Failure of government to properly manage the bush

With credit to the ABC the above image is taken from the introduction to its television documentary found on iView: “Can the traumatised survivors of a bushfire-ravaged coastal community seize control of their own destiny, overcome their differences, and save their town from dying?” Raising giants A recent ABC story on “desperate efforts to regenerate […]

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Alfred William Howitt – our namesake

Portrait of A W Howitt 1900 by Tom Roberts, Oil on canvas 43.2 x 35.6 cm Monash University Collection, purchased 1967. Courtesy of Monash University Museum of Art When the founders of The Howitt Society were considering a name befitting their concern for the bush, eminent Australian, Alfred William Howitt, was selected given his observations […]

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