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Susan K Martin, Emeritus Professor in English, La Trobe University

The public history, climate change present, and possible future of Australia’s botanic gardens

Botanic Gardens in Hobart, 1859. Libraries Tasmania

Can we justify maintaining water-hungry botanic gardens in an age of climate change and rising water prices?

Perhaps such gardens are no longer suited to Australia’s changing climate – if they ever were.

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