Murray River Country
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Touring Murray River Country
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Author : Derrick I. Stone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Touring Murray River Country written by Derrick I. Stone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Murray River (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) categories.
Murray River Country
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Author : Jessica K. Weir
language : en
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Release Date : 2009
Murray River Country written by Jessica K. Weir and has been published by Aboriginal Studies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Place, country, and care are at the heart of this wise book, which is so astutely responsive to the diverse, active Aboriginal individuals and nations of the Murray-Darling Basin Like the Central Valley of California near where I live, where vast rivers and wetlands have been engineered to produce a precarious and poisoned breadbasket for settler empires, the Murray-Darling Basin cries out for new practices of care from all of its people. Weir's book gives me hope that these blasted places and the lives of so many species, human and not, might again be whole, in new ways and old. Donna Haraway, History of Consciousness Department, University of California at Santa Cruz Murray River Country brings a fresh narrative to Australia's water crisis - the intimate stories of love and loss of the Aboriginal people who know the inland rivers as their traditional country. The Murray River's devastation demands that something fundamental changes in our water philosophies. Weir moves readers beyond questions of how much water will be `returned' to the rivers, to understand that our economy, and our lives, are dependent on river health. She draws on western and Indigenous knowledge traditions to unsettle the boundaries of the current debates. In doing so she shows how powerfully influential yet unacknowledged assumptions continue to trap our thinking and disable us from taking effective action. By engaging with the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's agricultural heartland, and the Murray River, Australia's greatest river, Murray River Country goes to the heart of our national understandings of how we are to live in this country.
Flood Country
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Author : Emily O'Gorman
language : en
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Release Date : 2012-08-01
Flood Country written by Emily O'Gorman and has been published by CSIRO PUBLISHING this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with Science categories.
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.
The Murray River
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Author : Institution of Engineers Australia. Victoria Division and South Australian Division. Joint Country Convention
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1980*
The Murray River written by Institution of Engineers Australia. Victoria Division and South Australian Division. Joint Country Convention and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980* with Murray River (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) categories.
Slow River
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Author : Steve Strevens
language : en
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Release Date : 2006-07
Slow River written by Steve Strevens and has been published by Allen & Unwin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07 with Travel categories.
Steve Strevens has lived on the Murray for almost 40 years. During that time he has fished and swum in its waters, climbed and swung from its trees, collected firewood from its forests, kicked a footy along the flats nearby, and made some of his most important decisions sitting on its banks. He even spread his father's ashes on its waters. Slow River is his ode to the Murray and an exploration of why and how it is more than just a river. Bumping along in his ute and steering his old tinnie, Steve explores the full length of the Murray from its source in a small swampy puddle hidden in a clump of tea trees in the mountains to where it meets the sea. This is a rich and generous portrait of the river, its many moods and the people and communities who depend upon it for their sanity and survival.
Wounded Country
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Author : Quentin Beresford
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Wounded Country written by Quentin Beresford and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) categories.
Like many Australians, I looked on with horror as images of a million dead fish swamped the media and consumed the news cycle. I resolved to dig deeper. The Murray-Darling Basin is under threat. This vast and spectacular geographical region, covering one million square kilometres from central Queensland to South Australia, has been exploited for nearly 200 years. Soil erosion, sand drifts, dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, threatened native flora and fauna, the drying out of internationally recognised wetlands and steadily worsening droughts have repeatedly brought large parts of the Basin to its knees. In Wounded Country, award-winning author Quentin Beresford investigates the complex history of Australia's largest and most important river system. Waves of farmers exploited the region's potential, with little consideration for the environmental consequences. Dispossession and marginalisation denied local First Nations people their lands and European settlers the Indigenous cultural knowledge to manage the Basin sustainably. Instead, we've had 'nation-building' irrigation schemes and agricultural enterprises promoted by politicians focused on short-term profits and a development-at-all-costs approach. Expert advice and warnings about long-term environmental effects have been continually sidelined. We're now at a point of reckoning. How can we save the once mighty Murray-Darling?
River Girl
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Author : Glenda Andrew
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
River Girl written by Glenda Andrew and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Aboriginal Australians categories.
Glenda Andrew grew up as granddaughter of famous Pastor Doug Nicholls and traditional Nan Karpany on the other. This is her memoir.
Report On The Geology Of The Country South And East Of The Murray River C
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Author : Geological Survey of South Australia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
Report On The Geology Of The Country South And East Of The Murray River C written by Geological Survey of South Australia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with categories.
Wounded Country
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Author : Quentin Beresford
language : en
Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
Release Date : 2021-09-01
Wounded Country written by Quentin Beresford and has been published by NewSouth Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-01 with History categories.
Like many Australians, I looked on with horror as images of a million dead fish swamped the media and consumed the news cycle. I resolved to dig deeper. The Murray–Darling Basin is under threat. This vast and spectacular geographical region, covering one million square kilometres from central Queensland to South Australia, has been exploited for nearly 200 years. Soil erosion, sand drifts, dust storms, salinity, algal blooms, threatened native flora and fauna, the drying out of internationally recognised wetlands and steadily worsening droughts have repeatedly brought large parts of the Basin to its knees. In Wounded Country, award-winning author Quentin Beresford investigates the complex history of Australia’s largest and most important river system. Waves of farmers exploited the region’s potential, with little consideration for the environmental consequences. Dispossession and marginalisation denied local First Nations people their lands and European settlers the Indigenous cultural knowledge to manage the Basin sustainably. Instead, we’ve had ‘nation-building’ irrigation schemes and agricultural enterprises promoted by politicians focused on short-term profits and a development-at-all-costs approach. Expert advice and warnings about long-term environmental effects have been continually sidelined. We’re now at a point of reckoning. How can we save the once mighty Murray–Darling? ‘One of the most important books to emerge in recent decades concerning both Australia's dangerous environmental mismanagement and the indivisible plunder of Indigenous society.’ — Charles Massy
Daughter Of The River Country
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Author : Dianne O'Brien
language : en
Publisher: Bonnier Zaffre Ltd.
Release Date : 2021-08-05
Daughter Of The River Country written by Dianne O'Brien and has been published by Bonnier Zaffre Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-05 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A heartbreaking, redemptive memoir of raw power, Daughter of the River Country is the story of an extraordinary journey from a childhood as one of Australia's Stolen Generation to Aboriginal Elder Born in rural Australia in the 1940s, baby Dianne is immediately taken from her parents and placed with a white family. Raised in an era of widespread racism, she grows up believing her Irish adoptive mother is her birth mother. When her adoptive mother tragically dies and she is abandoned by her adoptive father, Dianne is raped, sent to the brutal Parramatta Girls Home and forced to marry her rapist in order to keep her baby. After suffering years of domestic abuse, but refusing to let her spirit be broken, Dianne finally discovers she is a Yorta Yorta woman, a daughter of the river country, and is reunited with her birth mother. She learns that her great-grandfather was a famous Aboriginal activist and from here she becomes a powerful leader in her own right, vowing to help others in any way she can. Daughter of the River Country explores for the first time the devastation caused to Australia's Aboriginal Stolen Generation, who were forcibly placed with white families as part of a government assimilation programme. 'A compelling memoir about the power of love and staying the course.' LINDA BURNEY, the first Aboriginal Member of Australia's House of Representatives