CMA) in the Wodonga area.\r\n\r\nIn the interview, Richard discusses his life growing up around the river with his family and how it was a central part of his life. He tells of his cultural connection with the land and the need to maintain and pass on that connection and knowledge; something that is being done through his CMA work with Aboriginal men. He says that Aboriginal people are losing their connections to Country and culture where colonisation played a pivotal role. He notes that his situation is not helped by the declining health of the land and rivers that he says have been affected by introduced fish and plant species such as the European carp and willow trees. \r\n\r\nRichard also speaks extensively about floods and how withholding the water impacts on the nature of the land as a floodplain; the types of fish, animals and plant life that are present; and his work in conservation, largely influenced by the sustainable practices embedded within his Aboriginal culture.\r\n\r\nRichard also mentions also where he has found Trout Cod: Murrumbidgee, Murray River, Yarrawonga, Old Man Creek, Hay.\r\n\r\nAlso mentioned: Worms, Rabbits, Fish, Kangaroos, Emus. Possums. Antechinuses. Barking owl, Sugar Gliders. Platypus. Willows. Blackberry. Osage Orange. Briar Rose. Patterson’s Curse. Scotch Thistle.\r\n"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3782"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3783"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3784"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3785"},["text","2010-11-15"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3786"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3787"},["text","NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3788"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3789"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3790"},["text","audio/mpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3791"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3792"},["text","Permission to reuse this data may be sought from the Rights Holder, by contacting atsida@lib.uts.edu.au."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5098"},["text","CC BY-NC-ND"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"88"},["name","Mediator"],["description","An entity that mediates access to the resource and for whom the resource is intended or useful. In an educational context, a mediator might be a parent, teacher, teaching assistant, or care-giver."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5099"},["text","Unmediated registration for reuse. Interviewee's consent condition: Future researchers need to contact Richard Kennedy for further use."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5506"},["text","Fishes--Identification"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5507"},["text","Floods"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5508"},["text","Weirs"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5509"},["text","Brackish waters"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5510"},["text","Floodplain ecology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5511"},["text","Colonisation"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5512"},["text","Cotton"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5513"},["text","Connection to Country"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5514"},["text","Aboriginal technologies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5515"},["text","Traditional ecological knowledge"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5516"},["text","Cultural Flows"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5517"},["text","Rice"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9293"},["text","Ngiyampaa / Ngemba people"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9906"},["text","Restoration ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6391"},["text","Lachlan River, New South Wales"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6392"},["text","Willandra Creek, New South Wales"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6393"},["text","Wodonga, Victoria"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6394"},["text","Murray River"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6395"},["text","Euabalong, New South Wales."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6396"},["text","Lake Cargelligo, New South Wales"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6397"},["text","Booberoi Creek, New South Wales."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6398"},["text","Murrin Bridge Mission, New South Wales"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8011"},["text","Places also mentioned: \r\nWakool Creek (NSW), Wakool River (NSW), Murrumbidgee (NSW/ACT), Yarrawonga (VIC), Old Man Creek (NSW), Hay (NSW)."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"91"},["name","Rights Holder"],["description","A person or organization owning or managing rights over the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7521"},["text","Re-use: Richard Kennedy"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"75"},["name","Colonisation"]],["tag",{"tagId":"79"},["name","Connection to country"]],["tag",{"tagId":"64"},["name","Cotton"]],["tag",{"tagId":"85"},["name","Cultural flows"]],["tag",{"tagId":"57"},["name","Fishes--Identification"]],["tag",{"tagId":"120"},["name","Flood plains"]],["tag",{"tagId":"49"},["name","Floods"]],["tag",{"tagId":"20"},["name","Indigenous peoples"]],["tag",{"tagId":"43"},["name","Murray"]],["tag",{"tagId":"242"},["name","Ngiyambaa / Ngemba language"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]],["tag",{"tagId":"81"},["name","Traditional ecological knowledge"]],["tag",{"tagId":"51"},["name","Weirs"]]]],["item",{"itemId":"288","public":"1","featured":"0"},["fileContainer",["file",{"fileId":"1308","order":"1"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/02c4ecec0de9659a5eebd1988cfecc46.JPG"],["authentication","c11f2efeca90ed4cc518df24eb40f8a3"],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4929"},["text","Eric Hannan, Rampadelles near Boggabri (NSW), 8 September 2010."]]]]]]]],["file",{"fileId":"1309","order":"2"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/bcb0e0c7228f7b99bd5bb3204174c3be.JPG"],["authentication","313ad043c33c3dbfbdbac3817534e459"],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4930"},["text","Carol Hannan, Rampadelles near Boggabri (NSW), 8 September 2010."]]]]]]]],["file",{"fileId":"2101","order":"3"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/0765f1987546c6703074939bb4b60909.mp3"],["authentication","decaf3963c3df0f44cca55d295426ef1"]],["file",{"fileId":"2102","order":"4"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/a75e3282ac50e9a3300187641a19a165.mp3"],["authentication","209aaffecf0c37a47497791565097ffa"]],["file",{"fileId":"1312","order":"5"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/0510912428d6db12ef8d36a9f00ef371.mp3"],["authentication","09bf49735b5387311504467014b14ffb"]],["file",{"fileId":"1313","order":"6"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/4399517ac545bb94d1a6ee5a594efe27.mp3"],["authentication","d7e3529c448f1aab5eaef9390fd00321"]],["file",{"fileId":"1314","order":"7"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/613a487992303a487fcb7043994203a2.mp3"],["authentication","1db8f5c106c8c7740f2a76044e02c4c7"]],["file",{"fileId":"2100","order":"8"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/077f0d225a64e3e147cd4f66c427fe1c.doc"],["authentication","c122ed6bd8c5609aec0d75cdb1dc6cd9"]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"24"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1887"},["text","Talking Fish"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1888"},["text","Historical studies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1889"},["text","History and archaeology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1911"},["text","Environmental science and management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1912"},["text","Environmental history"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1913"},["text","Aquatic ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1890"},["text","Talking Fish is a research data collection of oral histories and local knowledge in building community participation in Murray-Darling Basin river rehabilitation. It includes a cross section of age, class, gender, and Indigenous Australian communities."