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The Bush

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by Don Watson


  Waiting for the Fire

  Dylan quoted in Robert Shelton, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan, New York, 1986. For hybridisation, Paul Gullan, Viridans Biological Databases (viridans.com/RAREPL/longway), David L. Field, et.al., ‘Molecular and Morphological Evidence of Natural and interspecific hybridization . . .’ journals.ohiolink.edu/ejc/search. For von Mueller, Guilfoyle, et. al. and the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, Paul Fox, Clearings. Von Mueller in Libby Robbin, ‘Visions of Nature . . .’ Victorian Naturalist, Vol. 102, No. 5, 1985, p. 156. Naturalised plants, A. Thellung, ‘La Flore adventice de Montpellier’, Memoires de la Societe Nationale des Sciences Naturelles et Mathematiques de Cherbourg, 1912, trans. R.H. Groves (ed.). Australian Vegetation, 2nd edition, Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 58. Fire resisters, The Australian, 1 January 2010. Roethke, Kathleen Daventry, ‘Memoir’, NLA, MS 9467.

  Appendix

  For the big kangaroo hunt, Bloxsome Papers. Les Murray, ‘Second Essay on Interest: The Emu’, The People’s Otherworld, Sydney, 1993. Ronald M. and Catherine H. Berndt, The World of the First Australians, p. 113. Mitchell, Journal, p. 306. Hawdon, op. cit., pp. 36–37. For the emu egg myth, see, e.g. Berndt, op. cit.I, pp. 394–95. H.S. Gullett quoted in Australian War Memorial, Encyclopedia, ‘“Kangaroo feathers” and the Australian Light Horse’. More recently emus have been taken up by New Age people, viz.: ‘The energy of emu tends to come about at a time when rapid movement can be nourishing’, wildspeak.com.

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