A couple of important environmental history papers in Inside Story, the online journal of ‘current affairs and culture from Australia and beyond’:

Tom Griffiths reflects on the tensions between science and sovereignty in Thus Began the Australian Occupation of Antarctica.

Tom’s Antarctic blog is also online with lots of great pictures.

In ‘Preserved for the People for All Time’, Cameron Muir asks if ‘balance’ is the best principle for inland rivers and recounts stories from the Macquarie Marshes in 1944 to the present Murray-Darling Basin.

Alessandro Antonello has reviewed the National Archives of Australia travelling exhibition ‘Traversing Antarctica’ in the latest issue of reCollections.