Digital resources tagged with ‘natural resources’

Attitudes to Water

Fresh water is going to become an expensive and diminishing resource. Are we water wasters?

Cane Cutters and Mateship

A group of men get together in a pub and form a cane - cutting gang. Five million tons of sugarcane have to be cut by hand in back breaking conditions in North Queensland.

Death of a Workman In A Streeton Painting

Streeton's eyewitness account of the death of a workman during the blasting of a railway tunnel at Lapstone in the NSW Blue Mountains. It becomes the inspiration for his painting "Fire's on, Lapstone Tunnel".

Gold Rush in the West

Gold, more than any other single factor, transformed the Australian colonies.

O'Connor's Dream for Water

In 1890 C. Y. O'Connor was recruited to work as Chief Engineer in the newly self-governing colony of Western Australia, where he formed a dynamic partnership with the colony's larger-than-life Premier, John Forrest.

Rebuilding Bougainville

A man from the rugged mountains of Papua New Guinea's Bougainville single-handedly set up a mini power station in his village.

Recycling Water Towoomba

Is recycled water an option for the future?

Snowy Mountains Scheme

An estimated 100,000 people worked on the Scheme between 1949 and 1974, the year of its completion. Two-thirds of the them were immigrants from over 40 countries around the world. They changed the face of Australian society.

The West and Federation

Some sort of federation of the Australian colonies had been suggested as early as 1846. Ferocious political struggles over the shape of the new nation continued to the eleventh hour.

Toowoomba - The Politics of Recycling Water

The majority opinion is entitled to respect - in 2007, the referendum to use recycled in Toowoomba is defeated.

Water Allocation

Jondaryan Shire Mayor Peter Taylor explains water allocation in his dry Queensland region.

Water Regulation

With our harsh Australian climate subject to drought, artesian water and ground water is a resource that needs regulation.

Water Tanks

What are the practicalities and economics of water tanks in sustaining the supply of water?