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Title: John Busst: Bohemian artist & saviour of reef & rainforest
Author: MCCALMAN IAIN
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/06/2024
Imprint: NEW SOUTH WALES UNI PRESS
Price: $36.99
Publishing status: NOT YET PUBLISHED
A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Büsst.
Award-winning historian Iain McCalman reveals the little-known story of influential Australian conservationist, John Büsst. Known to his enemies as The Bingal Bay Bastard , Büsst, a Bendigo-born Melbourne bohemian artist, transformed into a brilliant conservationist who, in the 1960s and early 70s, led campaigns to protect two of Australia s most important and endangered environments. The first saved Australia s endangered lowland rainforests and led to the subsequent UNESCO World Heritage Listing of our Wet Tropics Rainforest Area. The second stopped Premier Joh Bjelke-Petersen s attempt to mine 80 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef for oil, gas and limestone fertiliser. A plan Büsst likened to bulldozing the Taj Mahal to make road gravel . Instead, the victory led to the UNESCO World Heritage Listing of the Great Barrier Reef as the most important marine system in the world . Sadly, both face renewed threat today.
ISBN: 9781761170096
Dimension: 210mm X 135mm
Edition: 01