Growing Up On The Goldfields
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Growing Up On The Goldfields
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Author : Kimberley Webber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Growing Up On The Goldfields written by Kimberley Webber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Australia categories.
"Contains information on the historical aspects of the Australian gold rushes - first discoveries to gold mining in Australia today; life on the goldfields, including family life, social life, law and order, and the everyday life of the digger; the impact on Australia of the gold rushes. For middle-upper primary." --Seekbooks.
The Australian Gold Rushes
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Author : Kimberley Webber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Australian Gold Rushes written by Kimberley Webber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Australia categories.
Ten Delightful Tales Growing Up On The Goldfields
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Author : Doug Bradby
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-12
Ten Delightful Tales Growing Up On The Goldfields written by Doug Bradby and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12 with categories.
Growing Up Asian In Australia
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Author : Alice Pung
language : en
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Release Date : 2015-01-29
Growing Up Asian In Australia written by Alice Pung and has been published by ReadHowYouWant.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-29 with Literary Collections categories.
Asian - Australians have often been written about by outsiders, as outsiders. In this collection, compiled by award - winning author Alice Pung, they tell their own stories with verve, courage and a large dose of humour. These are not predictable tales of food, festivals and traditional dress. The food is here in all its steaming glory - but listen more closely to the dinner - table chatter and you might be surprised by what you hear. Here are tales of leaving home, falling in love, coming out and finding one's feet. A young Cindy Pan vows to win every single category of Nobel Prize. Tony Ayres blows a kiss to a skinhead and lives to tell the tale. Benjamin Law has a close encounter with some angry Australian fauna, and Kylie Kwong makes a moving pilgrimage to her great - grandfather's Chinese village. Here are well - known authors and exciting new voices, spanning several generations and drawn from all over Australia. In sharing their stories, they show us what it is really like to grow up Asian, and Australian. Contributors include: Shaun Tan, Jason Yat - Sen Li, John So, Annette Shun Wah, Quan Yeomans, Jenny Kee, Anh Do, Khoa Do, Caroline Tran and many more.
Sludge
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Author : Peter Davies
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2019-08-05
Sludge written by Peter Davies and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-05 with History categories.
The fascinating, troubling legacy of the gold rush. Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste: ‘sludge’. Sludge submerged Victoria’s best grapevines near Bendigo, filled Laanecoorie Reservoir on the Loddon River and flowed down from Beechworth over thousands of hectares of rich agricultural land. Children and animals drowned in sludge lakes. Mining effluent contaminated three-quarters of Victoria’s creeks and rivers. Sludge is the compelling story of the forgotten filth that plagued nineteenth-century Victoria. It exposes the big dirty secret of Victoria’s mining history – the way it transformed the state’s water and land, and how the battle against sludge helped lay the ground for the modern environmental movement. ‘Sludge is a fascinating, entangled story of human endeavour and environmental destruction. An exciting and timely reminder that history is a dirty business, precisely because it oozes its way into the present.’ —Clare Wright ‘Sludge, slurry, slickens or porridge: call it what you will, mining waste made a mess of Victoria’s environment. In Sludge, Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies carefully investigate this murky history of greed, mismanagement, reform and forgetting. It is a gripping account of an environmental catastrophe, and it vividly conveys the long-term costs of short-term gains.’—Billy Griffiths ‘This is the book about the goldfields I most wanted to read but didn’t think could be written. It’s a remarkable achievement.’—Tom Griffiths ‘If Victorians dreamed of glittering gold, what they got was a tidal wave of sludge that covered the land like a poisonous blanket and made the rivers run thick as gruel. Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies vividly recreate the forgotten landscapes of nineteenth-century Victoria, revealing how people and mining destroyed the country that nurtured them, and how that silent legacy is still with us today. Here is a powerful parable, a work of brilliant rediscovery and a wakeup call for our own times.’ —Grace Karskens
And Be Home Before Dark
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Author : Roland Rocchiccioli
language : en
Publisher: Hardie Grant
Release Date : 2008-09-02
And Be Home Before Dark written by Roland Rocchiccioli and has been published by Hardie Grant this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"An evocative memoir of growing up in the North-eastern Goldfields of Western Australia"--Provided by publisher.
Daily Life On The Goldfields
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Author : Kimberley Webber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Daily Life On The Goldfields written by Kimberley Webber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Australia categories.
