| Bib ID |
5816369 |
| Format |
Audio [sound recording] , Online - Google Books |
| Author |
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| Access Conditions |
Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use. |
| Description |
2012
1 sound file (approximately 49 min.)
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| Series |
Coal seam gas oral history project.
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| Summary |
Ross Flohr speaks about his schooling in Rockhampton and Moranbah; Wotonga Station, Wallumbilla, and the people who set it up; his family’s purchase of Moranbah station; landscape and land improvements of Moranbah and Wotonga; his childhood years at Wotonga; post-schooling years mustering in south-west Queensland; memories of early Moranbah township and its residents; changes to grazing because of coal mining in the area and on his land; land management on Wotonga during droughts and floods and the impact of land clearing legislation; coal seam gas at Wotonga; relationships with coal and gas companies; public opinions of coal and gas development; attitudes to land development in southern and northern Queensland; employee conditions on Wotonga; fly in fly out mine workers; the future of the region.
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| Notes |
Recorded on 23 January 2012 at Moranbah Library, Qld.
Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;
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| Index/Finding Aid Note |
Timed summary (2 pages) |
| Subjects |
Flohr, Ross, - 1958- - Interviews. | Ranchers - Queensland - Moranbah - Interviews. | Agricultural landscape management - Queensland - Moranbah. | Coalbed methane - Queensland - Moranbah. | Coalbed methane - Environmental aspects. | Coal mines and mining - Queensland - Moranbah.
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| Occupation |
Graziers. |
| Other authors/contributors |
Keogh, Luke, Interviewer
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| Related records |
Coal seam gas oral history project
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