Australian Journey The Story of a Nation in 12 Objects Resources for the Journey Texts to Read | Websites to Visit Podcasts to listen to | Film and Literature Primary Sources |Defining Moments This booklet is produced by the Australian National University as a free educational resource. We gratefully acknowledge our collaboration with Monash University, the National Museum of Australia and all the cultural institutions featured in this project. Join us on an Australian Journey Australian Journey is designed for anyone, anywhere interested in Australia. Exploring the themes of Land, People, and Nation, it offers a road map to our country’s Past, Present, and Future. Australian Journey will take you the length and breadth of the continent, and across almost four billion years of history, in 12 short and engaging episodes. And every episode uses objects to reveal the stories of a nation. What do these pieces of the past tell us about their time, their purpose and their maker? Some of the objects we have chosen are famous, iconic or familiar; others obscure, even quirky. But all our objects tell a story and all find a place in the National Museum of Australia. Australian Journey is presented by Professor Bruce Scates and Dr Susan Carland. Resources for the Journey This booklet recommends a range of resources to complement each episode of Australian Journey. School teachers, international university students and the general public can use this guide to find texts, websites, podcasts, films, and literature to augment teaching and learning about the Australian nation. A collection of written, audio, internet and visual sources, this booklet will enable you to extend your knowledge of Australian history and engage further in the historical debates around the objects featured in Australian Journey. The internet sources listed here were assembled with the assistance of Jayne Regan. Dr Jayne Regan earned her PhD at Australian National University. Her field of research is twentieth-century Australian history; she is particularly interested in cultural, literary, and environmental histories. Since 2014 Jayne has worked as a research assistant on numerous history projects and is the manager of the journal Australian Literary Studies. Visit the Australian Journey website at nma.gov.au/australian-journey 2 Australian Journey Land Episode One: Travelling Country Supplement: Susan Carland in conversation with Associate Professor John Bradley and Dr Shannon Faulkhead Extend your knowledge of how landscape is seen and understood Four Texts to Read Three Websites to Visit • Simon Ryan, The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers • Monash ‘Country Lines’ Archive Saw Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University — http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/ Press, 1996) countrylines-archive/ • Ros Haynes, Seeking the Centre: The Australian • National Herbarium of Victoria Desert in Literature, Art and Film (Cambridge: — https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/science/ Cambridge University Press, 1999) herbarium-and-resources/national- • George Seddon, Landprints: Reflections on herbarium-of-victoria Place and Landscape (Cambridge: Cambridge • AIATSIS Singing the Train University Press, 1997) — https://aiatsis.gov.au/singing-train • Deborah Bird Rose, Nourishing Terrains: Aboriginal Views of Landscape and Wilderness (Canberra: Australian Heritage Commission 1996) Resources for the Journey 3 Podcasts to listen to Film and Literature • ‘A Home Among the Palm Trees’, Off Track, 8 July • Travel/non-fiction: Don Watson,The Bush: Travels 2017 in the Heart of Australia (Melbourne: Penguin, — Traces the history of the acclimatisation 2014) movement in Perth • Novel: Patrick White, Voss (Sydney: Random — http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/ House, 2012) [Originally published 1957] programs/offtrack/perth-squirrels/8668304 • Film: Picnic at Hanging Rock (Directed by Peter • ‘In the Shadow of Caterpillars’, Off Track, 5 Weir, 1975) November 2016 • Film: Walkabout (Directed by Nicholas Roeg, — Summary: In search of the Yiperenye 1971) dreamtime story. Alice Springs custodians explain how local Aboriginal culture • Film: Storm Boy (Directed by Henri Safran, 1976) is shaped by the historic red centre landscape. A Primary Source — http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/ Michael Cathcart (ed), Starvation in a Land of programs/offtrack/in-the-shadow-of-the- Plenty: Wills Diary of the Fateful Burke and Wills caterpillars/7980944 Expedition (Canberra: NLA Publishing 2013) • ‘Outbound: Landscape as Character’, The Wheeler Centre, 9 September 2015 — Summary: From Indigenous oral traditions, Links to the National Museum of to the paintings of Eugene Von Guerard, Australia’s Defining Moments Project to the books of Ethel Turner – the Australian landscape has proved a powerful • At