Author: Sue Rosen
An Environmental History of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment
This work presents a history of environmental change in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system and its catchment since 1788. It is essentially history and that story is one of appropriation, occupation and land use and abuse that has a correlation with accelerating environmental decline and degradation.
An almost universal theme of the many chroniclers of the British invasion was the lands capacity for 'improvement' and they surveyed all that they saw with this in mind. Inspired by a belief in the capability of reason to dominate nature the men of the "age of science" were on a mission to create an existence in which nature would serve their needs. It was an environment, however, of which they had minimal understanding and which unbeknownst to them had been maintained in a sustainable balance by Aboriginal people using practises that had been evolving for at least 40 000 years.
Authors: Mr Reuben and Mrs Gwen Brown with Dr Sue Rosen Client: The Stockland Group A family history/biography workshopped with Reuben and Gwen. Sue Rosen supported them in the writing process…
Clients: Mrs Caroline Simpson and Mr James Fairfax AO Author: Sue Rosen The ten year plus investigation of the origins of Experiment Farm Cottage and the life of…
Editor/ Compilers: Ms Emma Dortins and Ms Rosemary Kerr Client: Dr Sid French This project entailed the design and production of George French's biography for distribution to the family.…
Author: Emma Dortins This short history is a tribute to the efforts of all the volunteers involved throughout the library’s life of more than half a century. With interest and guidance from…
Author: Sue Rosen We Never Had a Hotbed of Crime! Life in Twentieth Century South Sydney is one of the outcomes of the South Sydney Social History Project, which…
Author: Mary Sparke The work of Sydney Home Nursing Service has become an important component of Community Health Care Services in twenty-first century Sydney. This, in itself, provides a…
Author: Sue Rosen Client: Mrs Caroline Simpson Government House Parramatta 1788-2000, A History of the Governors, their Home and its Domain, Parramatta Park, 2003 is the outcome of research commissioned…
Authors: Recher, H.F., Hutchins, P.A. and Rosen, S., ‘Human Settlement of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment: Impact on the biota’, in Dr. J.M. Powell (ed.), The…
Author: Sue Rosen Bankstown: A sense of identity explores how an area came to be the place it is today: culturally, economically and physically. It's a book to be…
Author: Sue Rosen An Environmental History of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment This work presents a history of environmental change in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River system and its catchment since 1788.…
Author: Dr Sue Rosen Garrawarra Hospital was established as a centre for the aged and chronically ill in 1958. Formerly Garrawarra served as a tuberculosis treatment facility and was known as…