Dubbo: Dubbed the mining new hub
Central New South Wales is home to many things; a world-famous zoo, sprawling agricultural land and fantastic wine country.
And now, there's mining.
The region has exploded with new mining exploration projects and local councils and development organisations are making moves to harness the developments and make itself a new hub for the industry.
In conjunction with the University of New South Wales, Dubbo is in the process of establishing a multi-million dollar specialist school to train people to work in the mining industry that is taking off in the region. Dubbed the Centre for Sustainable Mining Practices, it is the "brainchild" of University of NSW's David Laurence, according to Gabrielle Cusack, chief executive officer of the Orana branch of Regional Development Australia.
Laurence's vision looks set to become a reality, with $5 million already spent on the proposals to create the centre, which will include classrooms, workshops and a 360 degree virtual reality experience of a mine.
"In order to get the facility established with everything, all the bells and whistles, is about a $22 million endeavour," Cusack told Australian Mining .
UNSW's school of Mining and Engineering already boasts two of the theatres, which allow students and visitors to understand what life can be like inside a mine.
Laurence told Australian Mining the facility will provide experiences for Dubbo which have previously only been available in metropolitan areas.
"It's a low socioeconomic area so this will have new things to offer," he said.
"It's a diverse area, it is recorded that there are disadvantaged groups in Dubbo, but the opportunity to bring them into the workforce can be provided by the different training and education.
"It will help bridge the gap and get them ready for mining and related industries."
Dubbo, with a population of over 41 000 people, seemed the obvious location for the mining school, with its central location and ease of access.
Mayor Alan Smith told Australian Mining the region continues to go from strength to strength and has welcomed the explosion of the resources industry in the city.
"From a local perspective we see it as a very important part of the future for Dubbo and this region.
"If you look at most of the growth in mining activity that's taking place in New South Wales, if you come to Dubbo and then put a string three hours long and then drew a circle around Dubbo, nearly all the new development in mining fits within that circle.
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They brought with them no women, and although some married European or Aboriginal women, their families always lived in the Ghantowns and rarely mixed in Australian society. Camels were singularly superior to horses and bullocks in the dry centre,
Aboriginal peoples used, and still use, other parts of the Saskatoon bush as well. The leaves and fruit are dried and used to make tea. The wood of the bush itself is heavy and flexible and useful in arrows and other tools, basket frames and
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The suffering of the European Explorers who trekked through the hostile Red Centre of Australia has been well documented. The centre of Australia is a place of violent extremes. Charles Sturt and his men marched into one of the most appalling summers ever recorded. Temperatures rose to 132 degrees in the shade and 157 degrees in the sun. The hot wind filled the air with an impalpable dust and all the vegetation seemed dead. The men’s hair ceased to grow and their finger nails became as brittle as glass. Scurvy broke out in the camp and one man died. The desert assumed a menacing aspect as waterholes evaporated in front of their eyes. The flies and mosquitoes were so bad that the men wore veils but these had little effect.
To deal with such ailments, Aboriginal people used a range of remedies – wild herbs, animal products, steam baths, clay pits, charcoal and mud, massages, string amulets and secret chants and ceremonies. Crushed bulbs of the Onion Lily were used as a wash for infected skin
Some of these remedies had no empirical basis, but it is clear from the accounts of colonists that they worked. Many of the remedies worked by healing directly through their chemical or physical action. Aromatic herbs, tannin-rich inner barks and kinos have well documented therapeutic effects.
Other plants undoubtedly harboured alkaloids or other compounds with healing effects. Aboriginal remedies varied between clans and in different parts of the country. There was no single set of Aboriginal medicines and remedies, just as there was no one Aboriginal language. Unfortunately, much of the knowledge of traditional Aboriginal medicine has been lost.
Very little is known of medical practice in southern and eastern Australia, where traditional Aboriginal culture was largely obliterated more than a century ago. In recent years there have
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The camel tree (Bardirri) is used for bush medicine. You burn the outside bark in a fire and rub the ashes in your hands. Put it on your body to keep yourself cool.
Snakebite was treated in some areas by a poultice from a coolibah tree (the coolibah of ‘Waltzing Matilda’ fame – Eucalyptus microtheca). Also used for this purpose plus fomentation for bites of stingrays, spiders etc. were the leaves of a native convolvulus Ipomoea pes-carpae.
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