Channels of History oral histories

The creator of the project, Trish FitzSimons describes the project: Channels of History is a creative research project about the women, land and history of Queensland's Channel Country. Its outcomes include an oral history archive, travelling exhibition and broadcast documentary. It uses video interview and photographic stills, archival film, maps and documents to explore the way in which land and negotiations over its use, ownership and inheritance, are at the heart of the Australian story. The Channel Country is located where New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia and the Northern Territory come together. Channels of History brings together both contemporary and historical stories about the range of ways that women have participated in this area: as Traditional Owners, landholders, drovers, cooks, mothers, publicans, post office proprietors, governesses, teachers, writers and farmers. It is about patterns of land and land use and the patterns of women's lives; about tall tales and hidden histories and the functions these various stories fulfil.