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Ross Flohr interviewed by Luke Keogh in the Coal seam gas oral history project [sound recording]
Bib ID 5816369
Format AudioAudio [sound recording]
Author
Flohr, Ross, 1958-, Interviewee
 
Access Conditions Access open for research; written permission required for personal copies and public use. 
Description 2012 
1 sound file (approximately 49 min.) 
Series

Coal seam gas oral history project.

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.

Notes

Recorded on 23 January 2012 at Moranbah Library, Qld.

Digital master; National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore collection;

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.
Occupation Graziers.
Other authors/contributors Keogh, Luke, Interviewer

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    Petherick Reading Room (Oral History)
    ORAL TRC 6340/4 (summary)
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