least 52,000 years ago: Archaeological and enduring presence in our national evidence of first peoples on the Australian storytelling. But parts of our vast and continent diverse landscape are changing. Do the — http://www.nma.gov.au/online_features/ sweeping plains and ragged mountain defining_moments/featured/evidence_of_ ranges beloved of Dorothea Mackellar still first_peoples inspire Australians and inform our sense of • 1801-03: Matthew Flinders circumnavigates nation? continent, which he names ‘Australia’ — https://www.wheelercentre.com/ — http://www.nma.gov.au/online_features/ broadcasts/podcasts/the-wheeler-centre/ defining_moments/featured/flinders- outbound-landscape-as-character circumnavigates-australia • 1813: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains — http://www.nma.gov.au/online_features/ defining_moments/featured/blue_ mountains • 1879: Australia’s first national park created — http://www.nma.gov.au/online_features/ defining_moments/featured/first_national_ park 4 Australian Journey Episode Two: Land of the Weird and Monstrous Supplement: Susan Carland in conversation with Ms Kathyrn Medlock and Dr George Main Extend your knowledge of Australia’s extinction events Four Texts to Read Three Websites to Visit • Tim Bonyhady, The Colonial Earth (Melbourne: • Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery Melbourne University Press, 2000) — http://www.tmag.tas.gov.au/ • Carol Freeman, Paper Tiger: How Pictures • Australian Museum, ‘Australia’s Extinct Animals’ Shaped the Thylacine (Hobart: Forty South — https://australianmuseum.net.au/ Publishing 2014) australias-extinct-animals • Tom Griffiths,Hunters and Collectors: The • Night Parrot Stories Antiquarian Imagination in Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996) — http://nightparrotstories.com/ • Robert Paddle, The Last Tasmanian Tiger: The History and Extinction of the Thylacine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) Resources for the Journey 5 Podcasts to listen to Film and Literature • ‘Episode 5, Dr Mark Eldridge’, AMplify, Australian • Non-fiction: Nicholas Shakespeare,In Tasmania Museum, 26 April 2016 (Sydney: Random House, 1994) — Summary: This week on AMplify, Executive • Film: The Hunter (Directed by Daniel Nettheim, Director and CEO Kim McKay hears that 2001) “extreme intervention” will be required to save Australian mammals from extinction. — https://australianmuseum.net.au/ A Primary Source blogpost/at-the-museum/amplify-episode- • Tim Flannery (ed), The Explorers (Melbourne: Text, 5-dr-mark-eldridge 1998) • ‘Australia’s Extinction Crisis’, Late Night Live, 19 November 2012 Links to the National Museum of — Summary: In the latest Quarterly Essay, Tim Flannery investigates Australia’s efforts Australia’s Defining Moments Project to protect its endangered species from • 1936: Tasmania’s thylacine becomes extinct extinction and comes away dismayed at — http://www.nma.gov.au/online_features/ the haphazard and ineffectual efforts that defining_moments/featured/extinction_of_ have been made so far. thylacine — http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/ programs/latenightlive/the-next-wave-of- • About 5,000 years ago: Arrival of the dingo, extinctions/4367246 Australia’s first domesticated species — http://www.nma.gov.au/online_features/ • ‘Darwin was Bored, Truffle Sniffing Bettongs and defining_moments/featured/arrival_of_ Poking Through Owl Spittle’, Off Track, 19 March the_dingo 2016 — Summary: Three very different stories from three very different parts of Australia, ranging from a place that Charles Darwin thought was incredibly boring right through to dating extinctions by sorting through owl regurgitate. — http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/ programs/offtrack/darwin-was-bored,- truffle-sniffing-bettongs-and-poking- through/7254832 6 Australian Journey Episode Three: A Wide Brown Land Supplement: Susan Carland in conversation with Dr Ruth Morgan Extend your knowledge of the fraught politics of water in Australia Four Texts to Read Three Websites to Visit • Bill Gammage, The Biggest Estate on Earth: How • Australian Screen, ‘Snowy Hydro’ Aborigines Made Australia (Sydney: Allen and — https://aso.gov.au/titles/collections/ Unwin 2012) snowy-hydro-collection/ • Ruth Morgan, Running Out: Water in Western • Murray Darling Basin Authority Australia (Perth: UWA Press, 2015) — https://www.mdba.gov.au/ • Michael McKernan, Drought: The Red Marauder • SEARCH: South Eastern Australian Recent Climate (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2005) History • Bruce Scates and Melanie Oppenheimer, — http://climatehistory.com.au/ ‘Droughts and Flooding Rains’, in Bruce Scates and Melanie Oppenheimer, The Last Battle: Soldier Settlement in Australia, 1916-1939 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016) Resources for the Journey 7 Podcasts to listen to • Poem: Henry