Always be suspicious of the word ‘impossible’. It is possible to build a house that will survive bushfire. It is also possible to learn enough about our land to control them.
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Notes
Like most knowledge packrats, I tend to cut out articles of interest without noting their proper references. Even more data is consigned to the ‘this is relevant’ portion of my memory without attribution. I apologise for the lack of page and other references in some endnotes; apologies, too, for having too many endnotes for easy reference, and perhaps too few to adequately substantiate each assertion. Many points would need their own book to do so.
INTRODUCTION: THE GOAT DROPPINGS THAT CHANGED HISTORY
1. Beaglehole, John Cawte (1901–1971) & Cook, James, 1728–1779. Voyage of the Endeavour, 1768-1771 & Hakluyt Society, The journals of Captain James Cook: addenda and corrigenda to volume 1, The voyage of the Endeavour, 1768–1771. Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press, Cambridge, 1968.
2. Hasluck, Alexandra. Portrait with Background: a Life of Georgiana Molloy. Oxford University Press. Melbourne 1955.
3. Australian Rainfall Patterns. Climate Information. Bureau of Meteorology. www.bom.gov.au/climate. Accessed 13.7.2013.
4. Carboni, Raffaello. (1855), The Eureka Stockade, first published 1855. Retrieved 28 June 2013, from Project Gutenberg Australia (e00015.txt).
5. Ibid.
6. List of Indigenous Australian Group names. Wikipedia.en.wikipedia. org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_Australia. Accessed 12.7.2013; Maps. AIATSIS. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. (www.aiatsis.gov.au/research/language.html)
CHAPTER 1: THE REAL FIRST FLEET
1. O’Connor, Sue. ‘Out of Asia’, Australasian Science, May 2012.
2. Young, Emma. ‘New arrival date for earliest Australians’, New Scientist, 18 February 2006.
3. Marshall, Michael. ‘Humans colonised Asia in two waves’, New Scientist, 22 September 2010. Breaking News. Issue no. 2902.
4. Hooper, Rowan. ‘Humans took the scenic route out of Africa’, New Scientist, 21 May 2005. Issue No 2500.
5. Sara, S. (Presenter), MacDonald, A. (Reporter) & Cooper, A. (Guest ‘Evidence of gene flow between India and Australia 4000 years ago’, radio broadcast, in M. Colvin (Producer). PM, 15 January 2013, Australia: ABC Radio National. Sydney.
6. Ibid.
7. Dr Jonica Newby. Catalyst, ABC TV, 20 September 2012.
8. Nichols, R. J., & Cazenave, A. (2010). ‘Sea-Level Rise and Its Impact on Coastal Zones’, Science, 328 (5985), 1517-1520.
9. E. Hagelberg, M. Kayser, M. Nagy, L. Roewer, H. Zimdahl, M. Krawczak, P. Lió and W. Schiefenhöve, Molecular genetic evidence for the human settlement of the Pacific: analysis of mitochondrial DNA, Y chromosome and HLA markers, Published 29 January 1999. Retrieved at doi: 10.1098/rstb.1999.0367Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B 29 January 1999 vol. 354 no. 1379 141-152. Accessed 12 July 2013.
10. Wroe, S., Field, J. H., Archer, M., Grayson, D. K., Price, G., Louys, J., et al. Climate change frames debate over the extinction of megafauna in Sahul Pleistocene Society, University Press, Cambridge, 2013.
CHAPTER 2: THE ICE AGE THAT MADE THREE HUNDRED NATIONS
1. Kearins. Judith. M. ‘Visual spatial memory in Australian Aboriginal children of desert regions’, University of Western Australia, Australian Cognitive Psychology, Volume 13, Issue 3, July 1981, Pages 434–460.
2. Curr, E. M. Continental Australia: showing the routes by which the Aboriginal race spread itself throughout the continent. Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies: www.aiatsis.gov.au/research/language.html
3. Nichols, R. J., & Cazenave, A, op. cit.
4. Sara, S. (Presenter), MacDonald, A. (Reporter) & Cooper, A. (Guest), op. cit.
5. Wroe, S., Field, J. H., Archer, M., Grayson, D. K., Price, G., Louys, J., et al., op. cit.
6. Nicholls, N., ‘Historical El Niño/Southern Oscillation variability in the Australian region’, in H. F. Diaz & V. Markgraf (eds), El Niño: Historical and Paleoclimatic Aspects of the Southern Oscillation, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 1992.
7. List of Indigenous Australian Group names, Wikipedia, op. cit.; Maps. AIATSIS, op. cit.
8. Ancient aquaculture site is now a heritage treasure. ECOS. (Not attributed). CSIRO Publishing. 1.8.2004.
CHAPTER 3: COOPERATE OR DIE
1. Sherwood, Steven, Kjellstrom, Tord & Green, Donna, ‘Heat Stress in a Warming World’, Australasian Science. December 2010.
