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Remote Australia is a vast and complex area. To create opportunity, foster social inclusion and drive economic development in this region, you need a comprehensive knowledge base to drive change.
Remote Australia Online is exactly that. It’s an online platform that delivers authoritative research on topics that impact this region and its people, including education and its pathways, policy, business, social and cultural welfare, infrastructure, communication and natural resource management.
Remote Australia Online is for those who want to delve deeper into the complexities of remote Australia: its intricate and interconnected networks, the geographical, social, cultural and environmental influences, its opportunities, challenges, and to understand just what makes this unique region tick.
New tracks: Indigenous knowledge and cultural expression and the Australian intellectual property system
- Authors: Terri Janke, Peter Dawson
- Published: 2012
IP Australia and the Office for the Arts (Cth) brochure, Finding the Way: a conversation with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People seeks feedback from Indigenous people to share stories…
‘Stacks of Fire - Implementing a Fire Management Program Mount Isa Mines’
- Author: K. Masters
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
How does a mine site environmental advisor convince a mine manager to let them light a fire within a few hundred meters of two fresh air intakes of an underground…
Mungalla – a case study of wetland restoration on Indigenous land
- Authors: D.M. Nicholas, Jacob Cassady, Anthony C Grice
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
North Queensland coastal wetlands have been severely degraded by the Weeds of National Significance (WoNS), Hymenachne amplexicaulis (Olive hymenachne) with lesser impacts by Salvinia molesta (Salvinia), and Eichhornia crassipes (Water…
Scaling grazing trial results upwards to a whole property level – a case study using the Wambiana grazing trial
- Authors: Joe Scanlan, Neil MacLeod, Peter O’Reagain
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
Grazing trials are used to quantify and demonstrate the biophysical impact of grazing strategies, with the Wambiana grazing trial being one of the longest running trials in northern Australia. Previous…
Sustainability and Degradation. An unresolved conflict for low productivity rangeland
- Author: John Stretch
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
A scarcity of natural surface water and the long established cultural practice of Aboriginal Australia jointly served to protect the rangeland from intense grazing pressure. This protection served to optimise…
Providing a diversity of management to achieve a greater plant diversity
- Authors: Angus Whyte, Peter Jessop
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
A bit of background and explanation of where we live, Wyndham is a 12,500ha property on the Anabranch River in Western NSW about 200km south of Broken Hill; we graze…
Understanding the preference of cattle for shade and water
- Authors: G.J. Bishop-Hurley, K. Patison, D.L. Swain, G. Peare, R. Jurdak
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
Natural resource management (NRM) groups have been co-funding the removal of cattle from riparian zones by installing fences and off-stream watering points. Riparian areas provide not only a source of…
The effects of fire on grazed Mitchell Grass pastures in the East Kimberley: a case study
- Authors: Andrew B. Craig, David J. Hadden
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
Mitchell Grass pastures are valued for their high carrying capacity and traditionally there has been some reluctance to use fire in their management. The effects of fire in a cattle…
Water ponding on Larrawa station, November 2011: a photo story
- Authors: Matthew Fletcher, Kevin Brockhurst, Melanie McDonald, Ray Thompson
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
On-ground works completed at Larrawa station producer demonstration site in 2011 focussed on building open water ponds and collecting data on their cost($) to construct. Water ponding is a proven…
Prediction of feed intake in growing beef cattle fed tropical forages
- Authors: Luciano A. González, Carlos Ramírez-Restrepo, David Coate, Ed Charmley
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
Prediction of feed intake in beef enterprises is important for feed budgeting, productivity, profitability and environmental outcomes (e.g. carbon and methane accounting). The objective of this study was to develop…
Optimising Capital Investment and Operations for the Livestock Industry in Northern Australia
- Authors: Andrew Higgins, Ian Watson, Chris Chilcott
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
Despite the northern beef industry’s longevity, scale and importance, recent disruptions to external markets have demonstrated a degree of industry vulnerability to supply chain shocks. Matching the industry’s long-evident resilience…
How global trends in population, energy use, water use, and climate impact on rangeland and rangeland users. Implications for policy development, land use and management, conservation and production
- Author: Jerry L. Holechek
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
Increasing world human population, declining reserves of cheaply extracted fossil fuels, fresh water scarcity, and climatic instability will put tremendous pressure on world rangelands as the 21st century progresses. It…
Soil carbon and landscape function: grazing friend or foe?
- Author: Helen P. King
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
The majority of Australian grazing lands have been degraded since European settlement, resulting in loss of soil carbon and reduced capacity to provide ecosystem services, from primary productivity and climate…
Development and implementation of a field based data entry system (FDE) used in land condition monitoring of pastoral leases in the South Australian rangelands.
- Authors: J. Maconochie, F. Facelli, C. Baulderstone
- Publisher: Australian Rangeland Society
- Published: 2012
In an effort to streamline the monitoring of pastoral leases in South Australia the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (DEWNR) Pastoral Unit has developed and implemented the use…
Patenting the Kakadu Plum and the Marjarla Tree: Biodiscovery, Intellectual Property and Indigenous Knowledge
- Authors: Holcombe, S, Janke, T
- Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
- Published: 2012
The Australian government’s 2009 endorsement of the ‘Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ brings a renewed recognition and focus on Indigenous knowledge ownership in the area of Indigenous cultural…
Changing Scale, Mixing Interests: Generational Change in Northern Territory Local Government
- Author: Sanders, W.
- Published: 2012
This article examines recent local government reform in the Northern Territory from two perspectives. The first is a quantitative perspective on population and finances, which focuses on the mixing of…
Indigenous Innovation: New Dialogues, New Pathways
- Author: Antony Taubman
- Publisher: ANU E Press
- Published: 2012
Trade, intellectual property and indigenous knowledge systems — the value systems, the cultural contexts, the very world views that these three simple terms can evoke are often assumed to be…
A Typology of Indigenous Engagement in Australian Environmental Management: Implications for Knowledge Integration and Social-ecological System Sustainability
- Authors: Hill, Rosemary, Grant, Chrissy, George, Melissa, Robinson, Catherine J., Jackson, Sue, Abel, Nick
- Publisher: The Resilience Alliance
- Published: 2012
Indigenous peoples now engage with many decentralized approaches to environmental management that offer opportunities for integration of Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK) and western science to promote cultural diversity in the…
Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Fisheries Management in the Torres Strait, Australia: the Catalytic Role of Turtles and Dugong as Cultural Keystone Species
- Authors: Butler, James R. A., Tawake, Alifereti, Skewes, Tim, Tawake, Lavenia, McGrath, Vic
- Publisher: The Resilience Alliance
- Published: 2012
In many developing regions of Melanesia, fishers’ traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has been integrated with western science and management knowledge (SMK) to generate innovative and effective fisheries management. Previous research…
Parenting in the early years: effectiveness of parenting support programs for Indigenous families
- Authors: Robyn Mildon, Melinda Polimeni
- Publisher: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare & Australian Institute of Family Studies
- Published: 2012
Families play a critical role in their children’s development and learning. A large body of research provides strong evidence that parents and the home environment are the most influential forces…