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Ideas, Environmental Policy and Australian National Identity

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Australian national identity owes much to the struggle between mostly European immigrant settlers - and the natural Australian environment. The settler Australians encounter with the natural elements, has produced such national icons as the “Aussie battler”, mateship, the legend of the farmer, and the “she’ll be right” attitude; stemming from the brutality of the Australian land and seascapes. Settler Australians knew that they are here today, but due to drought, flood, bushfire or cyclone, might be gone tomorrow. How have these images of national identity affected the ways in which Australian governments have administered environment and resource use in Australia over the past 230 years? As Australia has always been a country of ecological extremes, is the rhetoric of Australian settler values keeping the nation from seeing the environmental truth of climate change? How can Australia overcome these entrenched ideas to seriously consider Alter/Native environmental and resource policies? Using public policy theories, this paper will analyse which paradigms and ideas pervade present environmental policy and resource governance in Australia. Australia needs to recognise how its environmental policies have developed in order to find new ‘hybrid’ cultural solutions for the Anthropocene to deal with problems of sustainability, biodiversity loss and climate change.
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hal-02457630 , version 1 (28-01-2020)

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Reia Farrall-Anquet. Ideas, Environmental Policy and Australian National Identity. Alter/Native Spaces, European Association for Studies of Australia, Sep 2019, Toulon, France. ⟨hal-02457630⟩
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