Imagine…
…you have left the country of your birth where life was hard and the future bleak, taking a chance on a new life on the other side of the world, in the new colony of South Australia. It is 1836 and you have arrived in an alien environment, but one which promises rewards for hard work. In just a few decades you witness land clearance on a large scale, the worst drought ever recorded and devastating bushfires.
But the new farms are productive and you prosper. The rapidly growing population is taking its toll on the land and water, but you have your own concerns and are unaware of the impact at first. Over the years, your enjoyable hunting trips into the hills become less eventful; you realise that it has been a long time since you saw a kangaroo close to town, and the little blue birds have disappeared. To brighten up the impoverished landscape you help form an Acclimatisation Society to import British plants and birds.
After a time you decide that using the Torrens for sewerage and tannery may have been a mistake – the smell is overpowering.
These changes occurred in just a few decades during the foundation of our present City of Adelaide. Most of us have probably taken the benefits for granted. But there has been a cost…
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