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Dharmae: Culgoa-Balonne Rivers Oral History collection (Talking Fish project)

University of Technology Sydney
Heather Goodall (Associated with, Aggregated by) Professor Heather Goodall (Associated with, Aggregated by)
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The Culgoa River twists and turns across the floodplain and through coolabah woodlands before flowing into the Darling River between the towns of Brewarrina and Bourke. The 123 000km2 catchment of the Culgoa – Balonne Rivers is semiͲarid and experiences a highly variable rainfall. The rainfall is reflected in the rivers’ flows which often cease for long periods of time, sometimes for up to a few years. During such prolonged droughts only very large waterholes continue to hold water. When the rains are good, the whole floodplain may turn into a slow flowing river around a metre deep. These rivers are significant to the Bigambul, Kooma, Muruwari, Gungarri, Mandandanjii and Gamilaroi people who have traditionally lived, fished and told stories about these rivers and the life they support. (Source: Sarac, Z., Sewell, H., Ringwood, G., Baker, E. and Nichols, S. (2012). Culgoa - Balonne: Talking fish, making connections with the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin. 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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History)&rft_subject=Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge&rft_subject=ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES&rft_subject=ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT&rft_subject=Natural Resource Management&rft_subject=Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage&rft_subject=CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING&rft_subject=HERITAGE&rft_subject=Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments&rft_subject=ENVIRONMENT&rft_subject=ECOSYSTEM ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT&rft_subject=Applied research&rft.type=dataset&rft.language=English Access the data
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This item represents a Study Region in Dharmae, the UTS Data Hub of
Australian Research on Marine and Aquatic Ecocultures.

The data from this study region includes 11 oral histories (audio as mp3s, and transcripts) and 4 image galleries, as well as a georeferenced hand-drawn map of the area.

Geographically the Balonne is an extension of the Condamine River and starts near Glenmorgan. It flows through gently undulating country before reaching an expansive flat plain where it splits and forms several smaller rivers including the Culgoa. The Culgoa River twists and turns across the floodplain and through coolabah woodlands before flowing into the Darling River between the towns of Brewarrina and Bourke.

The 123 000km2 catchment of the Culgoa – Balonne Rivers is semiͲarid and experiences a highly variable rainfall. The rainfall is reflected in the rivers’ flows which often cease for long periods of time, sometimes for up to a few years. During such prolonged droughts only very large waterholes continue to hold water. When the rains are good, the whole floodplain may turn into a slow flowing river around a metre deep.

These rivers are significant to the Bigambul, Kooma, Muruwari, Gungarri, Mandandanjii and Gamilaroi people who have traditionally lived, fished and told stories about these rivers and the life they support.

(Source: Sarac, Z., Sewell, H., Ringwood, G., Baker, E. and Nichols, S. (2012). Culgoa - Balonne: Talking fish, making connections with the rivers of the Murray-Darling Basin. Murray-Darling Basin Authority, Canberra.)

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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Environmental Knowledge | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History | Applied research | Australian History (Excl. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History) | Balonne | Cultural Understanding | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | Culgoa | Ecosystem Assessment and Management | Environment | Environmental Science and Management | Environmental Sciences | Ecosystem Assessment and Management of Fresh, Ground and Surface Water Environments | Heritage | Historical Studies | History and Archaeology | Natural Resource Management |

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