This book is about what Australians do with nature, not what they say they love about it.

Drawing on environmental history, geography, and everyday practices, Lesley Head traces how ideas of “nature” in Australia are shaped by labour, colonial settlement, climate anxiety, gardening, conservation, and consumption.

Rather than treating nature as something separate or sacred, Beyond Green shows it as social, worked on, argued over, and deeply entangled with economics and power.

It’s a grounded, unsentimental read that cuts through romantic environmentalism and asks harder questions about responsibility, habit, and belonging on a damaged continent.

Hard to read, vital to know.