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1892"},["text","The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3875"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3876"},["text","Eric Hannan"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3877"},["text","Carol Hannan"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"4"},["name","Location"],["description","The location of the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3878"},["text","Namoi River, New South Wales, Australia"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10387"},["text","Part 1 00:19:18"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10388"},["text","Part 2 00:02:26"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10389"},["text","Part 3 00:25:11"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10390"},["text","Part 4 00:18:19"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10391"},["text","Part 5 00:02:53"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3860"},["text","Namoi: Oral History of Eric and Carol Hannan"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3861"},["text","An interview in five parts.\r\n\r\nEric and Carol Hannan are the owners of the Rampadelles property near Boggabri by the Namoi River and have lived here with their four children since 1973. During this time, the Hannan family have experienced numerous floods, and as a result have devised their own way to prepare for, and survive them.\r\n\r\nThe interview covers the types of fish in the area, flood patterns and frequency, life surrounding the river and its importance, changing river conditions, and recommendations moving forward.\r\n\r\nMentioned: Willow trees, \r\n"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3862"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3863"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3864"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3865"},["text","2010-09-08"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3866"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3867"},["text","NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3868"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3869"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3870"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3871"},["text","image/jpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3872"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3873"},["text","Open access"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8024"},["text","A section of this and interview recording and transcript has been masked because the participants did not want the passage used in a publication or radio production. As part of our data access requirements, ATSIDA requires an applicant to sign an undertaking before access to the full transcript can be approved. These undertakings may include a request for information about the intended use of the data. Preliminary applications may be made to atsida@lib.uts.edu.au. The depositor and/or participant may be informed of the application."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"3874"},["text","CC-BY"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4919"},["text","Fishes--Identification"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4920"},["text","Floods"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4921"},["text","Siltation"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4922"},["text","Water quality"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4923"},["text","Fishing--Australia"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4924"},["text","Lippia (Genus)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4925"},["text","Introduced fishes"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4926"},["text","Stream restoration"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4927"},["text","Erosion"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9214"},["text","Restoration ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6078"},["text","Boggabri, New South Wales"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"6079"},["text","Namoi River, New South Wales"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"103"},["name","Erosion"]],["tag",{"tagId":"57"},["name","Fishes--Identification"]],["tag",{"tagId":"49"},["name","Floods"]],["tag",{"tagId":"65"},["name","Introduced species"]],["tag",{"tagId":"6"},["name","Landholder"]],["tag",{"tagId":"4"},["name","Namoi"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]],["tag",{"tagId":"94"},["name","Siltation"]],["tag",{"tagId":"159"},["name","Stream restoration"]],["tag",{"tagId":"52"},["name","Water quality"]]]],["item",{"itemId":"311","public":"1","featured":"0"},["fileContainer",["file",{"fileId":"1659"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/db406dcdfb91d7a61d5cb884d79eec24.mp3"],["authentication","aabc3123d2fdeeeb60987c3aaedceb13"]],["file",{"fileId":"1660"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/9b6ede18471000a3b6250f6728cc6d64.mp3"],["authentication","625d7f54a36ff20f07f08765caa5bbb9"]],["file",{"fileId":"1661"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/c313bc85f64437e6ac4515e5f5ba3bb1.mp3"],["authentication","88316481dbfd5a4dca835ecab74e397f"]],["file",{"fileId":"1662"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/7f1ceff18e21b7ea8f6cbdcf9e3cea77.mp3"],["authentication","531b8b49818c3df77c3795f5ba8d2f31"]],["file",{"fileId":"1663"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/f5e2d2434a300e8833789ec312fc213e.mp3"],["authentication","48a15e016975d5001386c660f04d5dca"]],["file",{"fileId":"1664"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/28b62f2ee06431bcfa81e3bac0bed201.doc"],["authentication","14d4250c27f9d35fa85009a88bf41a1a"]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"24"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1887"},["text","Talking Fish"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1888"},["text","Historical studies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1889"},["text","History and archaeology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1911"},["text","Environmental science and management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1912"},["text","Environmental history"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1913"},["text","Aquatic ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1890"},["text","Talking Fish is a research data collection of oral histories and local knowledge in building community participation in Murray-Darling Basin river rehabilitation. It includes a cross section of age, class, gender, and Indigenous Australian communities."