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landscape

How do you think of the landscape in aesthetic terms when it is primarily defined in terms of economic value?

John Perceval, Ocean Beach Sorrento, 1957

Since European settlement the settlers have been attempting to make sense of the land on the Australian continent:

Arthur Boyd

They have done so with a Eurocentric reading and interpretation of the landscape. In the semi-arid western districts of NSW or Victoria they rapidly exceeded the carrying capacity of the land.

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