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The Avon Plains Lakes and Wetlands: Repairing a Priceless Broken System

Professor Barry Golding. A “helicopter view” of the broad triangle between Donald, St Arnaud and Marnoo reveals a broad arc of small but incredibly important natural lakes and wetlands within the Avon-Richardson River catchment between Avon...

Prof. Barry Golding

18 Aug 2020

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2020: Reflections on Reconciliation . . . Why Bother? – and What Can We Do? Part 2

Part 2: Some Next Steps. This final article examines what can we productively do to reconcile with Australia’s First Nations people. First, we need to pick apart the myth that Aboriginal people were not in this rural landscape and simply...

Prof. Barry Golding

14 Jul 2020

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2020: Reflections on Reconciliation . . . Why Bother? – and What Can We Do? Part 1

Part 1: How things have already changed. Reflecting on my series of local historical articles, recently published in the “Buloke Times”, I sense there is a need for a somewhat more positive, forward looking conclusion to draw some of the frayed...

Prof. Barry Golding

10 Jul 2020

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A Darker Side to the Major Mitchell Expedition, 1836: Part 3

Part 3: The First Transit, May 1836. “Kitty” had, by the time this narrative begins, as the expedition crossed the Loddon River north east of present day Wedderburn, become a wife to John Piper, the unpaid Aboriginal guide and mentor to...

Prof. Barry Golding

03 Jul 2020

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A Darker Side to the Major Mitchell Expedition, 1836: Part 2

Part 2: Two Transits Through Dja Dja Country This account is based mainly around insights from original transcripts from Thomas Mitchell’s 1836 diary as well as those of Granton Stapylton, Mitchell’s second in command, published in 1986 in...

Prof. Barry Golding

30 Jun 2020

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A Darker Side to the Major Mitchell Expedition, 1836: Part 1

Part 1: Setting the Scene Major Thomas Mitchell is widely acknowledged for his journeys of exploration and discovery of “new lands” in inland Australia, albeit ones that had already been named, mapped and cultured by First Nations peoples for...

Prof. Barry Golding

26 Jun 2020