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1892"},["text","The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4219"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4220"},["text","Dick Lawler"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4221"},["text","Gay Lawler"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10456"},["text","Part 1 00:00:27"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10457"},["text","Part 2 00:09:49"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10458"},["text","Part 3 00:06:01"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10459"},["text","Part 4 00:12:49"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10460"},["text","Part 5 00:07:19"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4206"},["text","Upper Murrumbidgee: Oral History of Gay and Dick Lawler"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4207"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4208"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4209"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4210"},["text","2010-10-07"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4211"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4212"},["text","NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4213"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4214"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4215"},["text","audio/mpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4216"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4217"},["text","Open access"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4218"},["text","CC-BY"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4725"},["text","An interview in five parts with Gay and Dick Lawler.\r\n\r\nGay and Dick talk about the arrival of Carp and St John's Wort following a big flood in 1991. They stopped fishing soon afterward. They discuss their efforts to reintroduce native plants, and their involvement in replanting schemes organised by the Murrumbidgee Demonstration Reach and LandCare. They also talk about fish populations, local wildlife, water turbidity, and man made changes to water flows and the River's character. They briefly discuss fishing canoeing, camping and their experience with theft.\r\n\r\nMention of Black Snakes, Brown Snakes, Platypus, Water Dragons, Turtles, White Sea Eagle, Cormorants, Wombats, Echidna, Rosenberg's Monitor/Goanna (Varanus rosenbergi), Eastern Water Dragons \r\n\r\nAlso mentions St John's Wort, Vipers bugloss (\"Salvation Jane\") , Hoarhound, Hemlock, African Love Grass, Eucalyptus, Manna Gums,\r\n\r\nMention of Upper Murrumbidgee Demonstration Reach, LandCare, Snowy Mountain Scheme \r\n"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4726"},["text","Younger son of one of the early Europeans in the area. Negotiated 100 acres on the river from the family and restored a stone shepherds outbuilding in the 1980s which he uses regularly with his wife Gay."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7749"},["text"," Tantangara Dam (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7750"},["text","Burrunjuck (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7751"},["text","Gingerline Gorge (ACT)"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9672"},["text","Introduced fishes"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9673"},["text","Floods"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9674"},["text","Restoration ecology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9675"},["text","Water quality"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9676"},["text","Riparian restoration"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9677"},["text","River engineering"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9678"},["text","Fish populations"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9679"},["text","Fishing--Australia"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9680"},["text","Stream restoration"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"138"},["name","Eucalyptus camaldulensis"]],["tag",{"tagId":"153"},["name","Fish populations"]],["tag",{"tagId":"49"},["name","Floods"]],["tag",{"tagId":"65"},["name","Introduced species"]],["tag",{"tagId":"6"},["name","Landholder"]],["tag",{"tagId":"40"},["name","Murrumbidgee"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]],["tag",{"tagId":"169"},["name","Riparian restoration"]],["tag",{"tagId":"154"},["name","River engineering"]],["tag",{"tagId":"159"},["name","Stream restoration"]],["tag",{"tagId":"52"},["name","Water quality"]]]],["item",{"itemId":"313","public":"1","featured":"0"},["fileContainer",["file",{"fileId":"1670"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/bab2d3a95e7c950abdc98a90c4b3e54a.mp3"],["authentication","1a75fbf2e460caa210eaa37d4f25e645"]],["file",{"fileId":"1671"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/6a0aa20d2a9908adcb154f36c17e2fee.mp3"],["authentication","a170710f484b592b207682b048bd1812"]],["file",{"fileId":"1672"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/6dfd68cbaad1ce16cdd728e2eca88e89.mp3"],["authentication","1b5beccc7c7ba618dc1e15f3e98a80c5"]],["file",{"fileId":"1673"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/0fcefbdb289d40315b9c0c05dbd18d49.doc"],["authentication","a0d5e965cf23d387c62c5f6fd087cb12"]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"24"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1887"},["text","Talking Fish"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1888"},["text","Historical studies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1889"},["text","History and archaeology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1911"},["text","Environmental science and management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1912"},["text","Environmental history"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1913"},["text","Aquatic ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1890"},["text","Talking Fish is a research data collection of oral histories and local knowledge in building community participation in Murray-Darling Basin river rehabilitation. It includes a cross section of age, class, gender, and Indigenous Australian communities."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1892"},["text","The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4250"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4251"},["text","Darren Rosso"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"4"},["name","Location"],["description","The location of the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4252"},["text","Canberra, ACT"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10465"},["text","Part 1 00:20:13"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10466"},["text","Part 2 00:20:43"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10467"},["text","Part 3 00:21:45"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4237"},["text","Upper Murrumbidgee: Oral History of Darren Rosso"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4238"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4239"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4240"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4241"},["text","2010-10-06"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4242"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4243"},["text","NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4244"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4245"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4246"},["text","audio/mpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4247"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4248"},["text","Open access"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4249"},["text","CC-BY"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4716"},["text","An interview with Darren Rosso in three parts.\r\n\r\nDarren has worked in the Murrumbidgee Corridor since 1988.He talks about the Murrumbidgee Rivers historical fame as a Trout Cod fishery and discusses the practice of restocking fish. He describes the decline of Trout populations, recalling a large die-off event along the Murrumbidgee, Lower Cotter and Paddy's Rivers in 1998. He also talks about Trout Cod breeding in marginal conditions.\r\n\r\nHe discusses his efforts to restore and sustain river habitats and ecosystems with the ACT Parks and Conservation Service, and National Heritage Trust (NHT). Initiatives to restore resilience to the river system included the Million Trees Program, Willow poisoning, and the construction of groynes, rock deflectors and debris clusters.\r\n\r\nDarren also discusses the 2003 Canberra Fires, variance in water quality and some of the differences between managing mountain stream systems and flood plain systems.\r\n\r\nMention of Atlantic Salmon, Galaxids, Plague minnows (Gambusia holbrooki)\r\n\r\nMention of Fishing Act 2000 (ACT), Australian Capital Territory Parks and Conservation Service, National Heritage Trust (NHT)\r\n\r\nMention of Pobblebonks (Eastern Banjo Frog), Alpine Litoria lesueuri Rocky River Frogs, broad-palmed frog (Litoria latopalmata), Platypus, EHN Virus, simazine (chemical), Groynes, rock deflectors, electro fishing, Willow, phragmities, blackberries, briars, casuarinas, manna gum, cumbungi, typha, blackwoord, Red Stem Wattle, Muellerina bidwillii, Microcystis and anabaena, and spirogyra algae\r\n"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8025"},["text","ACT NPWS officer. Known for taking his Kayak and little else to do site work on the Upper Bidgee - lives off the land during such trips. Rec fisher, but with a lot of cross over into his work along the river. "]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4720"},["text","Bushfires"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8052"},["text","Fishing--Australia"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9697"},["text","Fish populations"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9698"},["text","Fish stocking "]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9699"},["text","Fish kills"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9700"},["text","Fishes--Breeding"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9701"},["text","River engineering"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9702"},["text","Stream restoration"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9703"},["text","Fish habitat improvement"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9704"},["text","Water quality"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9705"},["text","Restoration ecology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9706"},["text","Fishes--Diseases"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8032"},["text","Murrumbidgee River (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8033"},["text","Lower Cotter River (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8034"},["text","Paddys River (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8035"},["text","Googong Dam (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8036"},["text","Lake Burley Griffin (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8037"},["text","Eucumbene River (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8038"},["text","Tantangara Dam (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8039"},["text","Angle Crossing (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8040"},["text","Kambah Pool (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8041"},["text","Tharwa Bridge (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8042"},["text","Lanyon Homestead (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8043"},["text","Retalic's Hole (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8044"},["text","Casuarina Sands (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8045"},["text","Point Hut Pond District Park (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8046"},["text","Scrivener Damn (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8047"},["text","Molonglo River (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8048"},["text","Tuggeranong Creek (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8049"},["text","Brindabella Ranges (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8050"},["text","Woodstock Nature Reserve (ACT)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8051"},["text","Hume Weir (NSW)"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"164"},["name","Bushfires"]],["tag",{"tagId":"131"},["name","Fish habitat improvement"]],["tag",{"tagId":"161"},["name","Fish kills"]],["tag",{"tagId":"153"},["name","Fish populations"]],["tag",{"tagId":"73"},["name","Fish stocking"]],["tag",{"tagId":"122"},["name","Fishes--Breeding"]],["tag",{"tagId":"235"},["name","Fishes--Diseases"]],["tag",{"tagId":"40"},["name","Murrumbidgee"]],["tag",{"tagId":"7"},["name","Recreational fisher"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]],["tag",{"tagId":"154"},["name","River engineering"]],["tag",{"tagId":"159"},["name","Stream restoration"]],["tag",{"tagId":"52"},["name","Water quality"]]]],["item",{"itemId":"316","public":"1","featured":"0"},["fileContainer",["file",{"fileId":"1682"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/743a3eeaf5f046385aa7416c604df6af.JPG"],["authentication","f077337fba6ee254f5ee83ab77f4c84c"],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8070"},["text","(L to R) Mick and Barb Davis, 2010"]]]]]]]],["file",{"fileId":"1683"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/8bf7cee76cc9e8862bae4bc32ab8727d.mp3"],["authentication","9a254e8b0aab4c8028d07349d47218e3"]],["file",{"fileId":"1684"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/9ed693c6e5b8c2e6bdaebcb717790989.mp3"],["authentication","efeb1d11fa50d4c0bb99abeccd482644"]],["file",{"fileId":"1685"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/8ddb17a34bbe66e3948c4d679d141076.mp3"],["authentication","6c6426bd9616b19ea009c39993db4193"]],["file",{"fileId":"1686"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/28789b1479d316002c1274b42aa1914d.doc"],["authentication","32ff257b0f7782f02ca07278649f9165"]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"24"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1887"},["text","Talking Fish"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1888"},["text","Historical studies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1889"},["text","History and archaeology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1911"},["text","Environmental science and management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1912"},["text","Environmental history"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1913"},["text","Aquatic ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1890"},["text","Talking Fish is a research data collection of oral histories and local knowledge in building community participation in Murray-Darling Basin river rehabilitation. It includes a cross section of age, class, gender, and Indigenous Australian communities."