Mallee History Project

In partnership, the Mallee Landcare Group, the Mallee Catchment Management Authority (CMA) and the Hopetoun & District Historical Society Inc. and the Ouyen District History & Genealogy Centre, will combine forces to collaborate with a diverse array of local community ‘keepers-of-the- stories’ to create a series of short documentaries that will be an ongoing resource.

Hosted on a developed YouTube Channel and launched on social media and a number of other platforms and locations; targeted audiences will include (but not limited to) Landcare groups, primary, secondary and tertiary education students, historians, agricultural societies, local and national audiences.

Our intent involves interviewing pioneering agriculturalists, veterans of the landscape, those with a story to tell – to capture as much of the faunal, floral and human history from early generations to share forward and inform future people of the Mallee landscape. Drawing upon the existing expertise from within the community, amateur botanists, wild-life photographers, local historians, education, science experts and indigenous elders.