This page introduces a range of lesson and training materials of a post-secondary and adult-education level.
Public administration and governance in Queensland.
Local Government Councillor’s Handbook, New South Wales.
An Introduction to Norfolk Island, compiled by retired geographer Ian Bowie, for presentation to a University of the Third Age audience at Bowral, New South Wales.
He has written to the Society: “My current interest in the island was ignited by a visit in 2020 in a group commemorating the loss of HMS Sirius and has led to lots of red herrings; the catalyst for the earlier revival of interest in the Pacific was lectures and excursions led by Terry Hunt during a cruise through the Marquesas on Aranui III in 2015…the [elderly] Kiwis on board had been taught a different story in their primary schools about Polynesian diffusion across the Pacific. A few were aware of more recent archaeological and anthropological interpretations but none knew of, for example, the findings of Wilmshurst, Hunt et al in High-precision radiocarbon dating shows recent and rapid initial human colonization of East Polynesia (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1015876108).
An Introduction to Norfolk Island
Introduction to the Norfolk presentations
1. Much ado about very little
2. Origin stories
3. The settlement that lasted
4. Some challenges.
Polynesia and the Pacific, for presentation in 2022.
Introduction to the Polynesia presentations
1. Geography
2. Human occupations.
3. Political evolution.
4. Contemporary challenges.