Beyond the north-south culture wars [electronic resource] : reconciling northern Australia's recent past with its future / Allan Dale.
2014
DU395
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Beyond the north-south culture wars [electronic resource] : reconciling northern Australia's recent past with its future / Allan Dale.
Author
Dale, Allan, author.
ISBN
9783319055978 electronic book
3319055976 electronic book
9783319055961
3319055968
3319055976 electronic book
9783319055961
3319055968
Published
Cham : Springer, [2014]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
DU395
Dewey Decimal Classification
994.29
Summary
Increasingly, Australia's agriculturalists are looking to the nation's north to escape the decline in southern Australia's water and soil resources. Booming mineral and gas development is also helping to drive the nation's economic success. At the same time, the south's conservation sector would like to see much of the north preserved as iconic wilderness. Both conservation and resource development interests alike are often at odds with the interests of the north's traditional owners, many of whom remain trapped in welfare dependency and poverty. Indeed, to the ire of north Australians, the past four decades of north Australian history have indeed been characterized by these national-scale conflicts being played out in regional and local communities. This book explores these conflicts as well as the many emerging opportunities facing the development of the north, suggesting that a strong cultural divide between northern and southern Australia exists; one that needs to be reconciled if the nation as a whole is to benefit from northern development. The author first explores where these historical conflicts could take us without a clear forward agenda. A story-based personal narrative from my long and diverse experience in the north gives life to these themes. Finally, the book then draws on these stories to help shape a cohesive agenda for the north's future.
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed May 7, 2014).
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SpringerBriefs in geography.
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