... because we humans can only work for a future we can imagine.

One of the virtual 'skins' from Imagine The Future Inc's re-interpretation of a traditional Kulin possum skin cloak created by Csaba Szamosy from images contributed by project partners, Painting the future real, 1996.

[2002 version and the accompanying story Arrival of sheep and cattle to the plain.]

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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The following images were used in this digital composite about the pastoral industry on the basalt plain:


Cattle believed to be en route to the Angliss Meatworks in the early twentieth century. This photograph was contributed to the project by Melbourne's Living Museum of the West.


An early photograph of pastoral workers on the Chirnside property, Werribee Park, outside their canvas accommodation. This photograph is from the Wood Collection (no. CN89-130) and was contributed to the project by Parks Victoria which now manages the Werribee Park mansion and grounds for the people of Victoria. Documentation exists of at least one massacre of Kulin by men such as these associated with the early pastoral industry at Werribee.


An early pastoral scene photographed at Werribee Park. This image is from the State Library of Victoria's Hood collection and was contributed by Parks Victoria with the Library's permission.


Sheep behind a post and rail fence at Werribee Park. This image is from the State Library of Victoria's Hood collection and was contributed to the project by Parks Victoria with the State Library's permission. Note the eucalypts killed by ring-barking on the far left, and the already cleared paddock on the right.

[Page history: created and first published on www.ecoversity.org.au as part of Painting the future real (1995-97), the prototype for Redreaming the plain (1998-2002); taken off-line in 1998 and re-posted in a slightly modified form in July 2004 as a web archive. For more information contact redreaming@rmit.edu.au.]