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Dharmae: Ovens River 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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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 6 oral histories (audio as mp3s, and transcripts) and 2 image galleries, as well as a georeferenced hand-drawn map of the area. The Ovens River rises in the Victorian Alps where it is linked to significant freshwater meadows and marshes. At Wangaratta it is joined by the King River and it meets the Murray near the top of Lake Mulwala. The Ovens River is one of the last largely unregulated rivers in the Murray Darling Basin and is particularly important as a reference against which to assess the state of other lowland rivers in the region. Since Europeanisation, industries including grazing, gold mining, tobacco and plantation forestry, have bought different types of workers with new needs to the river. There are areas where the riparian vegetation has been replaced by willows, there have been significant water quality issues and there are far too many pest fish. These are the traditional lands of the Bangerang people and their neighbours the Taungurung and Yorta Yorta peoples. They have fished the river and surrounding waterways and hunted the wetlands and the ebb and flow of water guided their travels and featured in their stories. (Source: Frawley, J., Nichols, S., Goodall, H. and Baker, E. 2011. Ovens: Talking fish, making connections with the rivers of the Murray‐Darling Basin. Murray‐Darling Basin Authority, Canberra.)

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146.18333,-36.05

146.18333,-36.05

146.35,-36.36667

146.35,-36.36667

146.68333,-36.63333

146.68333,-36.63333

146.88333,-36.7

146.88333,-36.7

146.32056,-36.35846

146.32056,-36.35846

146.72371,-36.56104

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146.96126,-36.72712

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text: Ovens River, AU (Australia/Melbourne)

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text: King River, AU (Australia/Melbourne)

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text: Buffalo River, AU (Australia/Melbourne)

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text: Buckland River, AU (Australia/Melbourne)

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text: Wangaratta, AU (Australia/Melbourne)

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text: Myrtleford, AU (Australia/Melbourne)

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text: Bright, AU (Australia/Melbourne)

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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) | Cultural Understanding | Conserving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage | 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 | ovens |

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