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Environmental Transformation in Port Phillip: Evolution or Revolution?

Explore the radical shift in land use and the evolution from communal to private property in Port Phillip District post-1788. Uncover the ignored environmental approach in frontier history and the interplay of culture and nature in shaping landscapes. Discover the revolutionary changes in land use and the underpinning ideas driving this transformation.

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Environmental Transformation in Port Phillip: Evolution or Revolution?

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  1. Environmental History and the Port Phillip District Richard Broome

  2. Australian History revolutionary? • ‘Revolution’ = • a) Overthrow of govt • b) Complete change • Post 1788 changes • Communal to private property • Reciprocity to Market economy • Radical shift-land use • ‘Collins Street’ by William Macnight NLA ►

  3. Why Has Frontier History Ignored the Environmental approach? • Early histories Social Darwinist • First Aboriginal histories - focus on violence • New themes of Aboriginal agency emerge • Environmental history begins, but focus on settlers • ◄Night Attack Samuel Calvert, NLA

  4. Land and Landscape • Landscape as constructed [Seddon] • As deep and mythical [Scharma] • As a cultural place • ‘Cultural landscapes’: constructed, changing, remembered, identity shaping • Nature shapes culture [Rappaporte] • An Interdependence

  5. The Great Tradition • Culture emerges from human interactions from the land and land-use • An inspired imagining of creation & human relationships creates dreamings • William Barak traditional painting, SLV▼

  6. The Pastoral Revolution • The Great Transformation..’ Agora no 4 2013 • Case of Robertson at ‘Wando Vale’ • Lin Onus ‘Ground Lice’ (1990)Qlzand Art Gallery►

  7. Ideas Underpinning the Revolution in Land Use • Dominion Over Nature – Book of Genesis • Idea of Progress • Neolithic prejudices- Esau and Jacob • Nature as Unlimited • Settler theory of value

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