Docklands Survey Report

Australia’s aborigines are one of the oldest ongoing cultures in the world. Their traditions date back up tens of thousands of years. Before European settlement, there were around 600 different aboriginal nations, based on language groups. Southport was part of the territory of the Indigenous people of the Yugambeh language group. Their land stretched south from Beenleigh along the coast to the tweed and inland to the mountains. The language group was composed of a number of subgroups including the Kombumerri saltwater indigenous people of the Gold Coast.

Coastal Management in Hastings is effective economically, socially, environmentally and is sustainable for the future.

According to Beach Safe (2015) in 1836, when Colonel William Light’s ship, the Rapid, sailed into the Port Adelaide River inlet and anchored in the Gawler Reach, it entered the ecological and cultural landscape within the Tjilbruke Dreaming Track of the Kaurna Aboriginal people.

Another area currently going through urban decay and renewal is the Rhodes peninsula. The area had been associated with Sydney's industrial history since the 1900's when in 1928 Timbrol, a chemical making company, decided to relocate there. After then many more companies in a similar industry decided to move there as well. The chemical era in Rhodes had stopped by the 1980's but the land was unable to house residential apartments because of the contamination left by the chemical plants, it therefore went into decay. This left a large spot of 23ha unable to be used for any type of commercial, residential or industrial buildings. In the late 90's the area was recognised for its potential and was fully redeveloped, getting rid of any chemicals that may have been there from the factories. The result of the redevelopment has seen many more companies of a commercial type want to have offices there. This increased the interest to live in the area, which therefore made developers build many more high to mid density buildings in the

Cronulla is a beachside suburb in southern Sydney, it is located 34.0574° S, 151.1522° E which is 26 kilometres south of the Sydney CBD (see figure 2). It is governed by the Sutherland Shire Council. Cronulla’s coastal environment is on the Kurnell Peninsula, which is made up of a tombolo. A tombolo is a sand spit connecting a rocky outcrop or island to the mainland. So this forms a barrier between Botany Bay and Bate Bay. The two areas of study visited were Wanda Beach and the Greenhills Beach development.

Helensvale is located on the northern end of the Gold Coast, approximately 65km south of Brisbane. It is a nice, tranquil suburb named after a local plantation owner, Ernest White’s sister, Helena. It was around 1870 when a plantation was formed in the area by Ernest White and Arthur Robinson. And in the 1980s, it welcomed its first residents with a shopping center and secondary state schools, sports centers, and parks, making Helensvale the first integrated suburb in the backcountry border of the Gold Coast.

In 1900, Pyrmont was an important port and industrial area, with a population of almost 30 000 people. There was a wide range of industries and services present including wharves, dockyards, warehouses, abattoirs, wool stores, railway yards and even an incinerator for the disposal of Sydney’s waste. It was deemed a working-class suburb with a predominantly Irish/Catholic population. As the income for Pyrmont was only modest, semi-detached cottages were the most common type of housing present.

Melbourne extends along the Yarra River towards the Yarra Valley and the Dandenong Ranges to the east. It extends northward through the undulating bushland valleys of the Yarra's tributaries—Moonee Ponds Creek (toward Tullamarine Airport), Merri Creek, Darebin Creek and Plenty River—to the outer suburban growth corridors of Craigieburn and Whittlesea.

By 1856, much shipping activity was occurring along the wharf of Redwood City (City of Redwood City 1999, 2). As development continued, the port of Redwood City was moved further towards the Bay to its present location (City of Redwood City, 1999 3). A deep-water channel was dredged, to serve the Leslie Salt Company, the Pacific-Portland Cement Company, and the Alaska Codfish Company (City of Redwood City 1999, 3). In the 1920’s Leslie Salt Company diked off land from the Bay to be used as salt evaporation ponds (Horii 2000, 1). In the 1930’s the channel was widened, a wharf was built, and by 1937 the channel was ready to handle cargo (City of Redwood City 1999, 4). The operations at the Port were successful, and was used during WWII by the U.S. Navy for docking ships (City of Redwood City 1999, 4). By 1942, the Frank Tanning Company owned land east of the salt ponds, the U.S. 101 was built close to the shoreline, and most of the former marsh areas were contained by levees (City of Redwood City 2003,

With its glorious old sandstone buildings (which gave the area its name), The Rocks a hodgepodge of cobblestone streets dating back to the city’s settlement. Sydney's convict history can be seen in historic pubs and

WIRRAWEE COUNTY, AUSTRALIA- From the start of September, invaders from Nearby countries captured parts of Australia and fought over months. This invasion affects millions of people across the country and Wirrawee, trapping them all together in a showground. One particular night in November, the old bridge located on Lake Heron exploded, causing a great hindrance to enemies as a mode of transport. The bridge is destroyed because of how people of Wirrawee wanted to take revenge on the invaders.

Most of the Aboriginal population relocated due to disease that hit the population in the mid-19th century. However, there are still native residents living in Coogee.

Within the 1600s the dutch were the first europeans to reach australia, although in 1770 James Cook claimed australia for britain. Australia still had been distant, forty thousand years ago the first settlers had probably been citizens from southeast asia. But it was known that the first years of settlement were nearly disastrous. Supposedly the land had been cursed with spoiled soil, unfamiliar climate,

Australia was first claimed by Captain Cook in early 1770, but it wasn’t settled until 1788 when the first fleet of 11 ships arrived at Botany Bay, carrying 1,530 passengers - mostly convicts, as well as some marines and officers. They moved to Port Jackson to begin establishing a settlement. Specific prisoners were chosen for the trip, the ones with skills in building, farming and other things that would have been useful to create a “liveable” environment for the new inhabitants. The first “free” settlers only arrived in 1793, thus beginning the colonisation of New South Wales.

Since James Cooke’s possession of the entire Australian east coast in 1770, followed by the arrival of the first fleet in 1788, British perceived domination has caused momentous and historic controversy between the rightful owners of the land, the aboriginal people, and the early settlers, the British.