Tinderbox Drought 297–9 Tingarri Dreaming at Walawala 20 Tiwi Peoples 42–3 tombs 92, 93, 4, 97 Tutankhamun 102–104, 158–9 Tom Price township 362 topological maps 237 torrential rain 325, 337 Torres Strait Islander Peoples 30 communities 25 land managed 54–5 tombstone openings of 42 trade 48 totems 36, 38 Totems of the Manarrngu 36 tourism 405 Towards a New Dreaming (McKenzie) 21 trade 37, 106–10 in ancient Australia 45–51 expansion and 210–11
uranium 246, 337 urban decay 349, 424
Australia’s climate 262–5 climate change 261–2 dry 262 global rainfall 260
V Valley of the Kings 74, 122 values 431, 435, 517, 523, 527, 609, 619 in Australian society 523–4 variability, water 273–6 vassal state 111, 122 Vélib program 388 virtual water 273, 337 virtues 155–6, 177 voluntary standards 577 voluntary work 596–8 Volunteer Fire and Rescue Service (VFRS) 596
green and blue water 260–1 variable and evaporated 262 usage in Australia 273 variability 273–6 virtual water 273 wind blowing 309–16 world 259 water-borne diseases 288–90 water cycle 249 groundwater and 252–3 operation 249 water footprint 273, 337 water refugees 280 water scarcity 277–8, 337 access to water 280–1 deýned 280 dirty water affect health 281 human right to water 280 overcome 279–91 pollution rivers 281–4 Sustainable Development Goals 284–7 water security, in Australia 265–6 water stress 280, 337 water supply, managing of 287 weather and climate 293 map 312–15 wind inþuences 309–10 weather change 291–3 weather maps 236 wedge-tailed eagle 26 weirs 60, 70, 305 wellbeing 614, 619 Westminster system 456, 472 whetstones 49 White Australia Policy 516, 527 White Nile 81
W wage 591, 594, 601, 619
Wandjina rock art 24 Wang Mang 211–12 wants 534, 542, 548–53, 583 deýned 548 war, effects of 106–10 warlords 213, 222 warm air 311 water across borders 287–8 availability and accessibility 276–7 distribution 259 droughts and þooding rain 297–309 enough 271–9 as environmental resource 271–3 everywhere 273 extreme weather 316–23 global rainfall 260 green and blue 260–1 groundwater 252–9 hydrometeorological hazards 291–7 difference between weather and climate 293
pearl shell 47 practices 47 Torres Strait 48
Traditional Custodians 396 traditions, in Australian society 523–4 transport 82, 371 transport strategies 387–90 tree change 404, 424 Trevor-Roper, Hugh 170
tribalism 516, 527 Troedel, Charles 37
tropical cyclones 325–7 troposphere 309, 337 Tutankhamun 102–6 new mystery 104 tutini 42–3 2024 Summer Olympic Games 374–5 typhoons 323, 337 U UN Sustainable Development Goals 284, 415–16 undernourished 413, 424 unemployment rate 591 UNESCO 217 unicameral 451, 472 University of the Third Age 387, 424 unlimited liability 555, 583 unpaid work 596–8 upper-class women 90–1
whiteouts 321, 337 wilderness 351, 424 winds 311 blowing 309–16
natural hazards 294–6 weather change 291–3 locating 256–8 in Nile Basin 282–4 in Noosa 268–71 quality of local waterway 332–3 regional use of 272 resource types 246–52 supply variable 259–68
air pressure 310–11 Earth’s rotation 312 gale force 325, 336 inþuences weather 309–10 role of sun 311–12 symbols on weather map 313, 314 on weather map 312–15
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