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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The project is the result of a research partnership between the Kowanyama people (through
the Kowanyama Aboriginal Land and Natural Resource Management Office- KALNRMO)
and the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship of the CSIRO. The authors wish to
acknowledge the assistance of all of the Indigenous 1 and non-Indigenous research
participants in this study who made the field research possible – the Oriners Mob 2 , „Forest
People‟ connected to the area, the Hughes family, and Indigenous cattlemen from other
places who worked at Oriners over the years.
Griffith University and the Australian Rivers Institute provided logistical support for scientific
participation in this project. The work reported here follows on from other work undertaken
with the KALNRMO, including collaboration with research partners from the Tropical Rivers
and Coastal Knowledge Research Hub (TRaCK - www.track.gov.au).
CSIRO volunteers Chloe Gibbon, Mitchell Proudfoot and Roshini Vincent assisted with
interview transcripts and other research tasks. Finally, the authors thank Veronica Strang for
generously providing her time and expertise as an expert reviewer. Her comments assisted
the concluding phase of the report‟s production and provided fruitful suggestions for further
analysis.
Figure 1. Watercourse of Eight Mile Creek.
1 This report follows CSIRO publication convention in using „Indigenous‟, but „Aboriginal‟ will be used
where it is part of an organisational name or formal quotation.
2 The usage of „Oriners Mob‟ and „Forest People‟ as collective terms for Indigenous people associated
with the Oriners area is explained further in 1.3 of the introduction.
Working Knowledge at Oriners Station, Cape York
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