Eco online: environmental news, features and opinion from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
Environmental news from Eco online, Sunshine Coast and Queensland environmental news, with indepth sections including interviews, sustainable business, eco adventures, green living and wildlife
Vance and Nettie Palmer had much to say about the importance of naming, that is naming the country as writers and activists. In this following description of the Obi Obi Creek, Vance writes about the ‘Bon Accord’ falls. He suggests that a better name might have included some reference to Tom Petrie, the white boy who very early explored the … [Read more...]
Take a walk in August from Maroochydoore to Caloundra? Along the beach at low tide? While we no longer call it ‘tramping’, read between the lines here and it is still a fair distance to hike. When Vance and Nettie Palmer walked this southward route about ninety years ago, they encountered all kinds of creatures and plants we might not see … [Read more...]
Selected by Dr Deborah Jordan and taken from a newspaper cutting held in the Palmer Papers. This piece, Caloundra: reasons for being there was first published in the Brisbane Telegraph, 28 January 1928. Nettie Palmer was born and bred in Melbourne and alive to the differences between the Sunshine and the south. She, too, was city reared so … [Read more...]
Selected by Dr Deborah Jordan and taken from a newspaper cutting held in the Palmer Papers. The Indigenous people from the Undumbi, Nalbo, Dallambarra and Gubbi Gubbi clans have a long, long association with the Sunshine Coast. In the 1920s, when Vance and Nettie Palmer, the two significant Australian writers, were living in Caloundra, down on … [Read more...]
The following story is taken from a newspaper cutting held in the Palmer Papers. In this breezy account of a clamber up Mount Coolum, Vance Palmer, one of Australia's most significant writers of the time, opens with the Aboriginal Creation Story. Now we leave those paragraphs out, in respect to the Indigenous owners. And while Vance doesn't … [Read more...]
The Sunshine Coast was home to two gifted writers, Vance and Nettie Palmer, from 1925. In those days when few white people were exploring the bush, they were out most days, glorying in the earth and sea and sky. These were the years of their daughters growing, running free among the heath and sheoaks; the time of struggling as poets and … [Read more...]
Recent Comments