Yarloop, Western Australia
My life in brief
1965 Along the coast to go spear fishing
A view of the farm I wanted to own
Sundays spent shooting a 303 on the rifle range at Yarloop.
1967 Going fishing and catching a shark
Going fishing with my cousin.
Photos of Yarloop, Western Australia
My home from age 7
The purpose of the town
Photos of tree felling for Yarloop Timber Mill
Trees being brought down
Roads - a bit of Yarloop history
Life as a kid in Yarloop.
About the Author
Maxwell Partington has been a teacher, farmer, tour operator, milkman, website maker, writer, and has lived in Australia, Thailand, South Korea, Nigeria, and China.
Getting cancer in 2009 when in Nigeria meant needing treatment which resulted in moving back to Australia and living in Albury, New South Wales, which is on the Murray River and a good place to raise a daughter. It has the snowfields handy in winter if you want to toboggan or ski, over forty other sports played in the district, and with Wodonga on the Victorian side of the Murray River a population of about one hundred thousand which for Australia represents a big population with commensurate facilities.
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne operated on my right axila to remove the lymph nodes but some were left and needed radiotherapy at the Murray Valley Radiation Oncology Centre at the Murray Valley Private Hospital in Wodonga to eradicate the cancer. By this stage I was sixty eight years old so I retired in Albury.
I was fortunate despite my age to spend some time in China teaching Physics. Other parts of my life are described on the website for the Maxwell Empire Books. The photos of Yarloop found on the website for The Family of All Life Alliance represent the town in Western Australia where I spent my childhood.
I am very concerned about our planet. From my books you can see that we cannot continue with our present way of life. It cannot hold the number of humans that call it home. The girl Greta unfortunately does not realise that the real problem is humans, or too many of them. The conversations in my books which involve the number of humans are many and varied. I guess you need to read the books to follow them all.
Another aspect to my stories is the future use of robots to do all work if wanted and the consequent expansion of Earth's species to other planets. These will take hundreds of years to reach which makes sending astronauts to anywhere other than the Moon not possible.
Space City, Space Elevators, terraforming, Moon cities, are all necessary aspects of life in a couple of thousand years. My previous occupations as teacher and farmer make my treatment of these more plausible.
The books 1 to 4 are in 4576. Book 5 is in 4587 when the first children on Maxwell 01, the Ones, are 14 years old. Read about life there in Andy Ones diary.
Writing these books has shown me that airships have many uses for us on Earth for tourism and fighting bushfires, although I have still to convince any of our politicians to start building them. To begin terraforming a planet they are the ideal way to spread genetically engineered algae spores to introduce life to a barren planet.
You will notice that the books are mainly conversations. The scripted books make their use for students to read as plays beneficial particularly to those needing material to make learning English more enjoyable.
Science and geography students will benefit from the treatment of life in Space City, which consists of thousands of rotating segments located over thirty five thousand kilometres above the equator where factories with robots build spaceships to take Earth life to other planets, space tugs to intercept objects from space on a collision course with Earth or the Moon, and material from asteroids, Mars and the Moon is used.
The need for Space Elevators in our future is demonstrated as well as the need for the ability to restore life from samples of DNA.
Sports in the Moon and the Space City will engage young readers.
Photos from Australia
Some images to appreciate which have been taken over the last sixty years.
Images 1
Images 2
Images 3
Others
