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Flood

Country

AN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY OF THE MURRAY-DARLING BASIN

Emily OGorman
University of Wollongong

Emily OGorman 2012

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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry

OGorman, Emily.

Flood country: an environmental history of the Murray-Darling basin/by Emily OGorman.

9780643101586 (pbk.)

9780643106659 (epdf)

9780643106666 (epub)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Floodplain management Darling River (Qld. and N.S.W.)

Floodplain management Murray River (N.S.W.S. Aust.)

Wetland management Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.)

Wetland management Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.S. Aust.)

Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) Environmental
aspects.

Darling River Watershed (Qld. and N.S.W.) History.

Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.-S. Aust.) Environmental
aspects.

Murray River Watershed (N.S.W.S. Aust.) History.

333.73160994

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Front cover and title page:

WC Piguenit

The flood in the Darling 1890, 1895

oil on canvas 122.5 x 199.3 cm

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Purchased 1895

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Contents

Acknowledgements

Many people have helped to bring this book to publication. I would like to thank all those from CSIRO Publishing who have been involved in its production. Flood Country is based on my doctoral research, which I undertook in the School of History at The Australian National University. It was an inspiring place to be a postgraduate student, and the insights offered by staff, students, and visitors of the School have carried through to this book. I am lucky to have had Tom Griffiths as a PhD supervisor and mentor. Through example and advice, he has encouraged an attentiveness to sources, environments and places, and to the different voices of history within them. Our conversations about ways of telling stories in environmental history have been important influences on this book. The advice of Libby Robin, Nicholas Brown and Joe Powell was also central to how this research developed, and I am deeply grateful to them.

The final stages of researching and writing this book were completed at the Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research (AUSCCER) at the University of Wollongong during a postdoctoral candidacy funded through the Australian Research Council (FL0992397). My colleagues there have given me important time and support during this period. I would particularly like to thank Lesley Head who encouraged me to continue this project at the Centre.

Other people who have helped this book along, through comments on various presentations of research and chapter drafts as well as through conversations, are: Brit Andresen, James Beattie, Denis Byrne, Jane Carruthers, Kirsty Douglas, Brian Finlayson, Don Garden, Leah Gibbs, Geoff Ginn, Heather Goodall, Tim Hasted, Barry Higman, John Jansen, David Jenkins, Darrell Lewis, Cameron Muir, Eric Pawson, Stephen Pyne, Tiffany Shellam, Frances Steel, Gerry van Dooren, Thom van Dooren, Clare Wallace, the members of the Ecological Humanities Group, and members of the Science and Justice Group at the University of California Santa Cruz. Many people gave generously of their time during research trips to study particular places and in subsequent conversations. I would especially like to thank Harry Edwards and the late Allan Tannock and Ted Lawton.

During the course of researching and writing this book two American university departments hosted me for short but important periods: the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University and the History of Consciousness Program at the University of California Santa Cruz. This work was published with the assistance of grants from the Australian Academy of the Humanities and The Australian National University.

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Conversions

This book uses the measurements quoted in primary sources, except where conversions to contemporary (metric) units have been necessary for comparison or clarity.

Imperial to metric

1 acre = 0.405 hectares

1 inch = 25.4 millimetres

1 foot = 30.5 centimetres

1 yard = 0.914 metres

1 mile = 1.61 kilometres

1 pound = 0.45 kilograms

1 acre foot = 0.123 hectare metres

(Acre feet and hectare metres are units of volume, i.e. acre = area, feet = depth)

1 imperial gallon = 4.55 litres

1 US gallon = 3.79 litres

1 short ton = 0.907 metric tonnes

Other measurements

1 cusec = 28.35 litres per second

1 megalitre = 1 000 000 litres

Abbreviations and terminology

ABC	Australian Broadcasting Commission
ADB	Australian Dictionary of Biography

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