Kangaroos and tanks: histories of militarised landscapes in Australia

Military operations can have repercussions for environments and
landscapes a long way from the battlefields. In the case of
Australia most military action during the 20th century happened
far from its shores, apart from the incidental bombing by the
Japanese of Darwin and a few other northern coastal towns during
World War II. It is therefore surprising that an Australian
historian, Ben Wilkie, Honorary Research Fellow in Australian
Studies at Deakin University, researches the environmental
histories of military conflict. This edition of the podcast
explores some of these histories of militarized landscapes in
Australia, and the evolution of Australian Defence Force
environmental policies in the twentieth century with Ben Wilkie.


Music Credits


"Battlefield Taikos" by rocavaco; "Too Small to Sweat" by
Stefan Kartenberg. Tracks available from ccMixter