Topics: Environment
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South Coastal - view
The farm was abandoned by 1880 due, local geographer, Robert Haworth believes, to a slight rise in sea levels which made the soil too saline
South Coastal - view
Pam remembers gathering oysters, all gone now, “stripped”, and getting fish from local fishermen
South West - view
Aboriginal science, unlike Western science, has always highlighted the importance of connections
South Coastal - view
Lomandra
1789 - North West - view
yams in “greatest plenty” on the marshy banks
1804 - South Coastal - view
England
1804 - North Coastal - view
An increase in number of conflicts when the “maize was ripe”. Farming has largely prevented access to the river for food gathering for the Aboriginal people. Many are starving. The Koori view of life is that food is there to be gathered, in one’s own country, and the ripe corn has replaced the wild daisy yams that have grown on the river banks. Many farmers use Aboriginal labour to help them gather crops but fail to pay them adequately for their work. If Koori people cross farmers’ land they are liable to be shot at. Governor King hears testimony from three Koori men that if they can retain certain places on the lower Hawkesbury, they will be satisfied and not in trouble the farmers. King rashly assures them that no more settlements will be made lower down the Hawkesbury – north-coastal country. ( Historical Records of New South Wales , vol 5, p. 513)
1809 - South Coastal - view
Land
1810 - North Coastal - view
Koori
diets are already affected by the scarcity of fish in the harbour. To
compensate, people are beginning to use European foodstuff.
1810 - South Coastal - view
Cowpastures
1814 - South Coastal - view
rivers
1814 - South West - view
time of drought
1816 - North Coastal - view
Five
more areas are set out as agriculture reserves for Aboriginal people. These
people are to receive seed, tools, stores and clothes and are given convicts
for six months to help with cultivation.
1816 - South Coastal - view
land
1816 - South Coastal - view
land
1820s - North Coastal - view
Northern
Sydney clans are in decline due to dispossession of their land and removal of
their access to the food traditionally gathered by the sea. The Koori birth
rate decreases. Paintings of the period show Koori people with grog bottles and
fighting, existing on charity in the streets of Sydney. Alcohol has tragic
consequences in illness and mortality
1820 - South Coastal - view
river