Based on Tim Flannery's 'Quarterly Essay'; environmental/historical essay which advocates a fall back to the humanistic traditions of Watkin Tench that allowed the recognition of Aboriginal Australians who had learnt a good deal about the land they lived in.

Includes: Groundswell : correspondence / Graham Richardson, Jack Waterford, Greg Barnes & John Cherry, Brian Coman, William J. Lines, Ian Lowe, Paul Rodgers, George Seddon ; Paradise betrayed : corrspondence / Gareth Evans & Sidney Jones, John Martinkus (response).

Bibliography: pages 72-73.
[Variant title:Paradise betrayed: West Papua's struggle for independence.]
[Variant title:Groundswell: the rise of the Greens.]