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Book Synopsis How the Murray River was Made by : University of Melbourne. Early Learning Centre
Download or read book How the Murray River was Made written by University of Melbourne. Early Learning Centre and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How the Murray River was Made by : Jan Deans
Download or read book How the Murray River was Made written by Jan Deans and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This Australian Aboriginal story, suitable for young children, offers a dreamtime' explanation of the origins of one of Australia's great rivers, the Murray River.' --rear cover.
Download or read book How the Murray River was Made written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How the Murray River was Made by : Linda Bruce
Download or read book How the Murray River was Made written by Linda Bruce and published by Nelson Australia. This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tatty and his friends spear a large fish and follow it as it burrows into the side of the waterhole, forming what we know today as the Murray River.
Download or read book The Murray written by Paul Sinclair and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-24 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Murray River is in crisis, and faces an uncertain future. In this evocative book, Paul Sinclair explores the reasons why the river has become degraded, and what these changes have meant to Australians. This in-depth study of the Murray River examines the changing cultural meanings of the river: the practical forgetfulness which has eroded the Aboriginal presence; the triumphant narratives in which a supposedly empty land is made purposeful by the life-giving powers of the Murray; the passion to make the river's flow predictable and to replace 'primitive' forces with a domesticated and balanced landscape. The focus is on shifts and changes. Sinclair describes the brief heyday of the riverboats and their transformation into a tourist attraction; the decline of the mighty Murray cod and the rise of the European carp; and the changing fortunes of the river towns. He demonstrates that 'progress' is often a myth, and that ecological degradation always has cultural costs. This is an innovative cultural and environmental history, about landscape and fish, memory and concepts, imagination and desire. Through a complex interweaving of history, analysis, poetry, art, and individuals' recollections, Paul Sinclair has created an original and subtly conceived work, offering imaginative space to think about land and water in new ways. Fishermen, farmers, tourists, environmentalists, lovers of the Australian landscape—all these people will want to read this beautifully written book. It will be an essential resource for those directly involved in the future of the Murray River, contributing to the larger debate about Australia’s threatened environment.
Book Synopsis Sold Down the River by : Scott Hamilton
Download or read book Sold Down the River written by Scott Hamilton and published by Text Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two insiders expose the shocking and shameful betrayal of Australia’s regional heartland so international bankers and traders could make a quick buck.
Download or read book Flood Country written by Emily O'Gorman and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Floods in the Murray-Darling Basin are crucial sources of water for people, animals and plants in this often dry region of inland eastern Australia. Even so, floods have often been experienced as natural disasters, which have led to major engineering schemes. Flood Country explores the contested and complex history of this region, examining the different ways in which floods have been understood and managed and some of the long-term consequences for people, rivers and ecologies. The book examines many tensions, ranging from early exchanges between Aboriginal people and settlers about the dangers of floods, through to long running disputes between graziers and irrigators over damming floodwater, and conflicts between residents and colonial governments over whose responsibility it was to protect townships from floods. Flood Country brings the Murray-Darling Basin's flood history into conversation with contemporary national debates about climate change and competing access to water for livelihoods, industries and ecosystems. It provides an important new historical perspective on this significant region of Australia, exploring how people, rivers and floods have re-made each other.
Download or read book The Murray River written by Amanda Burdon and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 14 Fun Facts About Australia's Murray River: A 15-Minute Book by : Jeannie Meekins
Download or read book 14 Fun Facts About Australia's Murray River: A 15-Minute Book written by Jeannie Meekins and published by Learning Island. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred million years ago, Australia rose from the sea. The water drained from the highlands, and formed the rivers of today. The Murray River meanders across the landscape. It has had its course blocked several times by the rising new continent. It has created megalakes and forests, has provided homes for many species of wildlife, and lives in the legends of the indigenous people. How much do you know about this river? How big is a Murray River cod? How old is the Murray River? How long can a River Red Gum Tree live? Why was the Psyche Pump Station built? Find out the answers to these questions and more and amaze your family and friends with these fun facts. Ages 8 and up. All measurements in American and metric. LearningIsland.com believes in the value of children practicing reading for 15 minutes every day. Our 15-Minute Books give children lots of fun, exciting choices to read, from classic stories, to mysteries, to books of knowledge. Many books are appropriate for hi-lo readers. Open the world of reading to a child by having them read for 15 minutes a day.
