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3 rd November 2008 2.15 - 2.35pm Dr Stephen Bigger and Dr Robyn Cox

Landscape, nationalism and politics in Australian children's literature Presented at Landscape and Heritage - One Day Conference. 3 rd November 2008 2.15 - 2.35pm Dr Stephen Bigger and Dr Robyn Cox. Period 1 – Accounts of life (1788-1880)

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3 rd November 2008 2.15 - 2.35pm Dr Stephen Bigger and Dr Robyn Cox

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  1. Landscape, nationalism and politics in Australian children's literaturePresented at Landscape and Heritage - One Day Conference 3rd November 2008 2.15 - 2.35pm Dr Stephen Bigger and Dr Robyn Cox

  2. Period 1 – Accounts of life (1788-1880) Captain Tench (1789): A Narrative of an Expedition to Botany Bay, & A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, London, 2 volumes. Detail from Botany Bay; Sirius & Convoy going in ... 21 January 1788.from 'A Voyage to New South Wales' by William Bradley, December 1786 - May 1792, Safe 1/14

  3. Period 2 – Anthropological collectors (1880-1930) Radcliffe-Brown’s, A.R. (1926) The Rainbow-Serpent Myth of Australia. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, London, v56. BASEDOW, Herbert THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL: Adelaide, F W Preece, 1925 1st Edition. 422pp.

  4. Fenner, C., (1933) Bunyips and Billabongs. An Australian Out of Doors. Sydney: Augus and Robertson. Period 3 – The Wars and Nationalism

  5. Mowaljarlai, David (1980) When the Snake Bites the Sun: An Aboriginal Story, Sydney: Scholastics • Books written between 1978 and 1987 by Percy Trezise and Dick Roughsey • The Rainbow Serpent • The Quinkins • Banana bird and the snake men • Turramulli the Giant Quinkin • The Magic Firesticks • Gidja • Ngalculli - The Red Kangaroo • The Flying Fox Warriors • The Owl People Period 4 – Aboriginal Land Rights

  6. Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1981), Father Sky and Mother Earth. Melbourne: John Wiley & Sons.

  7. Conclusion As he looked he said: “Every place you walk, you have to have a story. So you know where you come from; and know where you are; and see where you are going.” Brody, H (2003) 'You have to have a story' - Aboriginal memory and opportunity. From http://www.opendemocracy.net/ecology/article_1098.jsp accessed 1st November 2008

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