"Victoria combines her lifelong experiences as a horsewoman with her depth of experience as a herbalist to produce a book that can help everybody make sense of the otherwise complex world of herbal medicine. While herbs can help your horse, you need some knowledge to use them safely and effectively. I thoroughly recommend it for horse owners and my veterinary colleagues. "
— Dr Keith C Phillips, Veterinarian
Complete with accessible yet detailed information about natural diets and herbal remedies for horses, inspirational case studies, Equine Materia Medica, glossary and index, The Complete Horse Herbal is the absolute guide to natural nutrition and herbal remedies for every horse.
Victoria’s first book “The Practical Horse Herbal” sold over 8,000 in Australia and 1,500 overseas. She completed her Diploma of Herbal Medicine with the eminent Australian herbalist and author Dorothy Hall. In 1997 she established Herbal Horse, providing herbal remedies and natural diet programs to horse people all over Australia.
Victoria Ferguson grew up on a sheep station in Central Queensland. She went mustering with her father and started riding in shows at the age of five years. She has been addicted to horses ever since, competing successfully with hacks, campdrafters, showjumpers, eventers and dressage horses.
With her brilliant dressage partner ‘Gamekeeper’ she competed in the Haig, Samsung and Volvo international competitions for Australia and was selected on the long list for the 1990 World Championships. She is an Equestrian Federation of Australia Level 2 Dressage Instructor.
Victoria completed her Diploma of Herbal Medicine with the eminent Australian herbalist and author Dorothy Hall. In 1997 she established Herbal Horse, providing herbal remedies and natural diet programs to horse people all over Australia. She was the equine herbal medicine contributor to Horse Deals Magazine from 2000 to 2009.
Victoria’s first book The Practical Horse Herbal was published in 2000 and became a best seller, with 8,000 copies selling in Australia and 1,500 overseas. In 2010 Herbal Horse was sold to Anita Brojatsch who plans to uphold the holistic principles and philosophies established by Victoria.
The Complete Horse Herbal was written to share with new and old readers alike the substantial extra knowledge gained in the last ten years of equine herbal medicine practice.
Many parts of the Kimberley are still pretty wild and untamed. Especially those parts from which Jack Dale comes.
These days the Gibb River Road gives people increased access to that country. For most that access just whets the appetite and tantalises.
What are the stories of this landscape? Who are the people of this country?
Answering both questions stands Jack Dale and his art.
He is a Ngarinyin elder who can also trace his bloodlines to Scotland via a cattleman father. Kimberley outsiders might be puzzled.
While the Kimberley can still be a wild place, Jack Dale’s art tell us all stories set largely in a different time.
A small number of Aboriginal stockmen from this recent past have emerged to be recognised as great artists: Paddy Tjumpingee, Rover Thomas and Paddy Bedford among them.
Jack Dale is in that same tradition of the Aboriginal stockman yet traditional elder, who at a great age found “voice” on canvas. In Jack’s case he is from an even more remote, isolated and wild Kimberley location.
He is from “over the ranges” from the Warmun mob; so Jack Dale knows and tells the stories of the Wandjinas. Jack’s art gives us all an unforgettable glimpse into this combination of different worlds colliding in an extraordinarily precious part of our globe.
Jack Dale Mengenen paints powerful images of the Kimberley landscap: his land claim paintings,
Wandjinas, spirits of the clouds — all gathered together from across his country. Jack’s paintings
are a history lesson of his experiences, the story of the Kimberley through much of the twentieth
century.
Jack Dale is a man born in the time of when Aboriginal people were hunted and shot, or imprisoned in chains and removed from their country. He knows their stories and is among those who survived the hardships; he carries the record of achievement with him like a battle scar. Jack’s book is the largely untold story of a proud man who has footwalked all of his country; an honest man with much love for his family, and the next generation.
‘A small number of Aboriginal stockmen from this recent past have emerged to be recognised as great artists : Paddy Tjumpingee, Rover Thomas and Paddy Bedford. Jack Dale is in that same tradition of the Aboriginal stockman yet a traditional elder, who at a great age found “voice” on canvas.’ Tom Stephens JP MLA, Member for Pilbara.
Neil McLeod has worked for well over thirty years in Aboriginal communities, initially as a photographer, documenting Australian Aboriginal technology and cultural practices, and then later as a publisher, researcher and collector.
His earliest contact with the communities was by invitation in 1977 from Indigenous artist and activist David Mowaljarlai, whose frequent exhortation ‘We’ve got to use western tools to help us’ inspired Neil to dedicate years to taking modern art materials to isolated communities.
Neil first met Jack Dale in the early 1980s through his work with the Mowanjum community near Derby, Western Australia. Over the years a close relationship developed between them and from 2000 onwards Jack started to paint almost exclusively for Neil. Neill is the photographer/author of 67 books published in Australia.
29 November 1880 Notorious bushranger Ned Kelly captured by police, Glenrowan, Vic.
1 July 1932
Federal government forms the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
This book is brilliant. Insightful and comprehensive, it is simply the best-ever single-volume history of Australia's International relations. An instant classic, written by an acclaimed expert, it tells the story of how Australia consistently sought the best results for the country and how Prime Ministers and officials helped to influence the outcome of major world events throughout the century.
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A police officer in Melbourne at the end of the nineteenth century ideally had to be male, ‘well set-up’ physically, with a demeanour and attitude intended to command respect from those he might meet on his daily round — usually the routine ‘beat’ he trod around the city streets. This entertaining new book enters the daily lives of those colonial policemen, exploring the politics and personalities behind the scenes as the police force evolved from the community-based beat system of the goldrush era into the mechanised organisation of the early twentieth century.
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‘War is no longer about battlefields, it is now about propaganda itself.’
In this important new book, Dr Lynette Finch traces the origins and development of propaganda and media-manipulation from the 1800s to today’s ‘spin’ and public relations culture. She explains why governments in every part of the world, in the midst of major military conflicts, have considered it necessary to create a ‘suitable climate’ for sacrifice among their people.
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'We must be very careful of bright greens’ said William Morris in 1880. At that time he was giving some handy hints about house decoration, but his words came at the start of a decade of social and political activity that would be held more than 100 years later as evidence of his involvement in early ‘green’ politics.
The Greening of William Morris follows the presence of nature in the work of this inspirational designer and philosopher and focuses on his many lectures and writings to prove that his context was nineteenth-century materialism and culture rather than modern-day conservation or eco-spiritualism.
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