Our brave Settlement Grants Officer, Muataza shares her story of migrating to Australia and what inspired her to promote ‘community spirit’ within Woden Valley.
Muataza's story is part of the digital storytelling project ‘Walk in My Shoes: Stories by Muslim Women in Canberra’ produced by PhotoAccess in partnership with Gen S stories, and funded by the ACT Government.
Hans Fischer
This story is part of the, Snowy: Stories from former workers and families of the Snowy Mountains Scheme digital storytelling project. A collection of 10 personal stories of former Snowy Scheme workers and their families. It was made in partnership with Snowy Hydro, Woden Community Service, Gen S Stories, PhotoAccess and the National Archives of Australia.
Ghostgum - Soggy
2 March 2019, PhotoAccess, Canberra
In Search of Freedom
The following story is part of a digital story telling project namely Walk in my Shoes: Stories by Muslim Women in Canberra.
Go to the following link to watch the full 8 stories:
Walk in my Shoes: Stories by Muslim Women in Canberra is a project produced by PhotoAccess in partnership with Gen S Stories, and funded by an ACT Government 2014-15 Participation (Women's) Grant.
The collection of stories were launched in early December 2015, supported by Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres and Canberra Multicultural Community Forum at the Ralph Wilson Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre.
Launch guest speakers: Yvette Berry MLA (Minister for Women) and Diana Abdel-Rahman (Chair Canberra Multicultural Community Forum and President of Australian Muslim Voice).
Snowy River Scheme | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:01:45 1 History 00:01:54 1.1 Background 00:06:14 1.2 Construction 00:12:37 1.3 1958 elevator accident 00:13:02 1.4 Personal stories and memoirs of work on the Snowy Scheme 00:15:21 1.5 Current operations 00:15:51 2 Environmental concerns 00:19:30 3 Components 00:19:56 3.1 Power stations 00:20:14 3.2 Major dams and reservoirs 00:21:27 3.3 Pumping Stations 00:21:57 3.3.1 Expansion plans 00:22:33 4 Tourism 00:24:05 5 See also
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The Snowy Mountains scheme or Snowy scheme is a hydroelectricity and irrigation complex in south-east Australia. The Scheme consists of sixteen major dams; seven power stations; one pumping station; and 225 kilometres (140 mi) of tunnels, pipelines and aqueducts that were constructed between 1949 and 1974. The Scheme was completed under the supervision of Chief Engineer, Sir William Hudson and is the largest engineering project undertaken in Australia.The water of the Snowy River and some of its tributaries, much of which formerly flowed southeast onto the river flats of East Gippsland, and into Bass Strait of the Tasman sea, is captured at high elevations and diverted inland to the Murray and Murrumbidgee Rivers irrigation areas, through two major tunnel systems driven through the Continental Divide of the Snowy Mountains, known in Australia as the Great Dividing Range. The water falls 800 metres (2,600 ft) and travels through large hydro-electric power stations which generate peak-load power for the Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales and Victoria. The Scheme also provides some security of water flows to the Murray-Darling basin, providing approximately 2,100 gigalitres (7.4×1010 cu ft) of water a year to the basin for use in Australia’s irrigated agriculture industry. In 2016, the Snowy Mountains Scheme was added to the Australian National Heritage List.