Layers of Values, Afloat on the Darling
[One River Reference Group member, Cameron Muir, writes about Andrew Hull’s One River project Remembering the River, delivered on 6 July 2013 in Bourke]. It’s late afternoon and Andrew Hull is punting lanterns down the Darling River in a dinged-up ex-military boat. This will be his last rehearsal before tomorrow’s performance of ‘Remembering the River’. […]
Weaving
[Ellen Trevorrow is a Ngarrindjeri elder from Camp Coorong and an Ngarrindjeri Cultural Basket Weaver. She is currently working towards many exhibitions and she is a dedicated worker with children. She tells her story to Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh.] I’m a Ngarrindjeri woman from on the Murray River, not that far from Wellington, near where the […]
Community
[Kym McHugh has held the position of Mayor of Alexandrina for the past eighteen years. He’s currently President of the South Australian Local Government Association and a Life Member of the South Australian Country Fire Services and previously Chair of the SACFS Board. He tells his story to Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh.] I’ve always lived at […]
Wasted Water
[Garry Hera-Singh has been President of the Southern Fishermans’ Association for the past thirteen years. He was at the helm when the Lakes and Coorong Fishery became only the third fishery in Australia and the twenty-seventh in the world to gain Marine Stewardship Council Accreditation for sustainable fisheries. He acknowledges that he had, and still […]
Together We Stand
Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh interviews Glen and Tracy Hill, environmentally sustainable fishers of the Coorong, near the Murray Mouth, SA. “When you go out on the water, you’re in tune with nature. It’s emotional.” – Glen Hill Tracy: Glen and I decided to call ourselves Coorong Wild Seafood because we were not only proud of what […]
All the Rivers Ran
[Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh interviews retired Director of Signal Point, Goolwa, Frank Tuckwell. Frank has been a Councillor on the Alexandrina Council for the past twenty-two years and has been a member of Lions International for almost fifty years.] I’m retired, well as retired as you can be in a country town. My last real job […]
The Solution
[Bill ‘Swampy’ Marsh interviews third generation Lake Alexandrina farmer Phil Withers] My grandfather, Alfred Robert Withers, purchased Nalpa Station – a 10,000 acre property bordering Lake Alexandrina – from an Adelaide based family, the Stirlings. That was back in 1923 and the main reason he bought it was that there was a drought up along the […]