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1892"},["text","The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4300"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4301"},["text","Mick Davis"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4302"},["text","Barb Davis"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"4"},["name","Location"],["description","The location of the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4303"},["text","Bourke, New South Wales, Australia"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10473"},["text","Part 1 00:20:09"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10474"},["text","Part 2 00:20:22"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10475"},["text","Part 3 00:07:56"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4286"},["text","Upper Darling: Oral History of Mick and Barb Davis"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4287"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4288"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4289"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4290"},["text","2010-12-02"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4291"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4292"},["text","NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4293"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4294"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4295"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4296"},["text","image/jpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4297"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4298"},["text","Open access"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4299"},["text","CC-BY"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4764"},["text","An interview in three parts with Mick and Barb Davis.\r\n\r\nMick explains his family history and the history of their property 'Myandetta\". He talks about the history of fishing in the area; professional anglers and netters; and changing attitudes towards fishing (catch and release). He learned to fish with nets and lines with his grandfathers. He discusses the arrival of European carp in 1973, noting that they travel in floodwater. He talks about bait, what it takes to catch Bony Beam, and set lines.\r\n\r\nBarb talks about yabbying, and says that she likes fishing but loves the river.\r\n\r\nMick and Barb approve of restocking efforts by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI), but share their concerns about the reduced responsiveness of fishing inspectors. They observe that there are more visitors and anglers about the river and note that illegal fishing is still practiced. They discuss man made weirs and natural weirs; river management; water allocations; water licenses; grazing along the river: erosion; and efforts to re-establish vegetation along the river.\r\n\r\nMention of NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI), Catchment Management Authority (CMA)\r\nPenny Wong\r\n\r\nMention of Lake Cargellico (NSW), Burrendong Dam (NSW), Darling River Weir 19A (30°13'55.0\"S 145°41'49.0\"E; MDBA Site ID 425037; \"19-mile weir\")\r\n\r\nMention of water lizards, wombats, shrimp."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4765"},["text","Landholder - copy Barb. Wife of Mick Davis. Property owners - sheep, and some limited agriculture - now doing farmstay - mostly for fishing groups. \r\n"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4766"},["text","Arrival of European carp in 1973"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9919"},["text","Introduced fishes"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9920"},["text","Fishing--Australia"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9921"},["text","Fishing industry"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9922"},["text","Stream restoration"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9923"},["text","Restoration ecology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9924"},["text","River engineering"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9925"},["text","Riparian areas--Management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9926"},["text","Water resources"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10204"},["text","Water allocations"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8068"},["text","Lake Cargellico (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8069"},["text","Burrendong Dam (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9927"},["text","Darling River Weir 19A (30°13'55.0\"S 145°41'49.0\"E)"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"60"},["name","Fishing industry"]],["tag",{"tagId":"46"},["name","Fishing inspector"]],["tag",{"tagId":"65"},["name","Introduced species"]],["tag",{"tagId":"6"},["name","Landholder"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]],["tag",{"tagId":"88"},["name","Riparian areas--Management"]],["tag",{"tagId":"154"},["name","River engineering"]],["tag",{"tagId":"159"},["name","Stream restoration"]],["tag",{"tagId":"74"},["name","Water allocations"]]]],["item",{"itemId":"322","public":"1","featured":"0"},["fileContainer",["file",{"fileId":"1824"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/08a0c9c0b1c0fbf443e7a53823c1aa33.JPG"],["authentication","3e18d33d294d09538494e55e27268b95"],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8014"},["text","Portrait of Dwayne Willoughby, Bourke (NSW), 30 November 2010."]]]]]]]],["file",{"fileId":"1825"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/99978f1af3058dc0cb305eab583a1f9f.mp3"],["authentication","e2be6e2494e7d4717ff34f8fd5983142"]],["file",{"fileId":"1826"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/5d8263d276323fe5952ff85908ca3802.mp3"],["authentication","ce2ded9d1f1fd21a0418dc13058ae911"]],["file",{"fileId":"1827"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/fd3475c13ec5e4adf0f3bda7391465fa.mp3"],["authentication","b01f3200f4415fe1264117b9a00d8fda"]],["file",{"fileId":"1828"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/61f649e9cb130cce4025679215c37415.mp3"],["authentication","1182bc8556f0b18e120c61e4fd14d276"]],["file",{"fileId":"1829"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/808d6d34fa8f11fa9dea2ac1e5b1f60a.mp3"],["authentication","0104237b676bbfca94244e65a78f7a7a"]],["file",{"fileId":"1830"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/4fb3fee3763ff68b0ec069f87e0ea5e9.mp3"],["authentication","c5b58ca940a013acb723a32bac81e817"]],["file",{"fileId":"1831"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/aa6b741f4adc3548978a475fcba5130e.doc"],["authentication","fb62ee0a3d59f35292e3f60aa8f78980"]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"24"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1887"},["text","Talking Fish"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1888"},["text","Historical studies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1889"},["text","History and archaeology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1911"},["text","Environmental science and management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1912"},["text","Environmental history"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1913"},["text","Aquatic ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1890"},["text","Talking Fish is a research data collection of oral histories and local knowledge in building community participation in Murray-Darling Basin river rehabilitation. It includes a cross section of age, class, gender, and Indigenous Australian communities."