I started reading Jackson’s Track on the flight back to Ireland from Australia last month and I’ve just finished it. The one good thing about long flights is that you get reading time. Not so easy to get when I’m back on the farm and at my desk. Jackson’s Track is a true life tale [...]
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On my last day at Hervey Bay I was told by neighbours of my mother that the population of the area is forecast to double in the next decade. It made me appreciate that at least the Fraser Coast Regional Council has placed a certain level of importance on the foreshore trees and the protection [...]
There are four mature mango trees in the garden of the old weatherboard house that my father rebuilt. My father passed away five years ago. The house and the trees remain. Mango trees are prolific in their production of the sweet, juicy fruit and when they are heavy with ripe fruit, the fruit bats would [...]
About twenty years ago my parents moved from Eden, New South Wales up to the tropical north east of Australia to Hervey Bay. I’ve been coming here every year since then and I’m here now. While I haven’t explored the area that much, having only a bicycle to get around on, I have explored the [...]
We have inherited these denuded landscapes. We live amongst them and think it’s normal. We have also inherited the very questions that were asked by our ancestors and some of us approach forests in the same manner as people did 200 years and more ago. The slash and burn/clearfell approach. We’re still asking questions of [...]
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