| Description |
2 videodiscs (approximately 42 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 notes |
| Contents |
1. Pre 1850 (23 min.) -- 2. 1850 - present day |
| Summary |
Explores the values associated with environmental sustainability and how the human relationship with nature has changed over time. In Part 1 we look back to discover how the first Australians developed sustainable living habits and farming practices, enabling them to live in unity with the barren landscape and infertile soils, through to how the early settlers attempted to change Australia into the European land they knew. In Part 2 we investigate how white settlers with a different view on nature attempted to modify Australia's landscape to suit foreign farming practices. Nature was a tough adversary, but provided the early Europeans with enough resource to grow into a nation. We discuss the creation of Australia's first national park in 1878, which forever changed future relationships with the land. Also investigated is the need to respect historical, traditional and cultural heritages of the land |
| Notes |
Program support notes available on www.VEA.com.au |
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Program support notes for part 1 by John Tatnell |
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DVD. Region unspecified |
| Subject |
Human-plant relationships -- Australia.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Fire use.
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Aboriginal Australians -- Food.
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Ecology -- Australia -- History.
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Human ecology -- Australia -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Australia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009591
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| Genre/Form |
Video recordings.
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