... registered 53°C in 1889, while the coldest was -23°C at Charlotte Pass, in the snowfields near Mount Kosciuszko, in 1994. A unique environment When the 18th century English naturalist Joseph Banks first stepped ashore at Botany Bay, he would have felt the thrill of strangeness that succeeding generations have experienced in their first encounter with the Australian bush. Australia is a land ... ...

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... and that the land was not being utilised efficiently for agriculture. Australia was annexed under the legal tradition of settlement. At the time of settlement it was noted by Sir Joseph Banks that the land was indeed terra nullius as there was no way to communicate or negotiate with the small population of natives. Over the past century and indeed the last ... ...

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