Part 3. Science and Nation

Table of Contents

7. The platypus frontier: eggs, Aborigines and empire in 19th century Queensland

The platypus debate

Ceratodus (The Queensland Lungfish)

Gold and adventure seeking

Science and frontier life

Mr Caldwell’s travels

Scientific and settlement frontiers in tension

The telegram that closed a frontier

Postscript

References

8. Frontiers of the future: science and progress in 20th-century Australia

A hymn of the future

All this paraphernalia

The modern hayseed

The battle of Australia

Blast the bush

Australia Unlimited Ltd

A change of heart

A hapless mess of wreckage and misunderstanding

References