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	Historical Encyclopedia of WA - WA Snapshots
		When demand diminished the property was sold to Alcoa Australia, and after a period of uncertainty was leased in the 1990s to local charitable group Fairbridge WA, which operates educational and community activities focussed on youth, heritage and environment.
		The hunting of the European red fox (which had spread from eastern Australia to Eucla on the state border by 1911) and the rabbit, was for the purpose of pest control as well as recreation.
		It emerged in Australia in the 1970s, appearing in WA in the mid-1980s, in response to the women's movement and to profound changes in gender relations.
	www.encyclopedia.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /wa_snapshots (9972 words)

	AAS-Biographical memoirs-Michael Pitman
		The family’s financial situation became difficult and by the time the second son was born, the family had moved to cramped quarters over the shop in Bedminster.
		Michael brought her 1932 recipe for 20 puddings to Australia, and when he was Professor of Biology at Sydney University he made small puddings for his staff in the Pitman family tradition.
		This tragedy added increased financial pressure on the family and during the long vacations that were not taken up by field trips, Michael worked in a diversity of jobs including in a bakery and as a technician in the pathology department of a local hospital.
	www.science.org.au /academy/memoirs/pitman2.htm (7756 words)

	Books/Reports - Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Here was a missed opportunity to help educate aquatic gardeners by separately listing the non-natives, discussing the consequences of using invasive non-natives which might well escape their outdoor aquatic gardens, and suggesting native alternatives to the use of non-natives in outdoor areas large and small.
		It includes introductory writeups about families and genera, and short descriptions and more than 1,500 excellent (though smallish) color photos of 1,400 species of tropical and subtropical flowering trees, shrubs, vines and herbaceous plants of the world.
		From the Flora of Australia Supplementary Series, this book is an identification manual for more than 300 species of the seasonally inundated coastal floodplains (including the billabongs and lagoons) of the Top End of the Northern Territory.
	aquat1.ifas.ufl.edu /books.html (14201 words)

	Recent Acquisitions List 91
		The price, which includes postage to anywhere in Australia, is the UK retail price of 125 pounds converted to Australian dollars at the rate of exchange at the time of cataloguing.
		Loosely inserted is an autograph note signed by the historian John Playford, accompanying a duplicate corrected typescript of his highly critical nine-page article on 'Burke's Colonial Gentry' prepared for the 1989 edition of 'Debrett's Handbook of Australia'.
		A composite photograph of the Premiers of South Australia; an original albumen paper print (515 x 325 mm) with an oval portrait (80 x 60 mm) of each of the 20 premiers from Boyle Travers Finniss (from 24 October 1856) to Charles Cameron Kingston (from 16 June 1893).
	www.treloars.com /catalogues/r91.htm (9661 words)

	UWA Press - Recent and forthcoming titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		They tell of the tragic loss of children, partners, parents and siblings, and relate the difficulties and struggles experienced as well as the profound pain and despair that may be encountered in grief.
		The collection is illustrated with Laurel’s striking woodcuts and etchings, which, together with a selection of photographs, complement the warm and affectionate humour of her narrative.
		Based on over 100 interviews with members of families who still form extensive networks across the continent, this book is part family stories, part historical narrative, creating a new way of looking at Australia’s past.
	www.uwapress.uwa.edu.au /titles/new (613 words)

	★ Reviews of books about new zealand
		Although the development of rodeos in Australia received some of their inspiration from the American experience, Australia also has a strong bush culture of its own to lean upon.
		Both the US and Australia have a similar history of pioneers and frontier life, explorers, gold-rushes, and the human wealth brought by immigrants from across the world.
		Over five hundred photographs are accompanied by very informative narratives which convey the rich and varied history of migration to this land where four in ten persons today are either born overseas or from foreign born parents.
	new_zealand.vacationbookreview.com /new_zealand_28.html (1559 words)

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