2. Sara, S. (Presenter), MacDonald, A. (Reporter) & Cooper, A. (Guest), op. cit.; Curnoe, Darren, Cooper, Alan & Roberts, Richard, commenting on ‘Aboriginal Genome Reveals New Insights into Early Human’, Australasian Science, November 2011; List of Indigenous Australian Group names, Wikipedia, op. cit.; Maps. AIATSIS, op. cit.; O’Shannessy, Carmel. ‘New Australian Language Discovered’, Language. Linguistic Society of America. June 2013.
3. Luntz, Stephen. ‘Butterfly Behaviour Link to Warming’, Australasian Science. May 2010.
4. Beaglehole, John Cawte, Cook, James & Hakluyt Society, op. cit.
CHAPTER 4: THE WOMEN WHO MADE THE LAND
1. Donaldson, Susan Dale, Ellis, Patricia, Feary, Sue, NSW Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority: Djuuwin Women’s Perspective on the Moruya Deua River Catchment, August 2012. Draft Final Report. NSW Southern Rivers Catchment Management Authority. 2013.
2. Luntz, Stephen. ‘Indigenous Migraine Treatment’, Australasian Science. May 2010; ‘Research Confirms Aboriginal Medicine “kinos” Promising Antibacterial Treatment’, ScienceNetwork Western Australia. Australasian Science, December 2012.
3. Australian Rainfall Patterns. Climate Information. Bureau of Meteorology, op. cit.
4. ‘Shaking more from bush trees’ ECOS. (Not attributed). CSIRO Publishing. 1.9.1996.
5. Yeang, Lily & Woodward, Emma. ‘When the Ghost Gum Peels, Bull Sharks Are fat in the river’, Australasian Science, May 2013.
6. Tester, R. Wombat or wallaby: reminiscences of a trip overland to Melbourne and the goldfields. Mss. B1652. New South Wales: Mitchell Library, n.d.
7. Meredith, Louisa Anne. Notes and sketches of New South Wales during a residence in the colony from 1839 to 1844. John Murray, London, 1844.
8. Young, Emma. ‘Controlled bushfires damage – not protect – wildlife’, New Scientist, 6 October 2003.
9. Inglis, Tim. ‘Dangerous Ground’, Australasian Science, December 2010.
10. Gerritsen, Rupert. ‘Evidence for Indigenous Australian Agriculture’, Australasian Science. July/August 2010.
CHAPTER 5: TERRA INCOGNITA: DREAMS OF GOLD AND A LAND WITHOUT GRASS
1. Hasluck, Alexandra, op. cit.
2. Beaglehole, J. C. (John Cawte, Cook, James & Hakluyt Society, op. cit.
3. Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa, The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 1. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved 1 June 2013.
4. Ibid.
5. Tasman, A. J., Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal of his discovery of Van Diemen’s Land and New Zealand in 1642: with documents relating to his exploration of Australia in 1644: being photo-lithographic facsimiles of the original manuscript … with an English translation … to which are added Life and labours of Abel … by J.E. Heeres … and Observations made with the compass … by W. van Bemmelen. Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, 1898; Heeres, J. E. (n.d.). Abel Janszoon Tasman’s Journal. Project Gutenberg Australia. Retrieved 27 June 2013, from (0600571h.html).
6. Heeres, ibid.
7. Dampier, William, A New Voyage Around the World. 1703. www.archive.org/details/anewvoyageround00dampgoog. Accessed 1 June 2013.
CHAPTER 6: THE GOAT, THE GROCER’S ASSISTANT, AND THE MISTAKE THAT LED TO A NATION
1. Dalrymple, Alexander. An historical collection of the several voyages and discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean. Printed for the author; and sold by J. Nourse, T. Payne, and P. Elmsley, London, 1770.
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p; 2. Cook, James, Beaglehole, John Cawte, Skelton, Raleigh Ashlin & Hakluyt Society, op. cit.
3. Cook, James. Captain Cook’s Journal During His First Voyage Round the World Made in H. M. Bark Endeavour 1768–71 (1893). A Literal Transcription of the Original MSS. with notes and introduction edited by Captain W. J. L. Wharton, R.N., F.R.S. Hydrographer of the Admiralty. Illustrated by Maps and Facsimiles. Project Gutenberg Australia. Retrieved 27 June 2013, from (e00043.html).
4. Ibid.
5. Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791. Page 457.
6. Burney, James, 1750–1821 (2010-10-03). James Burney – Journal on HMS Discovery, 10 Feb. 1776–24 Aug. 1779.
CHAPTER 7: THE COLONY THAT DIDN’T STARVE
1. Frost, Alan. Sir Joseph Banks and the transfer of plants to and from the South Pacific, 1786–1798. Colony Press. Melbourne. 1993.
