Park life
The bush is iconic to Australia. So unlike anything Europeans had previously known, it quickly became the root and trunk of the nation’s identity. It has inspired some of the country’s greatest poets, with their bush ballads of pioneers scratching out a living in a harsh, unforgiving land. We have been captivated by tales of our most notorious heroes – bushrangers – who, under canopies of eucalypt and unbroken night skies, so successfully evaded the long arm of the law.
In the twenty-two decades since white settlement, paintings, literature, songs, and films have all evoked the primordial, lush and dense nature of Australia’s bushland. They paint a picture of a never ending sea of green; unkempt, untouched, untamed.