Lecture 2

Lecture 2

1. Australia

   • Polarised
   • Wealth/health disparity
   • Pop clustered coastal

2. History

   • 1788 Col
   • Convicts/free setllers
   • Import: Christianity, British legal/edu system
   • Export gold/ set up agric
   • $10 poms
   • Land of exploration

3. Indigenous History

   • Large no. peoples
   • 300+ lang
   • Nomadic
   • Territory Responsibility
   • Knowledge from the dreaming
   • Treatment
     • Part of 'flora & fauna'
     • Lost land, language, cultural practice
     • Stolen generation
     • Massacres
     • Slave labour

4. Indigenous Now

   • reconciliation attempts
   • poverty, early death, unemployment
   • Establishing own organisations, funding difficult
   • 'A future based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual responsibility ' govt appology

5. Env

   • Threats
     • Fire
     • Feral animals
     • Drought
     • Climate change
   • Problems
     • Reliance industry/exports
     • Reliance resource exploit
       • e.g. tin, copper, logging
     • Large tracks unprotected land

6. Styx Valley, Tasmania

   • Houn Pine
   • 400 yrs old
   • 300-600 ha /yr logged
   • Forest Activism
     • Diverse support
     • Deep Green
     • Wilderness Society, Tasmanian Green Party, Timber Workers for Forests
     • Successes: Franklin Area - World Heritage Area

7. 'Wilderness'

   • Implies land empty of people
   • 'Wild people make wild country'
   • Romanticisation

8. Acknowledge Ind Rights/Knowledge

   • Land Rights legislation
     • Native title act
     • Mostly Northern
     • language change, underlying view unaltered

9. Good practice: ACF

   • Opposed NPs if Ind object
   • Indigenous Policy Officers
   • 'we talk about nature and culture'
   • Avoid 'wilderness'