You will find more interesting information on attitudes to the environment in the following Australia’s Defining Moments Digital Classroom resources:

• 1859 ‘They all ran wild’ — Rabbits introduced
• 1900 — Bubonic plague arrives in Australia
• 1935 Unstoppable, devastating pests — Cane toads introduced
• 1936 Benjamin, the last thylacine — Extinction of thylacine
• 1954 Australia in the ‘atomic age’ — Rum Jungle uranium mine opens