What We Can Learn from Lake Condah about Sustainable Living (original) (raw)

2005

Abstract

Given that Lake Condah has recently been declared a National Heritage site and is also going for World Heritage status, I've been asked to write about why I think the area is of great significance regionally, nationally and internationally. I answer that question as an archaeologist who has also researched the environmental and social history of south-west Victoria. I trust I can convince you that this is a rather special place and that we all have much to learn from it. For me, the story begins when the European settlers first moved into this part of the continent in the 1830s and 1840s. That was a time of enormous loss for the indigenous people who had evolved a relationship with their environment that resulted in sustainable land management practices. The arrival of the settlers would change everything for them, the Gunditjmara, in a period that became as tumultuous and destructive as the Mt Eccles volcanic eruption that had occurred 30,000 years previously.

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