Defending The Little Desert

The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia

By: Libby Robin

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Paperback | 26 April 2024 | Edition Number 1

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The Little Desert dispute of 1968 was a watershed in Australian environmental politics, marking the beginning of a new consciousness of nature.

In 1968 Sir William McDonald, Victoria's Minister of Lands, announced a rural settlement scheme for the Little Desert in Victoria's far north-west. The conservation campaign that ensued was one of unprecedented vehemence and sophistication. It cost McDonald his parliamentary seat and consigned the Little Desert Settlement Scheme to oblivion.

The Little Desert dispute was a watershed in Australian environmental politics. Suburban activists, scientists, amateur naturalists, economists and bureaucrats banded together to oppose McDonald's ill-conceived scheme. It marked the beginning of a new consciousness of nature and the concept of `biological diversity' was voiced in the halls of parliament for the first time.

In Defending the Little Desert, Libby Robin offers a sensitive account of the unlikely coalition of forces that assembled to save the Little Desert.

This beautifully written account of the campaign, perhaps the earliest expression of ecological consciousness in Australia, will be read by all Australians interested in conservation and the environment, in participatory political processes and in 'public science'.

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Non-Fiction Politics & Government Central Government Central Government Policies Economics Environmental Economics Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning The Environment Environmentalist Conservation of The Environment Society & Culture Social Groups

Rural Communities Sociology & Anthropology Environmental Management Engineering & Technology Environmental Science Science Science in General

Introduction: The Little Desert	p. 1
The Dispute	p. 11
Crosbie Morrison's National Parks Campaign	p. 25
The Local and the Global	p. 41
The Ecologists	p. 55
A Wimmera Perspective	p. 76
The Bureaucrats	p. 90
Public Participation and New Bureaucracies	p. 113
Conservation and Environmentalism	p. 134
Notes	p. 155
Bibliography	p. 180
Index	p. 197
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