Sludge by Peter Davies and Susan Lawrence Margaret Simons Does it have a future

Does it have a future

Lachlan Harris

Stanner on the Great Australian Silence and Anne Summers on Manzone Country

writing for others or purely for self-expression

Sludge by Peter Davies and Susan Lawrence Margaret Simons Does it have a futureSludge The fascinating, troubling legacy of the gold rush Everyone knows gold made Victoria rich. But did you know gold mining was disastrous for the land, engulfing it in floods of sand, gravel and silt that gushed out of the mines? Or that this environmental devastation still affects our rivers and floodplains? Victorians had a name for this mining waste: sludge. Sludge submerged Victorias best grapevines near Bendigo, filled Laanecoorie Reservoir