Heather Goodall

University of Technology Sydney | UTS · School of Communication

While violence directed at Indian students in Australian cities has been highlighted in the Indian and Australian press, far less attention has been paid to the violence directed at Indians in rural areas. This has most often involved Indians employed in contract labour in seasonal industries like fruit or vegetable picking. This article reviews va...

Marine protected areas (MPAs), are being vigorously pursued globally but meeting significant resistance at a local level. Despite this, there is limited research into the factors that drive this resistance.The Port Stephens–Great Lakes Marine Park (PSGLMP) and Batemans Marine Park (BMP), both situated in New South Wales (NSW) Australia, were establ...

Mass media is a key tool by which environmental interventions, such as Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are communicated to the public. The way in which local news outlets present and explain MPAs to local communities is likely to be influential in determining how they respond to the proposal. In particular the tendency of news media to focus on areas...

A study of the way Arab and Vietnamese migrants engage with a national park environment in southwest Sydney, Australia, has highlighted the agency of these people as they not merely adapt to that environment but actively make places for themselves in it. The concept of placemaking is useful particularly in showing that ‘place’ can be constructed ou...

The movement of exotic biota into native ecosystems are central to debates about the acclimatisation of plants in the settler colonies of the nineteenth century. For example, plants like lucerne from Europe and sudan grass from South Africa were transferred to Australia to support pastoral economies. The saltbush Atriplex spp. is an anomaly-it too,...

This article focuses on the friendship between two maritime workers and unionists – Tuk Subianto from Indonesia and Eliot V. Elliott from Australia – initially forged during the struggles in Australia against Dutch and British colonialism in Indonesia in 1945. Their communication into the 1960s was largely possible through their shared involvement...

Addressing social and economic considerations is crucial to the success of Marine Protected Area (MPA) planning and management. Ineffective social assessment can alienate local communities and undermine the success of existing and future MPAs. It is rare to critique the success of methods used currently to incorporate social and economic considerat...

At the end of World War 2, there were high hopes across the Indian Ocean for a new world in which the relationships between working people would mean more than the borders which separated them. This paper will explore the fate of the hopes for new worlds, in the decades after 1945, by following the uneven relationships among working class Australia...

The prevailing narrative of official and academic environmental histories has been that campaigns to protect native bushland and establish national parks were initiated by middle-class advocates of distant wildernesses. Yet in the 1950s in south western Sydney, working-class activists on the Georges River were demanding conservation for native bush...

Vietnamese Australians who arrived in Australia as refugees since the 1970s and later as migrants, have developed complex relationships of remembering, knowing and belonging to environments in Vietnam and Sydney. Water was a frequent point of reference in our interviews with Vietnamese people in Sydney, and their relationships with water are used i...

A discussion of the ideas and the workshop which generated these articles, dialogues and opinions.

Post war problems of rising urban, industrial pollution and intractable waste disposal are usually considered as technical and economic problems only, solutions to which were led by experts at State level, and filtered into Australia from the ferments occurring in the United States and Britain in the 1960s and 70s. This paper investigates the chang...

Two events involving Indians in Australia have grabbed news headlines at different times. One was the 1945 campaign supporting Indonesian Independence in which Indian seamen – known then in Australia as “lascars” – played a high profile role for which they have seldom been acknowledged. The more recent has been the 2009 series of violent attacks on...

Fishing is the most popular recreation in Australia but there are many different ways in which Australians have fished. Here are just a few extracts from interviews with people who live near and use the Georges River, a large tidal river in Sydney’s suburban south-west.1 They suggest the diverse skills and knowledge on the river, but also the curre...

Indigenous people's knowledge of their environments, often called Traditional Environmental Knowledge [TEK], is widely invoked today in many arenas of environmental analysis and natural resource management as a potential source of beneficial approaches to sustainability. Indigenous knowledge is most often discussed in this literature and practice a...

In September 1945 a boycott of Dutch shipping in Australian waters was called in support of the Indonesian declaration of independence at the end of World War II. Inspired by the Atlantic Charter, a new decolonised world seemed possible. It was working people of Australia, Indonesia and India who co-operated in the boycott and attempt to win freedo...

As a ‘genre of history’ in Australia environmental history is relatively new, emerging in the 1960s and 70s from encounters between history, geography and the natural sciences in the context of growing environmental concern and activism. Interdisciplinary in orientation, the field also exhibited an unusually high level of engagement with current en...

Relationships between South Asians and Australians during the colonial period have been little investigated. Closer attention to the dramatically expanded sea trade after 1850 and the relatively uncontrolled movement of people, ideas and goods which occurred on them, despite claims of imperial regulation, suggests that significant numbers of Indian...

The recognition that natural resources and their processes support human society underpins the notion of sustainability. Key players that are engaged with balancing natural resource protection and use include: Catchment Management Authorities (CMAs); local, state and federal regulators; resource managers and policy-makers; and industrial, agricultu...

Building on Sand brought together scholars with high profile roles as public intellectuals whose work is engaged in three very different geographic areas: Australia, Israel/Palestine and India/Pakistan. Each of these, as the conjoined names of two suggest, are sites of conflict over the nature of the civil and social authority which holds power and...

What is the religious or spiritual significance of the Australian natural environment to non-Indigenous Australians? This question is asked in relation to the parklands along the Georges River, in south-western Sydney, and some of the ethnic groups who live in the 'social catchment' of these parklands. The post-Reformation rationalist Christianity...

which the city was built. We know this from the survivors of those communities who have continued to live in Sydney. We know too from the ways in which those traditional owners inscribed the places which related them to the waters. They engraved designs and figures onto the rocks of the headlands, they amassed huge middens with the bounty of genera...

"The debates around conservation and social justice are urgent, as Rangarajan and Shahabuddin (this issue) demonstrates, but these debates have not followed the same course in different countries. The histories of protected areas and people in countries other than India highlight differences as well as similarities. This response considers the ques...

Public historians work with the explosive content of contested histories when they research collaboratively at community level, where class, cultural, and racial divides intersect. The naïve optimism of the 1970s, which held that oral history methodologies would allow a transparent and unmediated path for minority voices to be heard, has been right...

The concept of ‘sharing histories’ has been a key goal of the Australian Reconciliation process. It involves a widespread popular concept of history as a collection of facts, to which previously excluded voices can be simply added‐in to make the collection more comprehensive. This article indicates differences between Indigenous and non‐Indigenous...

After long campaigns demanding recognition of traditional land rights, Aboriginal people have regained control over some properties, but in circumstances that are greatly changed from pre-invasion conditions. Much of this newly acquired land is in rangeland areas, where the environmental degradation arising from pastoralism has lowered land values,...

‘Angledool Stories’ is an ongoing collaboration in public history between an academic and a community historian in a rural Australian indigenous community. The goal has been to investigate whether interactive multi-media offered a means to make oral history recordings, family photos and research materials more accessible to the communities within w...

Parks are places in which people can come together as families and communities to share enriching events and build deep bonds between each other and with the place itself. In Australia active citizenship is intimately related to the use of communal and public spaces—their definition, regulation and design. Parklands are envisaged as nodal points of...

The creation of greenspace in cities is often spoken of as if it were the result of orderly planning or regulation. Sydney did have a plan to conserve greenspace on the urban fringe but the 1948 Cumberland County Planning Scheme carried little real power to implement this goal in the face of population growth and expansion which was far higher than...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 1982. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [424]-444.). Microfiche. s