Sludge by Peter Davies and Susan Lawrence Margaret Simons On Bunyah tells a story

On Bunyah tells a story of rural Australia in verse and photographs

Correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 79

And what about our own sacred story (the progressive one) that we have sold for the sake of the Americanisation of our own society

' Geoffrey Blainey

Sludge by Peter Davies and Susan Lawrence Margaret Simons On Bunyah tells a storySludge The fascinating, troubling legacy of the gold rush Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste: sludge. Sludge submerged Victorias best grapevines near Bendigo, filled Laanecoorie Reservoir