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Authors: Germaine Greer
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The author has a great many people to thank for the help, support, encouragement and advice she has been given over the twelve years since she encountered the forest at Natural Bridge. Some of their names might not appear in the list that follows, but this doesn’t mean that she has forgotten them, but rather that she has never known their surnames.
She thanks first of all, the redoubtable CCRRS workforce, especially Garry Mills, Will Miller, Simon Valadares, Luke and Rachael Morphett, Michelle and Barry Walsh, Ben Yaun and Mitchell Philp, also Bronwen Mark and Andrew Campbell; Ann Polis, and her daughter Mary Polis, for being so ready to give whatever help and support they could, Mary particularly for legal advice which Friends of Gondwana Rainforest could not have afforded otherwise; Professor Paul McHugh and Andrew Hardwick for coming on board as trustees at what turned out to be a very difficult time, and for weathering the storm of refashioning the charity; Nick Diss FCA of Reardon and Co. and Robert Meakin PhD of Stone King LLP for sorting out the muddle; Stephen Bligh and Andrew Swarbrick for listening to her anguished queries and steering her towards a solution; Eddie Stern of C. Hoare and Co. and Lucy Zheng of National Australia Bank for their prudent oversight; Brian Bayne and Tim Green for offering to act as directors of Djurebil Pty Ltd; Lynne and Duncan Turpie for helping her to find Brian and Tim; Lui Weber and Rob Price both for their astonishing depth of knowledge of the CCRRS rainforest and their willingness to share it; Christopher Spain BSc (Hons), now principal ecologist at Biodiversity Assessment and Management, for his work on the Cave Creek macadamias, and Dr Conrad Hoskin of James Cook University, for showing her some of the rarer fauna. Her debt to David Jinks should be obvious and she is very aware of the interest taken in the project by Dr Bill McDonald, and the friendliness of such rainforest heroes as Nan and Hugh Nicholson and Gwen Harden; for sharing expertise and supplying CCRRS with plants, Charlie and Cathy Booth at Bush Nuts Native Nursery, Tallebudgera Valley, Kris and Kim Kupsch of Ooray Orchards, Burringbar, and Lance, Sally and Matt Fitzgerald and Dave Woodlee at Burringbar Rainforest Nursery; for advice and assistance in selection of potting media, Tony Mullan and everyone at Green Fingers.
The author’s thanks also go to the staff of the many libraries, archives and museums where she has foraged for information about the Numinbah Valley, its flora and fauna, and its human history. These include the National Library of Australia, the State Library of New South Wales, the Queensland State Archives, the Cambridge University Library, the Library of the University of Queensland, the National Archives (UK), the British Library, the Gold Coast City Library, the Tweed Heads Historical Society, the Richmond-Tweed Regional Library, Lismore, the Tweed River Historical Society, Murwillumbah, Murwillumbah Historical Society Inc., and in particular the Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies for expert help sensitively and discreetly given. Other archivists and scholars have given her help anonymously through websites and databases; her debt to them is obvious. Every day she has occasion to bless the International Plant Name Index, the Australian Plant Name Index, The Plant List, Tropicos and Botanicus. She also thanks Dr Mark Nesbitt of the Economic Botany Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for help generously given on the occasion of her visit to the collection. Special thanks go to Brian and Margaret Palmer who introduced her to the conservation work going on in Northland NZ, and to John and Catherine Hawley of Maranui Conservation Ltd who took the time and trouble to familiarise her with the Gondwanan rainforest of the Brynderwyns-Bream Tail area.
Her sister Alida Jane Burke, and her husband Peter have let her drone on about the forest for hours without complaint; her brother Barry and his family have shown an abiding confidence in the value of the project even when she was wavering. Professor Jenny Morton has done her considerable best to turn the author into a scientist. The author’s surrogate Fink family, especially Leon and Margaret, and Hannah Fink and her husband Andrew Shapiro, have helped her in every imaginable way. Don and Janet Holt were charming and hospitable hosts at Delmore Downs. Erwin and Adrienne Weber have served the cause of sustainability much longer than she has, and she values their example and advice. Judy Diamond and Kerry Broome have been good mates and have kept a watching brief at Cave Creek.
Above all, she thanks the denizens of the Cave Creek rainforest, vegetable and animal; their lust for life is what has transformed her uncertain efforts to rebuild the forest into a triumph over the forces of depletion. This it is that makes her dare to hope that it is not too late to save this most enchanting of small planets.
Germaine Greer is an Australian academic and journalist, and a major feminist voice of the mid-twentieth century. She gained her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1967. She is Professor Emerita of English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. Greer’s ideas have created controversy ever since
The Female Eunuch
became an international bestseller in 1970. She is the author of many other books including
Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility
(1984);
The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause
(1991);
The Whole Woman
(1999) and
Shakespeare’s Wife
(2007).
The Female Eunuch
The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and their Work
Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility
The Change: Women, Ageing and the Menopause
Daddy, We Hardly Knew You
Slip-shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet