Part 1 Durt'Yowan Latrobe River The Life Source Part 1: The Working River

With some big changes on the horizon for the Latrobe River, or Durt’Yowan as Gunaikurnai people have called it for thousands of years, it’s important to know the story behind one of Gippsland’s longest rivers. Part One: Coined a ‘working river’, since colonisation the Latrobe has been straightened, its floodplain drained, trees cleared, and dams built all to make the river work for us.