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The Darebin Parklands Association (DPA) is a United Nations Association of Australia award-winning environmental friends group that cares for the Darebin Parklands, a 33 hectare bushland reserve on the border of Alphington and Ivanhoe in Melbourne, Australia.
Please take a look around our website to find out how you can get involved in the parklands through our events, Junior Ranger Club and revegetation projects.
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Darebin Parklands - The Book
How to order Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine
In person:Due to popular demand, the book is now available from the Darebin Parklands Environment Centre, at the end of Separation Street, in Alphington. Note however that the centre is open at limited times only as the rangers are often in the park working.
We will also be selling books at DPA events in 2012. A full calendar of activities is on the events page of this website and under the events tab on our Facebook page.
By post: download an order form from this page (or pick one up from the parklands environment centre) and post with payment by cheque or money order to PO Box 3, Ivanhoe, 3079.
Online: go to our secure online store and pay using your credit or debit card or PayPal account.
About Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine
Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine by Dr Sarah Mirams, with foreword by former Australian of the Year Professor Tim Flannery, is now available from the DPA's secure online store, where you can purchase with your credit card or PayPal account. Click here to go to our secure online store.
Darebin Parklands: Escaping the Claws of the Machine is a beautifully illustrated coffee table book that tells the story of the land our park is created on – from the First Nation indigenous owners to the farmers and industrialists who later occupied the site. It tells of how concerted community action over a generation saw the land saved “from the claws of the machine”.
Order the book through our secure online store.
More information about the book here.
Read about the book in The Age here and in The Melbourne Times Weekly here.
Print and post this order form with your payment, or skip the paperwork and purchase through our secure online store.
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