Contains information on the historical aspects of the Australian gold rushes - first discoveries to gold mining in Australia today; life on the goldfields, including family life, social life, law and order, and the everyday life of the digger; the impact on Australia of the gold rushes. 9 yrs.
Kolar Gold Fields Down Memory Lane
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Author : Bridget White
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2010-08-20
Kolar Gold Fields Down Memory Lane written by Bridget White and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-20 with Literary Collections categories.
Kolar Gold Fields is a small mining town in the erstwhile Mysore State (now known as Karnataka) in India. It was owned by the John Taylor and Sons Company, a British Mining Firm for more than a century. It was well known for its Colonial ambience and was called Little England due to its British and Anglo-Indian population. It was one of Indias earliest industrialized towns and was unique for its secular and egalitarian society. Aptly named Kolar Gold Fields Down Memory Lane the book undertakes a nostalgic journey right from the days of the origins of the Kolar Gold Mines, its historical and mythological connections, its golden progress through the years under the John Taylor and Sons Company, its gradual decline, and the final closure of the once prosperous Kolar Gold Mining Company in 2003. Thus ending a golden chapter in History, which now lies buried in the annals of time. It then moves on to the Anglo-Indian Community (a living legacy of the British Raj) in the early days of KGF. It brings out vividly the glorious and cosmopolitan life led by that tiny vibrant community in KGF who lived in sprawling bungalows with beautiful gardens and domestic helpers at their beck and call. It recalls the grand Christmas Balls and Dances held at the Skating Rink and the Jam Sessions and Pound Parties in Buffalo Lodge. It finally focuses on the author's childhood memories of growing up in KGF in the 1950s and 60s. It reminds one of lifes many simple pleasures home, family, school, playmates, entertainments, games, etc. It recalls memories of old familiar haunts and landmarks of KGF and the people who were an indispensable part of life in those days. It succeeds in preserving the nuances of a bygone era.
Growing Up Disabled In Australia
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Author : Carly Findlay
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2021-02-03
Growing Up Disabled In Australia written by Carly Findlay and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-02-03 with Social Science categories.
A rich collection of writing from those negotiating disability in their lives - a group whose voices are not heard often enough My body and its place in the world seemed normal to me. Why wouldn’t it? I didn’t grow up disabled; I grew up with a problem. A problem that those around me wanted to fix. We have all felt that uncanny sensation that someone is watching us. The diagnosis helped but it didn’t fix everything. Don’t fear the labels. That identity, which I feared for so long, is now one of my greatest qualities. I had become disabled – not just by my disease, but by the way the world treated me. When I found that out, everything changed. One in five Australians has a disability. And disability presents itself in many ways. Yet disabled people are still underrepresented in the media and in literature. In Growing Up Disabled in Australia – compiled by writer and appearance activist Carly Findlay OAM – more than forty writers with a disability or chronic illness share their stories, in their own words. The result is illuminating. Contributors include senator Jordon Steele-John, paralympian Isis Holt, Dion Beasley, Sam Drummond, Astrid Edwards, Sarah Firth, El Gibbs, Eliza Hull, Gayle Kennedy, Carly-Jay Metcalfe, Fiona Murphy, Jessica Walton and many more.
Antipodean Childhoods
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Author : Helga Ramsey-Kurz
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-05-15
Antipodean Childhoods written by Helga Ramsey-Kurz and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Though obvious, the productiveness of combining the three concepts of childhood, otherness and the postcolonial has not inspired much academic inquiry so far. The essays assembled in this book make up for this omission and address aspects of growing up in Australia and New Zealand from various angles. They base their argument on the premise that, whether in settler, migrant or indigenous communities, children tend to be ascribed a space of their own, mostly outside but never independent of that of adults. How adults configure this space both practically and imaginatively, for instance in the arts, in adult and children’s literature, in film and photography, or in historical documents, is one of the questions answered in the process. How these configurations have developed with time and under the influence of specific historical circumstances is another. Thus, the individual papers are more than a contribution to the current (re-)discovery of the theme of childhood in European cultures in that Antipodean Childhoods remains centrally concerned with the cultural specificity of childhoods lived in Australia and New Zealand and with the theoretical relevance of this specificity to postcolonial literary, cultural and historical studies.