Mallee Country, land, people, history, Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor & Katie Holmes
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Mallee Country, land, people, history, Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor & Katie Holmes
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Mallee Country
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Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor & Katie Holmes
Sub title
land, people, history
Summary
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening and burning the mallee to make way for wheat. Government backed settlement schemes devastated lives and country, but some farmers learnt how to survive the droughts, dust storms, mice, locusts and salinity - as well as the vagaries of international markets - and became some of Australia's most resilient agriculturalists. In Mallee Country, innovation and tenacity have been neighbours to hardship and failure. Mallee Country is a story of how land and people shape each other. It is the story of how a landscape once derided by settlers as a 'howling wilderness' covered in 'dismal scrub' became home to citizens who delighted in mallee fauna and flora and fought to conserve it for future generations. And it is the story of the dreams, sweat and sorrows of people who face an uncertain future of depopulation and climate change with creativity and hope
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- Land use -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Land use -- Western Australia
- Murray Mallee (S. Aust.) -- History
- Natural resources -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Nonfiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Western Australia
- Mallee Region (Vic.) -- History
- Land use -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Agriculture -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Mallee lands -- Western Australia
- Agriculture -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Frontier and pioneer life -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Agriculture -- Western Australia
- Natural history -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Natural history -- Western Australia
- Natural resources -- Western Australia
- Western Australia -- History
- Natural history -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Natural resources -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Mallee lands -- Australia
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- Has instance1
Outgoing Resources
- Classification2
- Contributor3
- Creator1
- Subject21
- Land use -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Land use -- Western Australia
- Murray Mallee (S. Aust.) -- History
- Natural resources -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Nonfiction
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Western Australia
- Mallee Region (Vic.) -- History
- Land use -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Agriculture -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Mallee lands -- Western Australia
- Agriculture -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Frontier and pioneer life -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Agriculture -- Western Australia
- Natural history -- South Australia -- Murray Mallee
- Natural history -- Western Australia
- Natural resources -- Western Australia
- Western Australia -- History
- Natural history -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Natural resources -- Victoria -- Mallee Region
- Mallee lands -- Australia
- Content3
- Author4