Biography

Building Tasmania's hydroelectric power system was one of the largest and most ambitious engineering undertakings in the state's history, carried out over nearly a century in some of the most remote and difficult terrain in the country. Ticklebelly Tales tells that story through the people who actually did the work — the construction workers, engineers and families who lived in the temporary townships built around the dam and power station sites, often in genuinely harsh conditions, from 1910 through to 2006.

The autobiography of Bill Mollison — the Tasmanian who co-developed permaculture in the 1970s alongside David Holmgren, and whose Permaculture: A Designers' Manual became one of the most influential environmental design books of the 20th century.