Perspectives

Susan Lawrence and Peter Davies discuss the environmental consequences of water-resource infrastructures created during the gold rush in Victoria.

An examination of the role played by Chinese immigration to New Zealand and Australia in the understanding of the environment.

An exploration of the ideas of two postwar Australians, William Hatfield and Flexmore Hudson.

Katie Holmes explores the making of masculinity and the nation-making activity of agricultural practices in Billy Boyd’s photography of settlers in Australia’s Mallee Country.

Twigg traces the journey of Wimmera ryegrass from Europe to Australia, exploring the profound role it has played in shaping farming practices in southern Australia.

Cushing uses the voyage of the First Fleet to illustrate the shift in hierarchies and power relations between humans and animals.

Tom Griffiths argues for the importance of environmental history, and gives us three reasons for the uniqueness of the environmental history of Australia.

Frawley’s essay explores oyster populations and technologies in southern Queensland in the late nineteenth century.