Living with natural disasters

Of ragged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains. "My Country" by Dorothea Mackellar

Liza Dale-Hallett Senior Curator, Sustainable Futures, Museums Victoria

Michael Cathcart Lecturer, Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne

Small Object Big Story: a guide and range of tools to facilitate research and presentation.

Natural Disasters in Museums Victoria Collections: research the theme of natural disasters in Museums Victoria’s collections online to discover related images, objects, documents and more.

Black Saturday Gallery: the 2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission established this gallery to connect with the community.

Floods through fire: digital storytelling project by Lyndall Code at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image.

Going going still here: Digital storytelling project by Gary Hammer at the Australian Centre of the Moving Image.

Extract from 1956 Flood: Culture Victoria presents a film that explores the impact of the 1956 floods along the Murray and Darling Rivers.

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