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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.
Aboriginal Pedagogies at the Cultural Interface
- Author: Yunkaporta, Tyson
- Publisher: James Cook University
- Published: 2009
This research project investigates two questions and proposes two answers. The first question asks how teachers can engage with Aboriginal knowledge. The proposed solution involves applying a reconciling theory of…
The literacy question in remote Indigenous Australia
- Author: Kral, I
- Publisher: Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, Australian National University
- Published: 2009
Public commentary commonly attributes blame to inadequate teaching, poor resourcing of remote schools or even lack of parental support for school attendance. In a recent review of education in the…
Measuring the unmeasurable: Complex evaluations in the Northern Territory
- Authors: Guenther, J, Arnott, A, WIlliams, E
- Publisher: covaluator.net
- Published: 2009
The purpose of this paper is to offer a counter to the argument that changes emerging from social programs are often unmeasurable. We offer a critique of the kinds of…
Remote area power supply system technologies in Western Australia: New developments in 30 years of slow progress
- Author: McHenry, Mark P.
- Published: 2009
The escalation of the renewable energy capacity growth rate in remote pastoral Western Australian (WA) off-grid stand-alone power supply (SPS) systems over the last decade was extraordinary. The expansion was…
The big ecological questions inhibiting effective environmental management in Australia
- Authors: Morton, S. R., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Lindenmayer, D. B., Olson, M. Harriss, Hughes, L., McCulloch, M. T., McIntyre, S., Nix, H. A., Prober, S. M., Saunders, D. A., Andersen, A. N., Burgman, M. A., Lefroy, E. C., Lonsdale, W. M., Lowe, I., McMichael, A. J., Parslow, J. S., Steffen, W., Williams, J. E., Woinarski, J. C. Z.
- Published: 2009
The need to improve environmental management in Australia is urgent because human health, well-being and social stability all depend ultimately on maintenance of life-supporting ecological processes. Ecological science can inform…
Landscape-scale fire research in northern Australia
- Authors: Williams, R.J., Barrett, D., Cook, G.D., Gill, A.M., Hutley, L., Liedloff, A., Myers, B., Woinarski, J.C.Z.
- Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
- Published: 2009
Landscape-scale fire research in northern Australia
Four reasons for concern about adaptation to climate change
- Authors: Adger, W. N., Barnett, J.
- Publisher: Pion Ltd
- Published: 2009
Four reasons for concern about adaptation to climate change Human-induced climate change is real and is likely to drive increasingly dramatic changes in environments in this century and beyond. So,…
Assessing trends in observed and modelled climate extremes over Australia in relation to future projections
- Authors: Alexander, Lisa V., Arblaster, Julie M.
- Published: 2009
Multiple simulations from nine globally coupled climate models were assessed for their ability to reproduce observed trends in a set of indices representing temperature and precipitation extremes over Australia. Observed…
An analysis of future changes in extreme rainfall over Australian regions based on GCM simulations and Extreme Value Analysis.
- Authors: Rafter, T., Abbs, D.
- Published: 2009
An accurate representation of near-surface winds in global forecast models is important in the calculation of surface energy exchange, air pollution dispersion as well as in aviation and wind engineering…
Synthesis report
- Authors: Katherine Richardson, Will Steffen, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Joseph Alcamo, Terry Barker, Daniel M. Kammen, Rik Leemans, Diana Liverman, Mohan Munasinghe, Balgis Osman-Elasha, Nicholas Stern, Ole Wæver
- Published: 2009
Past societies have reacted when they understood that their own activities were causing deleterious environmental change by controlling or modifying the offending activities. The scientific evidence has now become overwhelming…
Hidden biases in Australian energy policy
- Author: Schlapfer, August
- Published: 2009
The challenges in developing technology for the capture and storage of CO2 from coal, oil and gas power generation, as well as those associated with the storage of nuclear waste,…
A Model to Predict Land Susceptibility to Wind Erosion in Western Queensland, Australia
- Authors: Webb, NP, McGowan, HA, Phinn, SR, Leys, JF, McTainsh, GH
- Published: 2009
This paper describes the development and validation of the Australian Land Erodibility Model (AUSLEM), designed to predict land susceptibility to wind erosion in western Queensland, Australia. The model operates at…
Time-controlled rotational grazing: Tara Station, Qld
- Author: Walsh, D
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Published: 2009
The grazing strategy used at Tara is time-controlled rotational grazing. The property is divided into 42 paddocks of varying shapes, with all being 365 hectares in size. Fences are mostly…
The holistic management approach: Etiwanda Station, NSW
- Author: Walsh, D
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Published: 2009
Etiwanda is managed using a Holistic Planning approach. Holistic Planning looks at and integrates all aspects of the enterprise including land, livestock, economics and people. The decision to implement this…
‘Country-condition dependent' grazing in the goldfields: Bulga Downs, WA
- Author: Walsh, D
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Published: 2009
David McQuie has been refining his grazing system for the past 22 years. His family are recognised throughout the district for their conservative approach to land management and David’s observations…
The Politics of Suffering - Indigenous Australia and the end of the liberal consensus
- Author: Sutton, Peter
- Publisher: Melbourne University Press
- Published: 2009
Have Australian Aboriginal communities become places of increased suffering because of the progressive policies of the 1970s-2000s? Australia's leading anthropologist, Peter Sutton, looks at these decades of optimism and grief…
Nanga Mai Arung Dream Shield: A guide to protecting designs, brands and inventions for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders
- Author: IP Australia
- Publisher: Australian Government
- Published: 2009
What is intellectual property and why is it important? Types of IP and what they protect Combined protection Top 5 tips for IP IP and starting a business Real story…
From Desert Syndrome to Desert System: Developing a science of desert living
- Authors: Stafford Smith, DM, Huigen, J
- Published: 2009
Global research over the past decade has increasingly emphasised the fundamentally linked, or ‘coupled’, nature of what have been called human-environment or social-ecological systems. One strand of this thought focuses…
Sustainable bush produce systems: Progress Report 2004-2006
- Authors: Ryder, M, Walsh, F, Douglas, J, Waycott, M, Robson, H, Singh, Z, De Sousa-Majer, MJ, Collins, T, White, J, Cheers, B
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Published: 2009
Research on native foods in Australia has increased over the past 10–15 years. This has resulted in a series of reports that have dealt with issues from food safety, toxicology…
Profile of Leonora: A sustainability case study
- Authors: Rola-Rubzen, MF, Marinova, D, Singleton, G, Altangerel, D, Lozeva, S, Gabunada, FM
- Publisher: Desert Knowledge CRC
- Published: 2009
This paper presents the profile of Leonora town, located in Western Australia. It discusses Leonora’s population, including main demographic characteristics, and economy. It draws on a range of secondary sources,…