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1892"},["text","The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4389"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4390"},["text","Dwayne Willoughby"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"4"},["name","Location"],["description","The location of the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4391"},["text","Bourke, New South Wales, Australia"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10484"},["text","Part 1 00:00:09"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10485"},["text","Part 2 00:20:12"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10486"},["text","Part 3 00:17:50"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10487"},["text","Part 4 00:02:42"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10488"},["text","Part 5 00:03:44"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10489"},["text","Part 6 00:00:53"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4375"},["text","Upper Darling: Oral History of Dwayne Willoughby"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4376"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4377"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4378"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4379"},["text","2010-11-30"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4380"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4381"},["text","NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4382"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4383"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4384"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4385"},["text","image/jpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4386"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4387"},["text","Open access"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4388"},["text","CC-BY"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4931"},["text","An interview in six parts with Dwayne Willoughby.\r\n\r\nDwayne talks about fishing with his family; tagging fish; the influence of water colour on fish colour; fish parasites; his two boats; electric motors; and his dislike of nets. He says the water takes two years to clear after a flush and mentions that lure fishing is at its best when it does. He discusses the river ecosystem; bank stabilisation; re-snagging programs; the impact of Carp; carp musters and changing attitudes towards angling (catch and release). He also talks about flooding and fish breeding habits; yabbying on the Warrego River; and mentions storing yabbies with gum leaves and sighting black Yellowbellies at a place called Black Rocks.\r\n\r\nMentions Darling River Weir 19A (30°13'55.0\"S 145°41'49.0\"E; MDBA Site ID 425037; \"19-mile weir\"), Ford's Bridge (NSW, -29.753215, 145.430510), Warren Reservoir (SA), Bourke Weir (-30.086914, 145.894400), Bree Weir, Black Rocks\r\n\r\nMention of garden worms, white sea eagles, emu, king brown snakes, carpet snakes, red belly black snakes, water lillies, gums, algae and Dace Cordina of the Cathment Management Authority "]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"4932"},["text","Bourke Shire Council Environmental Officer. Has a fishing hut at Beemery - half way between Bourke and Brewarrina. Passionate catch and release fisherman. Fishes with father-in-law and extended family. Tagging fish with sheep tags. \r\n"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8020"},["text","Beemery (NSW, near the intersection of the Bogan and Darling Rivers)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8021"},["text","Yanda (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8022"},["text","Warrego River (NSW)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"8023"},["text","Warren Reservoir (SA)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9944"},["text","Darling River Weir 19A (30°13'55.0\"S 145°41'49.0\"E)"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9934"},["text","Fishing--Australia"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9935"},["text","Water quality"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9936"},["text","Restoration ecology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9937"},["text","Stream restoration"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9938"},["text","Riparian restoration"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9939"},["text","Introduced fishes"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9940"},["text","Fishes--Breeding"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9941"},["text","Floods"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9942"},["text","Fishes--Diseases"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9943"},["text","Fish surveys"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"167"},["name","Fish surveys"]],["tag",{"tagId":"122"},["name","Fishes--Breeding"]],["tag",{"tagId":"235"},["name","Fishes--Diseases"]],["tag",{"tagId":"49"},["name","Floods"]],["tag",{"tagId":"65"},["name","Introduced species"]],["tag",{"tagId":"7"},["name","Recreational fisher"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]],["tag",{"tagId":"169"},["name","Riparian restoration"]],["tag",{"tagId":"159"},["name","Stream restoration"]],["tag",{"tagId":"52"},["name","Water quality"]]]],["item",{"itemId":"331","public":"1","featured":"0"},["fileContainer",["file",{"fileId":"1868"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/b5dde66d8942dc1e9074c9f917804654.mp3"],["authentication","355985abb75d6872f8185b3da7777f7f"]],["file",{"fileId":"1869"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/842afccd21e75f43cbdd1e82762faf1c.mp3"],["authentication","b747c8eca504fd351b73011d924d30e5"]],["file",{"fileId":"1870"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/270bc1656bd91e203e03b3f5bb118757.mp3"],["authentication","d4e9bfb5d6cf7ea97d37deaae795a1fa"]],["file",{"fileId":"1871"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/83f9be20d2716c0ce306bb2d8439ed1a.mp3"],["authentication","6c99a16d8543f7c4bcbe35df2131d58d"]],["file",{"fileId":"1872"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/fb7db510141049fc84deb41a0fb34c70.doc"],["authentication","70136f0f53f39bc6032a770a197b4d39"]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"24"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1887"},["text","Talking Fish"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1888"},["text","Historical studies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1889"},["text","History and archaeology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1911"},["text","Environmental science and management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1912"},["text","Environmental history"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1913"},["text","Aquatic ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1890"},["text","Talking Fish is a research data collection of oral histories and local knowledge in building community participation in Murray-Darling Basin river rehabilitation. It includes a cross section of age, class, gender, and Indigenous Australian communities."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1892"},["text","The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5263"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5264"},["text","Noal Kuhl"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"4"},["name","Location"],["description","The location of the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5265"},["text","Oakey Creek"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10295"},["text","Part 1 00:06:02"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10296"},["text","Part 2 00:01:37"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10297"},["text","Part 3 00:21:54"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10298"},["text","Part 4 00:03:11"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5229"},["text","Upper Condamine: Oral History of Noal Kuhl [TREELINE]"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5230"},["text","The fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh parts of a twelve part interview with Noal Kuhl.