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Lilian Pearce

Lilian Pearce is a Kyneton-based researcher and writer, working mostly in the fields of geography and environmental history. She is a part-time research fellow on the Australian Research Council project Owning Nature: Mapping the contested country of private protected areas (University of Tasmania and RMIT). Publications from her doctoral thesis Critical Histories for Ecological Restoration received the 2016 Mike Smith Award (National Museum of Australia) and the Ken Inglis Postgraduate Prize (Australian Historical Association). 

Lilian Pearce reviews 'Mallee Country: Land, people, history' by Richard Broome et al.

December 2019, no. 417 22 November 2019
Mallees contradict the green pompom-on-a-stick notion of treeness. The word ‘mallee’ stems from the Wemba Wemba word ‘mali’ for a form of eucalyptus tree; one with a shrubby habit with a multi-stemmed trunk branching out from a lignotuber (a woody life-support system at or below the ground). Highly adapted to challenging environments, more than 400 species of the genus Eucalyptus are consi ... (read more)