Description: Rivers and Resilience traces the history of Aboriginal people along Sydney's Georges River from the early periods of British and Irish settlement to the present.
Brief description: Heather Goodall grew up at Padstow near Salt Pan Creek on the Georges River and has worked closely with Aboriginal people in numerous innovative social histories. She is the author of Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in NSW, which won the NSW Premier's Prize for Australian History in 1997 and, with Isabel Flick, a senior Aboriginal activist from north-western NSW, Isabel Flick: The Many Lives of an Extraordinary Aboriginal Woman, which was awarded the Magarey Medal for Australian women's biography in 2005. Heather is co-editor of two international volumes on environmental history: Echoes from the Poisoned Well: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice (2006) and Waters, Sovereignty and Borders in Asia and Oceania (2008). She is currently Professor of History at UTS where she is researching the relations between Australia's people and environments with those around the Indian Ocean region.