Book Description
p.69-73; Employment on stations; early hostilities (quote J. Lewis, Mrs. Gunn); spearing & frightening cattle McArthur River Tempe Downs; p.135, 141; Attacks on cattle Roper, Hodgson Rivers depredations, Victoria River.
Author : Ross Duncan
Publisher : [Melbourne] : Melbourne University Press [and] Monash University
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 19,6 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Cattle trade
ISBN :
p.69-73; Employment on stations; early hostilities (quote J. Lewis, Mrs. Gunn); spearing & frightening cattle McArthur River Tempe Downs; p.135, 141; Attacks on cattle Roper, Hodgson Rivers depredations, Victoria River.
Author : Darrell Lewis
Publisher : Monash University Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1921867264
The frontiersmen who came to the Victoria River District of Australia’s Northern Territory included cattle and horse thieves, outlaws, capitalists, dreamers, drunks, madmen and others, from the explorers of the 1830s and 1850s to the founders of the big stations in the 1880s and 1890s, and the cattle duffers in the early 1900s. This book looks at them all. Drawing on painstaking research into obscure and rich documentary sources, Aboriginal oral traditions, and first-hand investigations conducted in the region over thirty-five years, Darrell Lewis pieces together the complex interactions between the environment, the powerful and warlike Aboriginal tribes and the settlers and their cattle, which produced what truly became A Wild History.
Author : Michael Pearson
Publisher : CSIRO PUBLISHING
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 32,89 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 0643102132
Pastoral Australia tells the story of the expansion of Australia's pastoral industry, how it drove European settlement and involved Aboriginal people in the new settler society. The rural life that once saw Australia 'ride on the sheep's back' is no longer what defines us, yet it is largely our history as a pastoral nation that has endured in heritage places and which is embedded in our self-image as Australians. The challenges of sustaining a pastoral industry in Australia make a compelling story of their own. Developing livestock breeds able to prosper in the Australian environment was an ongoing challenge, as was getting wool and meat to market. Many stock routes, wool stores, abattoirs, wharf facilities, railways, roads, and river and ocean transport systems that were developed to link the pastoral interior with the urban and market infrastructure still survive. Windmills, fences, homesteads, shearing sheds, bores, stock yards, travelling stock routes, bush roads and railheads all changed the look of the country. These features of our landscape form an important part of our heritage. They are symbols of a pastoral Australia, and of the foundations of our national identity, which will endure long into the future.
Author : Sam D. Gill
Publisher :
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Aboriginal Australians
ISBN : 0198027540
Yet, beyond the pessimism that often characterizes postmodernity, he charts an optimistic and creative course framed in the terms of play.
Author : Brian Clive Devlin
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 29,88 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9811020787
This book provides the first detailed history of the Bilingual Education Program in the Northern Territory of Australia. This ambitious and innovative program began in 1973 and at different times it operated in English and 19 Aboriginal languages in 29 very remote schools. The book draws together the grassroots perspectives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous practitioners and researchers. Each chapter is based on rich practitioner experience, capturing bottom-up aspirations, achievements and reflections on this innovative, yet largely undocumented language and education program. The volume also makes use of a significant collection of ‘grey literature’ documents to trace the history of the program. An ethnographic approach has been used to integrate practitioner accounts into the contexts of broader social and political forces, education policy decisions and on-the-ground actions. Language in education policy is viewed at multiple, intersecting levels: from the interactions of individuals, communities of practice and bureaucracy, to national and global forces. The book offers valuable insights as it examines in detail the policy settings that helped and hindered bilingual education in the context of minority language rights in Australia and elsewhere.
Author : George Alexander
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 29,86 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Animal industry
ISBN :
Author : Ross Duncan
Publisher :
Page : 964 pages
File Size : 28,5 MB
Release : 195?
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :
Author : Peter Veth
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1405137533
Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes that combines archaeological and anthropological perspectives and includes a wide range of regional and thematic case studies. Brings together, for the first time, studies from deserts as diverse as the sand dunes of Australia, the U.S. Great Basin, the coastal and high altitude deserts of South America, and the core deserts of Africa Examines the key concepts vital to understanding human adaptation to marginal landscapes and the behavioral and belief systems that underpin them Explores the relationship among desert hunter-gatherers, herders, and pastoralists
Author : O. B. Williams
Publisher :
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Animal industry
ISBN :
Textbook on the technology and practice of sheep and cattle production under grazing conditions in Australia - presents historical background, and covers the wool industry, the meat industries, the dairy industry, feed production, reproduction and genetic improvement, climate, animal production, animal diseases, agricultural management and marketing, etc. Diagrams, references and statistical tables.
Author : Diane J. Austin-Broos
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 10,53 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0226032655
The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and traditions were a seminal influence on European notions of the primitive. The first study to address the Arrernte’s contemporary situation, Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past also documents the immense sociocultural changes they have experienced over the past hundred years. Employing ethnographic and archival research, Diane Austin-Broos traces the history of the Arrernte as they have transitioned from a society of hunter-gatherers to members of the Hermannsburg Mission community to their present, marginalized position in the modern Australian economy. While she concludes that these wrenching structural shifts led to the violence that now marks Arrernte communities, she also brings to light the powerful acts of imagination that have sustained a continuing sense of Arrernte identity.