GOVT2614 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jack Mundey, Myles And Milo Dunphy, Blue Mountains National Park
26 Jul 2018
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Organisational responses: early national parks: dunphy and the colong foundation, australian conservation foundation, tasmanian wilderness foundation, forests, campaigns, and the power of wilderness, radical faces: jabiluka, blockades, parliamentary options. Myles dunphy & national parks: bush walker, founding walker clubs, then national parks and primitive areas council, the colong foundation and early environmental campaigns, greater blue mountains national park. Australian conservation foundation: begun in 1964 to provide scientific advice to government", first patron - former menzies attorney general & chief. Justice sir garfield barwick: initial closed leadership forced open by members, focus on research, education and lobbying, working with government, always close to govt, arguable closest in period 1983-96 (hawke/keating, development of landcare (with nff) Acf notables: peter garrett president 89-93, 98-04, hc nuggett coombs president 78-79, prof ian lowe president 05-14, jack mundey acf councillor, geoff cousins president 15, philip toyne executive director 86-92.
