Self Improvement: Floods on the Hawkesbury

Self Improvement: Floods on the Hawkesbury

Author: ABC April 28, 2021 Duration: 14:37
Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury-Nepean River, west of Sydney, has the longest recorded flood history in modern Australia. Written records go back to 1795, but Aboriginal people also told Governor King about floods before that. Your teacher is Professor Grace Karskens from the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales, looking at how "flood-mindedness" in the area has evolved over centuries.

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