FROM UNDER A KURRAJONG TREE

FROM UNDER A KURRAJONG TREE
Author: Michael John
Publisher: Gatekeeper Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2020-03-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0648538125

Follow the life of Jack Jeffery from his birth under a Kurrajong tree in country Victoria, to the hell of fighting the Japanese on the deadly Kokoda Track. On his life journey Jack finds love, becomes a shearer and a promising tent boxer. Through the ups and downs of life Jack learns quickly there is nothing more important than sticking up for a mate when he is in a jam. In the hell that was the Kokoda Track in WW 2, all his life’s lessons will be tested when he is faced by wave after wave of battle-hardened Japanese soldiers.

Plants of Central Queensland

Plants of Central Queensland
Author: Eric Anderson
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
Total Pages: 577
Release: 2016-04
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1486302262

Conservation and sustainable productivity are vital issues for Australia. In order to manage vegetation well from an agricultural, recreational or conservation point of view, an understanding of individual plant species is important. Plants of Central Queensland provides a guide for identifying and understanding the plants of the region so that pastoralists and others can be better equipped to manage the vegetation resource of our grazing lands. Central Queensland straddles the Tropic of Capricorn, although many of the plants in the book will also be found outside this area, as shown by their distribution maps. The book provides information on the habit, distribution, foliage and fruits of 525 plant species. Informative notes highlighting declared, poisonous, weed and medicinal plants are included, and plants useful for bees and bush tucker are also noted. These are the most important plants you might see if you live in or travel through central Queensland. This book has an easy-to-read, non-botanical format, with helpful photographs and distribution maps that greatly aid anyone interested in the vegetation of central Queensland. It is based on a previous work of the same title but is greatly expanded, incorporating information on an additional 285 plant species.

Heartland

Heartland
Author: George Main
Publisher: UNSW Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780868408736

"How do we imagine and engage with the agricultural heartlands of Australia? In the city and the bush, how do we see ourselves in relation to the farmland that nourishes us all? Heartland explores the cultural and historical foundations of ecological change and disorder across the southwest slopes of New South Wales, a rich and productive agricultural region. Rural places are today calling everyone, George Main suggests, into relationships of mutual care."--BOOK JACKET.

A Land Fit for Heroines

A Land Fit for Heroines
Author: Barbara Pillans
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2016-11-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1524518530

This book documents the lives of twenty-one women on soldier settler blocks in New South Wales after World War II. Their stories relate how they came to live on virtually virgin land and lived in tents and sheds with no electricity and no running water. They established their homes and worked side by side with their husbands on the farms. At the same time, they brought up their children far from family support and with medical help difficult to access on sometimes impassable roads. They survived floods, drought, and bushfires. Their stories show it was the women who brought the communities on the soldier settlements together. A number of the women reveal personal tragedies that set even greater challenges for them to face. Through it all though, these women have shown amazing strength, resilience, and selflessness. Their contribution to their families, their farms, their communities, and the state of New South Wales is significant.

Life on the Rocks

Life on the Rocks
Author: Philippa Nikulinsky
Publisher: Fremantle Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1999
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9781921361289

Back by popular demand, the latest edition comes in a handsome hardcover format. Anyone interested in the natural history of Western Australia will find this fine publication a must for their bookshelf - The West Australian . . . a book for anyone with a love of the bush, gardens and art - Hobart Mercury . . . with exquisite illustrations by Philippa Nikulinsky and a lively text by Stephen Hopper the book is in the tradition of the Age of Exploration's treasured natural history books - Summer Reading Guide

Agriculture and Resilience in Australia’s North

Agriculture and Resilience in Australia’s North
Author: Keith Noble
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2019-08-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9811383553

This book examines the mechanisms and strategies farmers in North Australia adopt to manage the setbacks and challenges they face. This social research is based on farmers’ experiences, but also draws on the author’s own experience after his tropical fruit farm was destroyed by two Category 5 cyclones in five years. Through historical analysis, the book compares historic and contemporary aspirations for northern development, and discusses the influence of the built environment on individuals as well as access to health and other social services. Exploring the implications of individual resilience strategies for policy development within the broader context of northern development and evolving environmental governance, the book also highlights the fact that this is occurring in a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. The book will provide a unique perspective and understanding to government, individuals and industries interested in northern Australia and its relationship to the world

Report

Report
Author: Western Australia. Dept. of Mines
Publisher:
Total Pages: 330
Release: 1916
Genre: Mines and mineral resources
ISBN: