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As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at odds with forms and cultures of urban water use. Cities in a Sunburnt Country is the first comparative study of the provision, use, and social impact of water and water infrastructure in Australia's five largest cities. Drawing on environmental, urban, and economic history, this co-authored book challenges widely held assumptions, both in Australia and around the world, about water management, consumption, and sustainability. From the 'living water' of Aboriginal cultures to the rise of networked water infrastructure, the book invites us to take a long view of how water has shaped our cities, and how urban water systems and cultures might weather a warming world.

Cover -- Author biography -- Title page -- Imprint page -- Contents -- Introduction: A Meandering River -- The Brisbane River Catchment: Map and Facts -- Chapter 1: Encountering the Floodplain -- Chapter 2: Mighty Outbreak of Nature's Forces: The 1893 Floods -- Chapter 3: Taming the River -- Chapter 4: Encroaching on the Floodplain -- Chapter 5: The River Prevails: The 1974 Flood -- Chapter 6: Dam Dependency -- Chapter 7: The Untameable Torrent: The 2011 Flood -- Chapter 8: Flood Management with Hindsight -- Conclusion: Floods Will Come Again -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Sources -- Notes -- Index.

This paper draws on letters published weekly in 'Uncle Sam's Corner', in Rockhampton's Morning Bulletin and Central Queensland Herald between 1915 and 1918 to explore the role of journalists in disseminating popular narratives during the First World War. Through the children's own words their understanding of unfolding events is exposed as is the role of journalist 'Uncle Sam' in shaping children's wartime responses. Using his adjoining children's corner and the responses given to the children's letters, Uncle Sam inculcates the values of duty, service and sacrifice; the qualities demanded of the Empire's civilians in wartime to aid military success. An examination of a specific children's column reveals how media can overtly manipulate public perceptions to shape dominant societal narratives and highlights how children unwittingly participate in wartime propaganda.

John Baillie Henderson, Queensland Government Hydraulic Engineer (1883–1914), influenced the development of hydrology in south-east Queensland by successfully combining state imperatives with an understanding of the local environment. Science became entwined with nation-building where the applied nature of hydrological engineering fostered development and addressed local concerns in a region characterised by drought and flood. Henderson, as part of a global scientific community, appreciated the importance of local climatic variation and substantially increased hydrological knowledge in Queensland at the turn of the twentieth century.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Ch 1. "Best forgotten": Black Saturday's difficult stories -- Ch 2. "A bit more respect for nature": Migrant Voices in bushfire environments -- Ch 3. "I mean they build a memorial for people who die in war and it was like a warzone" -- Ch 4. "Shaken but not stirred": the aftermath of disasters -- Ch 5. Deluges, Crocodiles and Water Scarcity -- Ch 6. Rise and Fall of a Disaster Policy: Black Saturday and Prescribed Burning Targets -- Ch 7. Decolonising settler hazardscapes of the Waipa: Māori and Pākehā remembering of flooding and fires in the Waikato 1900-1950 -- Ch 8. An unnatural disaster: When disaster histories broach a heated subject Conclusion: The Future of Disaster Histories.

AbstractThis article uses expectation gap theory to explore news coverage of the leadership performance of a national political leader in a major bushfire disaster in Australia. It does so to identify the types of behaviors and leadership that leader enacted and embodied during these events and what fire‐affected communities expected that politician to do in that disaster. Using a case study approach to the Black Summer bushfires that occurred in Australia in late 2019 and early 2020, it highlights the way Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison engaged with affected individuals and communities during and after that disaster. We draw on news media coverage as the disaster unfolded and in the months that followed to analyze his leadership and what others expected of him in those events. We find that in this disaster there was a significant gap between the Australian Prime Minister's leadership and community expectations of that leadership. Our article highlights how the expectation gap played out in news coverage of the fires and why the expectation gap matters.

"As Australian cities face uncertain water futures, what insights can the history of Aboriginal and settler relationships with water yield? Residents have come to expect reliable, safe, and cheap water, but natural limits and the costs of maintaining and expanding water networks are at odds with forms and cultures of urban water use. Cities in a Sunburnt Country is the first comparative study of the provision, use, and social impact of water and water infrastructure in Australia's five largest cities. Drawing on environmental, urban, and economic history, this co-authored book challenges widely held assumptions, both in Australia and around the world, about water management, consumption, and sustainability. From the 'living water' of Aboriginal cultures to the rise of networked water infrastructure, the book invites us to take a long view of how water has shaped our cities, and how urban water systems and cultures might weather a warming world"--