\r\n\r\n\r\nNoal discusses the section of Oakey Creek (above where it meets Westbrook Creek) known as the Treeline. He explains how the Oakey Freshwater Fish Stocking Association's good recordkeeping (of fish releases and catch surveys) informs our understanding of fish variance and habits. He talks about the use of Blood Worms as bait and where they can be found. He also mentions the old system of wiers along Oakey Creek. \r\n\r\nMention of: Cooby Dam (Queensland), Oakey Freshwater Fish Stocking Association, Queensland Department of Primary Industries (http://trove.nla.gov.au/people/518348?c=people)\r\n\r\nGolden Perch, Siver Perch, Murray Cod, Yellowbelly, Eel-tailed Catfish\r\n\r\nBlood Worms (Glyceridae), Red Bellied Blake Snakes, Golden Orb Spiders, Chironomidae\r\n\r\nJohnson Grass, Bottlebrush, Melaleuca, Red Gum, Willow Trees, Casuarina (\"Sheoaks\")"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5231"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5799"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5800"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5232"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5233"},["text","2010-09-30"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5234"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5235"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5236"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5300"},["text","audio/mpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5237"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5238"},["text","Open access"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5239"},["text","CC-BY"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5272"},["text","Restoration ecology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5273"},["text","Bait fishing"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5274"},["text","Fish surveys"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5275"},["text","Fish stocking"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7540"},["text","Jandaryan Reserve (Queensland, \"Woolshed Reserve\")"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7541"},["text","Oakey Creek (Queensland)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7542"},["text","Bunya Mountains (Queensland)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7543"},["text","Doctors Creek (Queensland)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7544"},["text","Irongate (Queensland)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7545"},["text","Mason's Bridge (-27.460193, 151.704246)"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"134"},["name","Bait fishing"]],["tag",{"tagId":"37"},["name","Condamine"]],["tag",{"tagId":"73"},["name","Fish stocking"]],["tag",{"tagId":"167"},["name","Fish surveys"]],["tag",{"tagId":"7"},["name","Recreational fisher"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]]]],["item",{"itemId":"332","public":"1","featured":"0"},["fileContainer",["file",{"fileId":"1873"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/841418736c4250f5ec857b5e01a6b868.mp3"],["authentication","880ace9452246b8e1cda95b6cb4ff30e"]],["file",{"fileId":"1874"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/beff6c6fd3b5e8e80b3fb75a3fbba41e.mp3"],["authentication","0ef125108d331710c58f9516cd3898fc"]],["file",{"fileId":"1875"},["src","https://dharmae.research.uts.edu.au/files/original/2eb31fd83aa36c90ec3f40245afe1f54.doc"],["authentication","f4307e5f1d1d35cf6bce942c18170040"]]],["collection",{"collectionId":"24"},["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1887"},["text","Talking Fish"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1888"},["text","Historical studies"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1889"},["text","History and archaeology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1911"},["text","Environmental science and management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1912"},["text","Environmental history"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1913"},["text","Aquatic ecology"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1890"},["text","Talking Fish is a research data collection of oral histories and local knowledge in building community participation in Murray-Darling Basin river rehabilitation. It includes a cross section of age, class, gender, and Indigenous Australian communities."]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1892"},["text","The Talking Fish project covers 12 reaches within the Basin:
\nRecent decades have brought an increasing realisation that the health of the Murray-Darling Basin is at risk. An array of pressures ranging from the over allocation of water resources, poor land management planning and the expansion of primary production have all contributed to declines in river health. Fish and their habitats have been greatly affected by these pressures, with estimates suggesting native fish populations are at 10% of pre-European colonisation levels.
\nAs all levels of government explore options for improving the health of the Murray-Darling Basin, the knowledge held by people within the community who have had a lengthy association with the waterways of the Basin is being increasingly recognised as a valuable resource. People’s lived experience provides a unique insight into how changes in rivers and their associated habitats have occurred over time. Accessing and recording this information will make a significant contribution to our knowledge of the Murray-Darling Basin, and help shape the management decisions of the future to achieve improved river health outcomes.
\nMany different groups of people have developed unique relationships with rivers and their associated environments. The long history of recreational fishing within the Basin has led generations of people to spend substantial amounts of time on or near its rivers. Their desire to experience the river and to catch fish has developed a refined understanding of how fish relate to the riverine environment, and consequently how the changes to these environments have affected the status of native fisheries.
\nSimilarly, Indigenous peoples have relationships with the rivers that stretch back tens of thousands of years before the arrival of European colonisers. This strong and lasting association has also allowed Indigenous peoples to witness contemporary changes to the health of the Basin’s rivers and observe how these changes have influenced fish and their habitats. In addition, landholders, long-time residents, regular tourists and an array of other community stakeholders hold stories and memories of the river that are an invaluable resource for guiding its future management.
\nThe project represents a unique collaboration between some of Australia’s most prominent ecological oral historians (both within tertiary institutions and commercial production companies), all four Basin-state fisheries agencies and regional NRM organisations. The integration of research institutions, government and local community stakeholders provides a diverse and flexible framework to access a wide range of participants and ensure the collection, analysis and presentation of information is in accordance with national and international best practice.