2. Collins, David. & King, Philip Gidley. An account of the English colony in New South Wales: with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country. Printed for T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies, London, 1798.
3. Phillip, Arthur. The voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay; with an account of the establishment of the colonies of Port Jackson & Norfolk Island; compiled from authentic papers … embellished with fifty five copper plates … London: printed for John Stockdale, 1789.
4. Collins, David. & King, Philip Gidley, op. cit.
5. Phillip, Athur, op. cit.
6. White, John. Journal of a voyage to New South Wales with sixty-five plates of non descript animals, birds … and other natural productions, 1790. In Project Gutenberg Australia. Retrieved 28 June 2013, from (0301531h.html).
7. Ibid.
8. Cribb, A. B., Cribb, J. W. & McCubbin, Charles. Wild Food in Australia. Fontana, Sydney, 1987; Gammage, Bill. The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia. Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest, NSW, 2011; Hardwick, Richard. Nature’s Larder: a Field Guide to the Native Food Plants of the NSW South Coast. Homosapien Books Jerrabomberra, NSW, 2001; Maiden, J. H. The Useful Native Plants of Australia (Including Tasmania). Compendium, Melbourne: 1975; Smith, Keith, Smith, Irene. & Norling, Beth. Grow Your Own Bushfoods. New Holland, Frenchs Forest, NSW 1999; Waverley (NSW Municipality) Council & Australian Archaeological Survey Consultants Pty Ltd. The Waverley Council area: an Aboriginal perspective: a report to the Waverley Council. 1995.
9. White, John, op. cit.
10. Collins, David. & King, Philip Gidley, op. cit.
11. Crittenden, Victor. William Dawes: The Unknown Man of the First Fleet. E book version available from Amazon UK.
12. White, John, op. cit.
13. Phillip, Arthur, op. cit.
14. Tench, Watkin. A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay: With an Account of New South Wales, Its Productions, Inhabitants, &c.: To Which Is Subjoined, a List of the Civil and Military Establishments at Port Jackson (Second edition). London: J. Debrett, 1789; also Tench, W. A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson in New South Wales, including an Accurate Description of the Situation of the Colony; of the Natives; and of Its Natural Productions: Taken on the Spot. London: G. Nicol and J. Sewell, 1793.
15. White, John, op. cit.
16. Tench, Watkin & Flannery, Tim. 1788: Comprising a narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay and a complete account of the settlement at Port Jackson. Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2009.
17. Collins, David. & King, Philip Gidley, op. cit.
18. Ibid.
19. Ibid.
20. Ibid.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Ibid.
25. Mackaness, G. Some Letters of Rev. Richard Johnson, Sydney, 1954. Quoted by various authors. Original text not consulted.
26. Tench, Watkin, A narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay, op. cit.
27. Collins, David. & King, Philip Gidley, op. cit.
28. White, John, op. cit.
CHAPTER 8: THE SECOND, THIRD AND FOURTH AUSTRALIANS
1. Historical Census and Colonial Data Archive. hccda.anu.edu.au/. Accessed 12.6.2013.
2. Early Australian Census Records. guides.slv.vic.gov.au. Research Guides. Accessed 12.7.2013; Australian Census Records. search.ancestry.com.au/search/grouplist.aspx?group=AUSCENSUS. Accessed 12.7.2013.
3. Objects Through Time 1830–1840: Australian History Migration Timeline. www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/exhibition/objectsthroughtime. Accessed 1 June 2013; Early Australian Census Records, op. cit.
4. Ibid.
5. Johnson, Samuel. A journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Printed for W. Strahan and T. Cadell, London, 1775.
6. Historical Census and Colonial Data Archive, op. cit.
7. Ibid.
CHAPTER 9: THE LOST TIGERS AND THE SHEEP THAT ATE AUSTRALIA
1. Lawson, Henry. ‘How the Land was Won’, Humorous and Other Verses, 1900.
2. Anderson, Ian. ‘Australia’s growing disaster’, New Scientist, Issue 1998. 29 July 1995.
3. Historical Census and Colonial Data Archive, op. cit.
4. Nicholls, N, op. cit.; Hendon, H. H., Thompson, D.W.J. & Wheeler, M.C., ‘Australian rainfall and surface temperature variations associated with the Southern Hemisphere annular mode’, Journal of Climate 20: 2452–67, 2007.
5. Cribb, Julian. ‘Solutions to the Global Food Crisis’, Australasian Science, April 2013, based on a paper presented to the Australian Academy of Science’s 2nd Earth System Outlook Conference.
