Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal People on Sydney's Georges River
by Heather Goodall and Allison Cadzow
UNSW Press, 2009.
Short listed for NSW Premier's Prize in Community History, 2010.
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'Rivers and Resilience will become a model for tracing the history of urban Aboriginal communities. ... This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Indigenous Australian and urban history'. Professor Clive Moore, University of Queensland, Australian Journal of Indigenous Education, Vol 39, 2010.

The Gold and Silver website: exploring the changing relationships of Vietnamese Australians with their environments in Australia and Vietnam. By Allison Cadzow and Heather Goodall, in partnership with the Migration Heritage Centre.
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2011: Denis Byrne, Heather Goodall, Allison Cadzow: Place-Making in national parks: a case study of park-use by Arabic Australians and Vietnamese Australians on the Georges River, NSW, DECCW. Online publication COMING in SEPTEMBER

2011: Allison Cadzow, Denis Byrne, Heather Goodall: Waterborne: Vietnamese Australians on Sydney’s Georges River and its parklands, UTS ePress. Online publication COMING in SEPTEMBER

2011: Heather Goodall, Denis Byrne, Allison Cadzow: Rivers of belonging: Arabic Australians on Sydney’s Georges River and its parklands, UTS ePress. Online publication COMING in SEPTEMBER

2010: Heather Goodall: ‘Nets, Backyards and the Bush: the clashing cultures of nature on the Georges River’ in The Natural History of Sydney, edited by Daniel Lunney, Pat Hutchings and Dieter Hochuli, Royal Zoological Society of NSW, Mosman, pp.35-43.

2010: Heather Goodall and Allison Cadzow: ‘The People’s National Park: working class environmental campaigns on Sydney’s urban Georges River, 1950 to 1967’. In Red, Green and In-between, special issue of Labour History, Vol 99, pp 17-35. [Download PDF]

2010: Heather Goodall, Allison Cadzow, Denis Byrne: ‘Mangroves, garbage and fishing: everyday ecology on an industrial city river’, in Cities Nature Justice, Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol 5, no. 1, pp 52-83. [Download PDF]

2010: Allison Cadzow, Heather Goodall, Denis Byrne: ‘Waterborne: Vietnamese Australians and River Environments’ in Cities Nature Justice, Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol 5, no. 1, pp 112-142. [Download PDF]

2009: Heather Goodall and Allison Cadzow: Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal people on Sydney’s Georges River, UNSW Press (Short listed NSW Premier’s Prize, 2010) » More information

2009: Goodall, H., Cadzow, A., Byrne, D. and Wearing, S., ‘Fishing the Georges River: cultural diversity and urban environments’ in Everyday Multiculturalism, edited by Amanda Wise and Selvaraj Velayutham, Palgrave, London, pp 177-196. A longer version of this paper, 'Fishing the Georges River: claims and relationships through nature in a multicultural city', is here: [Download PDF]

2008: Heather Goodall & Allison Cadzow: ‘Salt Pan Creek: rivers as borders zones within the colonial city’ in Devleena Ghosh and Heather Goodall (eds) Fresh and Salt: water, borders and sovereignty in Asia and Oceania, Routledge, London, pp 189-209 [PDF COMING SOON]

2008: ‘Riding the Tide: Indigenous knowledge, history and water in a changing Australia’ in Environment and History, vol 14(2008): 355-84. [Download PDF]

2008: Stephen Wearing, Heather Goodall, Denis Byrne, Jo Kijas ‘Cultural diversity in the social valuing of parkland: Networking communities and park management’ Australasian Parks and Leisure, Number 2, winter, pp 20-30.

2008: Sarah Brown, Steve Dovers, Jodi Frawley, Andrea Gaynor, Heather Goodall, Grace Karskens and Steve Mullins, 'Can Environmental History Save the World?', in History Australia, April 2008, Vol. 5, No. 1: Pages 3.1-3.24

2006: Goodall, H: ‘Frankenstein, Triffids and Mangroves: anxiety and changing urban ecologies’ in Australian Folklore, 21, pp 82-98

2006: Byrne, D., Goodall, H., Wearing, S., Cadzow, A., 'Enchanted Parklands', Australian Geographer, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 103-115 [Download PDF]

2006: Goodall, H, Wearing, S, Byrne, D. and Cadzow, A: ‘Making the city green: the creation of public greenspace in suburban Sydney, 1940 - 1992', State of Australia’s Cities 2005, Brisbane, Conference Papers [Download PDF]

2004: Goodall, H., Byrne, D., Wearing, S., Kijas, J., ‘Recognising cultural diversity: the Georges River project in south-western Sydney’, in Sustainability and Social Science, edited by Cheney, H, Katz, E. and Solomon, F,CSIRO, 2004. [Download PDF]

2006: PRESS: Alexander, H., 'River bank spins tales of the spirit', Sydney Morning Herald, October 18, 2006, pp. 6. [Download PDF]

2006: PRESS: Carlin, Amanda, 'River parks are for everyone', St George and Sutherland Shire Leader, October 31 2006, p13. [Download PDF]

2006: Cadzow, A., Goodall, H., Byrne, D. and Wearing, S. Waterborne: Vietnamese Australians memories of place in Vietnam and Sydney, IOHA Conference, Dancing with Memory, UTS.

2006: Goodall, H., Rewriting Green History, Ideas in Action, Social Inquiry Seminar Series, UTS.

2006: Goodall, H., Gender, Race and Public Space, Sanctuary and Security, Seminar Series, UTS.

2006: Goodall, H., Challenging Urban Green Myths: the social and political dimensions of urban conservation work, Faculties of Humanities and Management, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

2005: Goodall, H., Wearing, S., Byrne, D., Cadzow, A., ‘Bushland in the city: natural or unnatural?’, Speakers Corner, The Domain, Botanic Gardens Trust lunchtime talks series.

2005: Byrne, D., Goodall, H., Wearing, S., Cadzow, A., ‘Enchanted Places in the suburbs: seeing the Georges River’, Applied Natures Workshop, GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Studies, University of Wollongong.

2004: Goodall, H., D. Byrne, J. Kijas, Cultural diversity in the social valuing of parkland: Networking communities and park management, ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education) Conference, Networking & Partnerships in destination development & management, Naples, p. 120, ATLAS, Arnhem, Netherlands.

2004: Wearing, S., Goodall, H., Ethnic Park Use, NSW Regional Council Seminar: The future of Recreation in Australia, Parks and Leisure Australia, Penrith Leagues Club, Penrith.

2004: Wearing, S., Goodall, H., Cultural diversity in the social valuing of parkland: Networking communities and park management, 8th World Leisure Congress, “Leisure Matters", Brisbane.

2004: Wearing, S., Goodall, H., Byrne, D., Cultural diversity in the social valuing of parkland: Networking communities and park management, Leisure Matters, 8th World Leisure Congress, Brisbane, Australia.

The Gold and Silver site produced by the Parklands team, DEC and Migration Heritage centre explores Vietnamese migration and relationships with environments in Vietnam and Sydney through personal stories.

This site contains useful information on cycle tracks and walks along the Georges River, part of the Great Kaima way.

This site provides information on how to get to Georges River National park, facilities available, and opening hours.

This map gives an overview of the the Georges River catchment area.