\nThe project delivered a suite of oral history recordings from across the Basin, while also developing communication products in the form of radio features and community booklets. This output was deposited with the Mitchell Library of the State Library of New South Wales and the Australian Torres Strait Islander Digital Archive (ATSIDA). Physical copies are held at the Mitchell Library (Accession Record MLOH 647).
"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"43"},["name","Identifier"],["description","An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1891"},["text","Australian Research Council Grant ID LP120200117"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1893"},["text","image/tiff"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1894"},["text","image/jpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1895"},["text","audio/mpeg"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1896"},["text","application/msword"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1897"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1898"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1901"},["text","NSW Fisheries"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12893"},["text","Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1899"},["text","Prof. Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1900"},["text","Dr Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"12892"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"56"},["name","Date Created"],["description","Date of creation of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1902"},["text","Data collected between 2010-07-01 and 2011-06-30."]]]],["element",{"elementId":"46"},["name","Relation"],["description","A related resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"1904"},["text","The publication resulting from data collected for Talking Fish is openly accessible and available for download:"]]]]]]]],["itemType",{"itemTypeId":"4"},["name","Oral History"],["description","A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"2"},["name","Interviewer"],["description","The person(s) performing the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5260"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"3"},["name","Interviewee"],["description","The person(s) being interviewed"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5261"},["text","Noal Kuhl"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"4"},["name","Location"],["description","The location of the interview"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5262"},["text","Oakey Creek"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"11"},["name","Duration"],["description","Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.)"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10293"},["text","Part 1 00:14:06"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10294"},["text","Part 2 00:06:05"]]]]]],["elementSetContainer",["elementSet",{"elementSetId":"1"},["name","Dublin Core"],["description","The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/."],["elementContainer",["element",{"elementId":"50"},["name","Title"],["description","A name given to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5240"},["text","Upper Condamine: Oral History of Noal Kuhl [JONDARYAN RESERVE]"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"41"},["name","Description"],["description","An account of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5247"},["text","The eighth and ninth parts of a twelve part interview with Noal Kuhl.\r\n\r\nNoal discusses the history of Jondaryan Station and the creek surrounds, and covers subdivisions; grazing; floods; and land clearance. His talks about his extensive research into the prior state of the local ecosystem and discusses his efforts to return the river to a prior state (Noal is a member of the Oakey Freshwater Fish Stocking Association). He also talks about stocking impoundment permits; negotiating with local land holders to stock the river; and cleaning up the river.\r\n\r\nGolden Perch, Silver Perch, Murray Cod, Eel Tailed Catfish, European Carp, Rainbow Fish, Blackfish\r\n\r\nShrimp, Mussels, Yabbies\r\n\r\nMarijuana \r\n\r\nEnvironmental Protection agency, Napco"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"49"},["name","Subject"],["description","The topic of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5248"},["text","Riparian areas--Management"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5249"},["text","Fish stocking"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5250"},["text","Restoration ecology"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5276"},["text","Riparian restoration"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"9589"},["text","Grazing"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"39"},["name","Creator"],["description","An entity primarily responsible for making the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5251"},["text","Heather Goodall"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5797"},["text","Jodi Frawley"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5798"},["text","Hamish Sewell"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"45"},["name","Publisher"],["description","An entity responsible for making the resource available"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5252"},["text","University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"40"},["name","Date"],["description","A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5253"},["text","2010-09-30"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"37"},["name","Contributor"],["description","An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5254"},["text","Murray-Darling Basin Authority"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5255"},["text","NSW Department of Primary Industries - NSW Fisheries"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"47"},["name","Rights"],["description","Information about rights held in and over the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5256"},["text","Copyright University of Technology, Sydney"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"44"},["name","Language"],["description","A language of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5257"},["text","English"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"63"},["name","Access Rights"],["description","Information about who can access the resource or an indication of its security status. Access Rights may include information regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5258"},["text","Open access"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"64"},["name","License"],["description","A legal document giving official permission to do something with the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5259"},["text","CC-BY"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"42"},["name","Format"],["description","The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource"],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5298"},["text","application/msword"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"5299"},["text","audio/mpeg"]]]],["element",{"elementId":"81"},["name","Spatial Coverage"],["description","Spatial characteristics of the resource."],["elementTextContainer",["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7546"},["text","Jondaryan Reserve (\"Woolshed Reserve\")"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7547"},["text","Oakey Creek, Qld [stream]"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7548"},["text","Bunya Mountains, Qld [mountains]"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7549"},["text","Doctors Creek, Qld [populated place]"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7550"},["text","Irongate Conservation Park, Qld [park]"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"7551"},["text","Mason's Bridge (-27.460193, 151.704246)"]],["elementText",{"elementTextId":"10556"},["text","Jondaryan, Qld [populated place]"]]]]]]],["tagContainer",["tag",{"tagId":"37"},["name","Condamine"]],["tag",{"tagId":"73"},["name","Fish stocking"]],["tag",{"tagId":"121"},["name","Grazing"]],["tag",{"tagId":"7"},["name","Recreational fisher"]],["tag",{"tagId":"176"},["name","Restoration ecology"]],["tag",{"tagId":"88"},["name","Riparian areas--Management"]],["tag",{"tagId":"169"},["name","Riparian restoration"]]]]]