Cultural Heritage
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Aboriginal Insights
Learn about the cultural and personal connections Aboriginal people have with our river systems. -
Heritage Stories
People communicate through stories, here we share great tales from Australia's rivers and the communities that live beside them.
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0Our water, our life
A new report released this month shows how Aboriginal people in the northern basin have overwhelmingly ranked environmental watering as a significant factor in their lives.
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0Deakin’s American dreams for the Basin
As part of Australian Heritage Week, the Murray–Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) is looking back on the diverse history of the Basin to understand how the nation developed and reflect on what makes the Murray–Darling Basin so special. Alfred Deakin, Australia’s second Prime Minister, is one of the most iconic and widely celebrated historical figures throughout […]
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0Celebrating our heritage
From the 16th to the 24th of April 2016, the Murray–Darling Basin Authority celebrated Australian Heritage Week. Celebrating the Basin’s unique heritage adds to our sense of place, community and history and helps shape our identity as Australians. The Murray–Darling Basin is full of historic sites, informing us about the unique history of Australia and highlighting how Australia’s […]
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0Investigating Progress in the Basin
The Murray–Darling Basin is a diverse and complex river system, with its different environments, communities and users constantly in a state of change. The Basin Plan was created to ensure a balance is achieved between the water made available for community, industry and environmental purposes. The recently released 2014-15 Basin Plan annual report highlights progress […]
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0True Tales - Aboriginal Fisheries Management
That the aborigines made fish-traps and fish-balks (as we used to call them when we came across them) is a fact. Sixty years ago there were many of the smaller balks in existence, and white people knew them and made use of them for other purposes than those intended by the aborigines. The larger fish-traps […]
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0Baiame's Ngunnhu - Brewarrina Fish Traps
The point where the Barwon River ends and the Darling River commences is a place of enormous cultural, recreational and economic importance for the Ngemba people, and for many other Indigenous groups in the area. This is also the site where the Baiame’s Ngunnhu (Brewarrina Fish Traps) are situated, an ingenious structure used by Indigenous […]
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0Through Our Eyes: Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge Project
Indigenous people have much to teach today’s land managers and the wider community about caring for the environment. “Through Our Eyes: Aboriginal Cultural Knowledge: Past, Present and Future”, is an innovative project that shares the traditional ecological knowledge of elders and their communities throughout the Western NSW Catchment. So far, there have been 44 videos made featuring […]
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1Fine dining from waterways
Natasha Childs serves up a feast of information on wetland food webs. Rivers and wetlands are a haven for native wildlife. Where there’s water, there’s food…and a long list of wetland animals waiting to dine out on a menu of plants, insects, fish, frogs and more. The aquatic food web begins at a microscopic level. […]
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0Lachlan River Catchment History
My father had the stories; he always used to say that at Easter time he wouldn’t have to buy fish, he would just catch a fish, down the Lachlan here, always four to five cod and not much of anything else, that’s what dad used to tell us. There was also what they used to […]
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0Hopkins Wetlands
The Glenelg Hopkins catchment has more than 5,400 wetlands, covering 73,000 ha or three per cent of the region’s area. This represents 14 per cent of Victoria’s total area of wetlands and 44 per cent of the state’s total number of wetlands.