Book Synopsis BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier by :
Download or read book BUCKLEY, BATMAN & MYNDIE: Echoes of the Victorian culture-clash frontier written by and published by BookPOD. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 1105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounding 1: BEFORE 1840 The notes, journals and characters of Aboriginal Protectors William Thomas and his Chief George Robinson form the backbone of this compilation. With this ethnographic material we learn something of the Kulin worldview into this mostly white-fella history. Sounding 1: Before 1840 describes the initial British and European experiences, events, observations, intentions, self-serving judgements, ignorance, naivete, treachery and so on when they found Oz and proclaimed the continent theirs by the now obvious fiction of terra nullius – Latin legalese for ‘land belonging to no people’. The reader may enjoy separating the grains of truth from the chaff propaganda of Empire capitalism or racist / sectarian Christian bible dogma that was the self-serving mindset of the white land-takers. Batman and Fawkner’s land-hunting deals with local koori’s along with the re-emergence of the remarkable wild white castaway Buckley made their mark on the first settlement at Melbourne. The focus widens in 1836 with Surveyor-General Major Mitchell’s and his Wuradjuri guides ‘conquering the interior’ from the Murray near Mildura to the Western District at Portland and then back north-east across the state to the Murray upstream at Albury. His wheel tracks opened up Victoria from the north. First contact race interactions at Port Phillip and the notion of cultural-coexistence during the first five years leads to the role of ‘successful battler’ and publican Fawkner in the colonial invasion process from Kulin country to sheep-run to city. Sounding 1 then winds up with Melbourne’s first executions and descriptions of Port Phillip as the money melting pot forming the Melbourne hub of world capitalism. Twentieth century academic studies now identify native religion, language zones, tribal locations and clan heads at the time of dispossession by pirate capitalism. In describing the Australian land-rush the chapter echoes oscillate between history, sociology, race theory, trade and class wars, whaling and sealing, imperialism and the monopoly East India Company army mates all pitted against the ‘vanishing race’ of hunter-gathering ‘savages’. The dispossession was virtually complete in Victoria before the 1850’s gold rushes transformed the sheep-runs into banker’s dividend wealth for the ‘winners’. Sounding 2: DISPOSSESSION AT MELBOURNE: Sounding 2 unfolds gently with a wistful early Melbourne memoir involving Batman’s lost lawyer Gellibrand in 1836 but then we confront the frontier ‘kill or be killed’ point of necessity. The violent life, times and fate of mass murderer Fred Taylor who was first employed as overseer for banker Swanston’s Bellarine peninsula land-grab sets the local dispossession tone. Taylor’s repeated atrocities today exposes a credibility gap in Oz – between civilized progress and slaughter, that now looms over all else in Victoria’s birth as an independent state in 1851. The winter of 1837 saw the first violent death of a white squatter and his servant by ‘savage natives’ north-west of Williamstown at Mt Cotterell. Town leaders such as Fawkner and ‘police chief’ Henry Batman formed a posse that also included clan heads from both the Melbourne and Geelong tribal areas. Buckley refused to take part in the vigilante party and its punitive actions belied the humanitarian standards expressed in Batman’s treaty deed. This revenge slaughter and destruction of ‘villages’ by the white invaders forced the Sydney government to investigate and so began administering ‘law and order’ at Port Phillip. By 1838 Sydney trumped Batman’s land-grab and the penal government of NSW on the one hand executing eight ‘whites’ for killing what the newspapers called ‘savages’, while on the other hand providing sufficient speedy cavalry to tackle black resistance in Victoria at places such as west of Colac and near Benalla after the Faithfull massacre. The arrival in 1839 of first governor La Trobe and the Aboriginal Protectorate plan then unfolds the development of town civic structures while tribal life disintegrates. Government and private measures to ‘tame the naked Melbourne natives’ culminated with the dawn Merri Creek round-up in October 1840 of hundreds of Kulins by Major Lettsom’s redcoats and townsmen. This appears as the death blow to tribal life, and with the first shiploads of migrating British colonists arriving in 1841, near genocide for the Kulin, Mara, Kurnai and Murray River first-peoples.
Book Synopsis The Murray by : Paul Geoffrey Sinclair
Download or read book The Murray written by Paul Geoffrey Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, analysis, poetry, art and individuals' recollections are interwoven to describe the brief heyday of the riverboats on the Murray river and their transformation into a tourist attraction, the decline of the mighty Murray cod and the rise of the European carp, and the changing fortunes of the river towns.
Book Synopsis A History of the Water Resources Branch of the United States Geological Survey by : Robert Follansbee
Download or read book A History of the Water Resources Branch of the United States Geological Survey written by Robert Follansbee and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Interesting History of the Murray and Darling Rivers by : Emily Stehr
Download or read book Interesting History of the Murray and Darling Rivers written by Emily Stehr and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interesting History of the Murray and Darling Rivers
Book Synopsis The Murray River by : Shane Strudwick
Download or read book The Murray River written by Shane Strudwick and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2012 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At more than 2,520 kilometres long, [the Murray] is [Australia's] most important river. ... From ancient times, to pioneering days, to the environmental challenges of today - it has been at the centre of the story of [Australia]. ..."--Back cover.
Book Synopsis Records of the Proceedings and Printed Papers of the Parliament by : Australia. Parliament
Download or read book Records of the Proceedings and Printed Papers of the Parliament written by Australia. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Light that Time Has Made by : Sir Paul Hasluck
Download or read book Light that Time Has Made written by Sir Paul Hasluck and published by National Library Australia. This book was released on 1995 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays and reviews written by Paul Hasluck in the years before his death in 1993. Contrasts social attitudes in Australia early in the century with attitudes 60 or more years later. Also presents anecdotes about several of his contemporaries, including Curtin, Evatt, Menzies, Gorton, McMahon and Whitlam. Paul Hasluck was born in the country, son of Salvation Army parents. During his life he was variously: journalist, poet, drama critic, war historian, author, publisher, anthropologist, public servant, diplomat, federal minister and Governor-General. Includes an introduction and postscript by his son, Nicholas Hasluck.
Book Synopsis The Aborigines of Victoria: with Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of Other Parts of Australia and Tasmania by :
Download or read book The Aborigines of Victoria: with Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of Other Parts of Australia and Tasmania written by and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: