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A few random stock photos. Burleigh Heads in 1957 – it begins.

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Byron Main Beach, 1967.

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Belongil.

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Tallows.

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Typical beachfront view - from Central Queensland to Victoria . . .

Sand Mining – a promo newsreel - sheesh

31 March 23


Australia’s beaches got heavily mined for minerals throughout the 1960s and ’70s across the length of our long East Coast. The legacy is still there in dunes forever reshaped, and in the invasive bitou bush imported from South Africa for the replanting, to replace our “poor” native vegetation in an ecological fuck up to rival the introduction of the cane toad.

This newsreel video selling the whole concept to the public was dug up from the British Pathé website by Ian Lording, who adds:

“Mining companies eh. They've been honing the craft of spin for decades. Love the old beachfront homes at Crescent Head though. If only they knew.” Ian.

“Australia Finds Value In Sand - Valuable Minerals Discovered Under Windswept Beaches” 

 WATCH IT HERE



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