The Bendigo Creek Story
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2015
- This film traces the history of the Bendigo creek to explore the the savage environmental impact of mining on the local environment of the Bendigo goldfields.
Video directed and written by Gerry Gill
Produced by Daz Media
Copyright Gerry Gill, 2013
This film forms part of the Mapping Great Change story on the Culture Victoria website:
www.cv.vic.gov.au/stories/land...
Vale, Gerry Gill. Such a passionate and thoughtful, eloquent historian, who managed to bring much of our regional history to life through interesting perspectives.
Thank you for this.
Great quality production. Thankyou for sharing this and we'll done you must have invested a lot of time in researching all that is presented within. Great job thankyou. Cheers! 👍
it dosnt go above 240p lol
Terrific, thoughtful video clip with much historical information that should be known by all Bendigonians. I grew up not far from the creek at White Hills. It was our playground. Thanks for making it. Jack
I love the peppercorn trees, but I am a bendigoian.
Inspiring video. It’s terrible at the time the miners ravaged the land that there was nothing in place to restore the vegetation at the time. I think there was much ignorance and more greed. Thank goodness that the future generations are thinking ahead and are are more into sustainability. Great documentary 👍🏼
The miners were not the only ones who "ravaged' the land as you put it. The video begins by informing us of the well know practice of back burning along the creek by the Australian native people, who using thousands of years of knowledge of the land, used natural sustainability practices such as that. There was no vegetation along the creek for some meters in all directions due to this, as evidenced by historic drawings. A need for timber (for building), charcoal for industry and later ecualyptus harvesting for associated products, collectively contributed to the "ravages" in the Bendigo region during that period. As for ignorance and greed, the Australian native peoples knowledge of the land and their practices (including stripping the land) is far more superior than most learned men today. So yes, there was and still is much ignorance and not just about land management and sustainability. As for greed, you need to have a better grasp of that historical period and the backgrounds of those greedy miners. Many left modest jobs in Melbourne (and overseas) for a chance to make a better life for their families and to be a self made man - only otherwise available to those from the upper class who had an education. Many of those who were on the gold fields were in fact living in poverty and some for meagre wages sent there by wealthy business men in Melbourne who didn't like living in mud up to their arm pits and contracting disease from those living in these tent cities. It was not greed that drove the miners but sheer desperation to survive and establish a living or a better standard of living, just like men do today but only they were faced in a new developing colony with its own unique problems that made going in search of gold a risky venture. Promise yes, but also great risk and hardship. The celebrated regional city of Bendigo with its stunning architectural delights and its commercial success, were all attributed directly to those miners/mining. It's just too bad that Australian history is not a compulsory subject taught in Australian schools. That might go some way to remove the implied ignorance in your comment. It is nothing more than romantic foolishness to think that men and women of European, Nth American and Asian decent thrown into the Australian bush would not recreate their understanding of life and simply give it up to be one with the land and understand it like our native people. Similarly, it is foolishness to think that environmental sustainability (in its true sense) rules out economic viability of a population and commerciality to tip the scales in favour of locking up large masses of land and excluding various different community interest groups right to access, utilise and enjoy the same to support and sustain all people. Yes, there is still much ignorance and the unbalanced emotive green sustainability narrative is skewed to keep many that way. Here is a more balanced view of mining and the role it played and continues to play in Australian history. Despite the saying that Australia rode to glory on the back of sheep, it is probably more accurate to say that it did so on the blood sweat and lives lost of miners ruclips.net/video/jdBYd2znr2g/видео.html
Thank you for sharing the knowledge. Very very interesting.
Back creek runs from Spring Gully. Separate to Bendigo Creek.
Thanks for disturbing my education