In the late 1980s an initiative called “Greening Port Moresby” was run by the National Capital Interim District Commission, the provincial government for the capital city of Papua New Guinea. It was run by the Parks, Gardens and Sports Branch. Certificates were printed with the intention of enrolling members of the public, to increase their awareness of the need to plant trees and flowers, reduce rubbish and minimise burning of the grasslands around the city. No register was kept and the initiative did not gain much traction.

As one tool towards the Greening objective, the Parks Superintendent ran a course in horticulture for his staff. The staff were mostly grass roots workers, although some had completed Grade 10.

PaRc holds a digital file being a compilation of Newsletters No. 4 of March 1973, 13 of August 1975, 20 of March 1977 and 25-34 of September 1980. This is 176 MB and is available on request by researchers. We have published No. 35 of November 1980 as a sample.

The CCV was born in 1970 out of the Little Desert campaign.

Director Reg Johnson wrote these notes of CCV Awareness Tour of East Gippsland in 1979.

This pair of guides for teachers and other leaders, the Get Active Schools Program by Sport and Recreation Queensland, is dated 2004:

Get Active Queensland Schools Program – Primary School (70.1 MB), about 137 pages.

Get Active Queensland Schools Program – Secondary School (65 MB), about 176 pages.

The Friends of Parks movement in Victoria began in 1072 when members of the Maribyrnong Valley Committee led by the late Don Marsh approached the National Parks Service to offer help to revegetate the new Organ Pipes National Park. The story of the OPNP appears in an article in the magazine Victoria’s Resources in ~1974.

A leaflet promoting the Friends as at ~2000 is available here.

One of the objectives of PaRC is to make available course notes and curricula for teachers in parks and leisure subjects at all levels, from primary to postgraduate. We appeal to teachers, tutors and lecturers to send us materials which are either out of copyright or can be published under Creative Commons conditions with copyright approval.

The attached proposal dated 1985 for a course in urban horticulture has been found in the archives and no doubt describes only one of many related courses that are now or have been presented in one state or another. We don’t pretend that it is a reliable guide to modern education in this field. We publish it here by way of a challenge to teachers and lecturers to send us better material!

This paper has been scanned and edited to de-identify the name of the institution concerned and the personnel.

PaRC has retrieved a flyer for the Fourteenth National School in Park Management 16–21 February, 2014 from the archives. The course was run by the Melbourne School of Land & Environment (University of Melbourne) and the City of Melbourne. We would be delighted to hear from any presenter or participant who has held onto course notes that could be repackaged for a modern audience.