An interview with the last remaining person alive in a historical photo taken at Koondrook near Barham of a group of people in horse and carts having a New Year’s Day picnic on the bed of the Murray River, 1st January 1914.
Ian McDonald, who was then a 2-month-old baby and living on the property “Riversdale” at Myall alongside the Murray River, recounts his experiences about the droughts of the 1940s and his parents’ stories of the 1914 and 1902 droughts, and how the river would always stop running during a drought.
His view is that if it were not for the dams upstream storing and releasing water during a drought, the Murray River would stop running during every drought, and this would be a normal occurrence in Australian rivers.
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Produced by: Vince Bucello
Year: 2011
Language: English
