Exploitation

Trees

Trees are found in most Queensland landscapes.

The coal miners

The coal miners

by Eric MacKenzie

They shuffle out, darkened by need,

a minstrel show of faces, fake.

Location

Australia

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19 October 2010

Rodney Hall (ed), Poems from prison, St Lucia, UQP, 1973

Australia

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Coal

Queensland is the world’s third biggest coal exporter.

Mount Isa, single men's accommodation, 1932. Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland

Collection of John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland image API-094-0001-0093

Mount Perry. From W. Blaikie, Views of Bundaberg, no date. University of Queensland Collection

Mount Morgan, 1890-93. Photographs (Richardson Collection), Fryer Library, University of Queensland Collection.

Mining

Mining has dramatically altered the Queensland landscape.

Cadastral map, miners homestead leases at Mount Shamrock, 1926

Mount Shamrock, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1926

18 October 2010

Location

Mount Shamrock, QLD

Australia

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18 October 2010

Collection of Geraldine Mate

Cadastral map, miners homestead leases at Mount Shamrock, 1926. Land surveyors carefully depicted the boundaries of properties and roadways, often masking variations in the actual layout of a town. At Mount Shamrock, the mapping of leases was an important step as it was part of administrative acknowledgement of the existence of a town that had in fact been present for almost 30 years. Collection of Geraldine Mate.

Geological sketch map Mount Shamrock, 1901

Mount Shamrock, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1901

18 October 2010

Location

Mount Shamrock, QLD

Australia

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18 October 2010

Collection of Geraldine Mate

Geological sketch map Mount Shamrock, 1901. Geologist Lionel Ball saw the landscape of Mount Shamrock in a very different way to the occupants of the town. His view was based on the geological and topographical features of the area, highlighting distinct intrusions into the country rock and mapping only the built structures associated with the resources. Collection of Geraldine Mate.

Mud map of Mount Shamrock, identifying residents c1904

Mount Shamrock, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1904

18 October 2010

Location

Mount Shamrock, QLD

Australia

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18 October 2010

Collection of Geraldine Mate

Mud map of Mount Shamrock, identifying residents c1904. For residents of Mount Shamrock, their everyday landscape was associated with the people who lived there. This remembered landscape depicts the relative location of families, businesses and places (such as the mine, the school and the cemetery), rather than the more structured map of the town lots. In this map places and people are conflated – changes through time and actual distances are unimportant. Collection of Geraldine Mate.