CHAPTER 10: HOW WE ALMOST WON EUREKA
1. Hargraves, Edward Hammond. Australia and Its Goldfields: a historical sketch of the progress of the Australian colonies from the earliest times to the present day with a particular account of the recent gold discoveries and observations n the present aspect of the land question to which are added notices on the use and working of gold in ancient and modern times and an examination of the theories of the sources of gold, with a map and portrait of the author. H. Ingram and Co; London, England, 1855.
2. Clarke, William Branwhite. Papers and notebooks, 1827–1934. ML Mss. 454. State Library of New South Wales.
3. Ibid.
4. O’Brien, Bob, Huyghue, S. D. S. & Sovereign Hill Goldmining Township. Massacre at Eureka: the untold story. Sovereign Hill Museums Association, Ballarat, Victoria, 1998.
5. Carboni, Raffaello. The Eureka Stockade, 1855. In Project Gutenberg Australia. Retrieved 28 June 2013, from (e00015.txt).
6. Australian Government Cultural portal: www.culture.gov.au/articles/eurekastockade/index.htma. Accessed February 2008.
7. Lawson, Henry. ‘A Song of General Sick and Tiredness’, Written 1908. From Henry Lawson’s Poetical Works. Angus & Robertson. Sydney. Reprinted 1951.
8. Turner, Ian & Lalor, Peter. Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 5, Melbourne University Press, 1975, pp 50-54.
9. Carboni, Raffaello, op. cit.
10. Turner, Ian & Lalor, Peter, op. cit.
11. Carboni, Raffaello, op. cit.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Ibid.
18. ‘Ballarat: The statement of Frank Arthur Hasleham’, Geelong Advertiser and Intelligencer, 28 December 1854. Accessed 11.08.13 at Trove: trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/91861589
19. Carboni, op. cit.
20. Ibid.
21. An Act to Further Alter ‘The Victoria Electoral Act of 1851’, assented to 22 May 1855. www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/vic/hist_act/aatfaveao1851atitnomotlcov1084.pdf Accessed 1 June 2013
CHAPTER 11: THE HISTORY OF OUR NATION IN A PUMPKIN SCONE
1. Rudd, Steele & Fischer, A. J. ‘On Our Selection’, The Bulletin, Sydney, 1899; and Rudd, S., ‘Our New Selection’, The Bulletin, Sydney, 1903.
2. Franklin, Miles. Childhood at Brindabella: My first ten years. Angus & Robertson, Sydney. 1963.
3. Smith, Michelle, Gee, Patricia & Redcliffe Council. Redcliffe re
members: the war years 1939–1949. Redcliffe City Council, Redcliffe, Qld, 2004.
4. Bjelke-Petersen, Flo & Cameron, Helen. (1998). Lady Flo: politics and pumpkin scones. [Helen Cameron] Kingaroy, Qld, 1988.
5. French, Maurice. The Lamington enigma: a survey of the evidence. Tabletop Publishing, Toowoomba, Qld, 2013.
CHAPTER 12: HOW A DROUGHT MADE US ONE NATION
1. Matthews, Brian. ‘Lawson, Henry (1867–1922)’, Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 10. Melbourne University Press, 1986, Melbourne.
2. Lawson, Henry. In the Days When the World Was Wide, 1896. In Project Gutenberg Australia. Retrieved June 28, 2013, from Lawson.html.
3. Lawson, Henry. ‘Past Carin’, first published in The Australian Magazine, Sydney, 30 May 1899.
4. Garden, Donald. Droughts, floods & cyclones: El Niños that shaped our colonial past. Australian Scholarly Publishing, North Melbourne, Vic, 2009.
5. Ibid.
6. Official Year Book of the Commonwealth of Australia. No 4. Commonwealth Bureau of Census and Statistics. 1911, page 335.
7. Department of Lands, NSW. Annual Report. Government Printer, Sydney. 1900–1912.
8. 1898 ‘Bushfires in Victoria’, Research Guides at State Library of Victoria. guides.slv.vic.gov.au. Research Guides. Accessed 1 June 2013.
9. ‘The Rabbit Plague’, The Maitland Mercury, 16 January 1870. Trove. trove. nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18823632. Accessed 1 June 2013.
10. ‘Heat waves in New South Wales’, Papers Past, National Library of New Zealand. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=WDT18981020. Accessed 1 June 2013
11. Issues between Monday 1 January 1900 & Friday December 1909 from The Australian Town and Country Journal, NSW. National Library of Australia, Canberra: trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/issues?title=52&yyyymmdd=1900-01. Accessed 1 June 2013.
12. Lawson, Henry & Mahony, Frank. While the Billy Boils. Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1896.
13. The National Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Australia. In Trove. Retrieved 1 July 2013, from nla.gov.au/nla.party-762051
14. Ibid.
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