Inventing Australia: Images and Identity 1688–1980: 3 (Australian Experience)

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Polyvalent snake antivenom A snake antivenom capable of acting against the poison from most Australian snakes was developed by CSIRO. There is no point in asking whether one version of this essential Australia is truer than another because they are all intellectual constructs, neat, tidy, comprehensible—and necessarily false. They might be concerned that they will come across as not knowing what they are talking about when asked questions on the spot," Wynn said. The result was that many of our best and brightest left and many of our inventions ended up on foreign soil and eventually sold back to us.

Bodyguard power protector Gerard Industries developed a power point with an inbuilt electronic circuit that cuts the power if there is a power leakage and virtually eliminates the chance of electric shock.On the other hand, it's been easy for education agents to counsel students to give the right answers," he said.

Inventing Australia sets out to find the answers by tracing the images we have used to describe our land and our people – the convict hell, the workingman’s paradise, the Bush legend, the “typical” Australian from the shearer to the Bondi lifesaver, the land of opportunity, the small rich industrial country, the multicultural society.

White noted that “at a time when women were making advances in politics and education, they were largely excluded from the newly professional artistic community of the 1890s. Those forms of work confounded earlier attempts to define 'unemployment' and are again unsettling our contemporary understandings of joblessness. Rowcar Rotary Club members designed a small four-wheeled vehicle, with hand propulsion and steering, to give mobility to disabled and incapacitated children. Biodegradable marine degreaser The world' s first biodegradable marine degreaser, made from naturally-occurring marine oils, was developed by the CSIRO and Beku Environmental Products Ltd. Pop top can Sir Ian McLennan of BHP came up with the idea of press-buttons where the button is hinged to the can and does not cause a litter problem.