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Plunging Down Under, Ian Smith
Plunging Down Under, Ian Smith
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Plunging Down Under
Hard Data, Soft Data, Louise Boscacci
Hard Data, Soft Data, Louise Boscacci
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Hard Data, Soft Data
Poetry Of Roe 8, Nandi Chinna
Poetry Of Roe 8, Nandi Chinna
Landscapes: the Journal of the International Centre for Landscape and Language
Poetry of Roe 8
The occasion for the writing of these poems was activism surrounding the controversial highway known as the Roe 8 extension in the areas of Cockburn and Fremantle in Western Australia. Planned in the 1950s, Roe 8 is contentious for a number of reasons, including extraordinary political deals over funding, undue process regarding environmental reporting, lack of a business case, inadequate noise and traffic modelling, erasure of Indigenous heritage sites, and clearing of the sensitive Beeliar wetlands and Coolbellup banksia woodlands which were designated a Threatened Ecological Community in 2016. During the summer of 2016/2017 contractors started …