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Transport Disadvantage and Indigenous Australians

  • Author(s): Currie, G, Senbergs, Z
  • Published: 2007
  • Publisher: Monash University ePress

This chapter provides a review of transport disadvantage in the context of Indigenous Australians with a more specific focus on remote Australia. It identifies transport related disadvantages associated with Indigenous communities, discusses travel behaviour pattens and identifies transport needs and problems. It discusses Aboriginal issues of disadvantage generally and how these affect access to transport….

A review of sampling designs for the measurement of soil organic carbon in Australian grazing lands

  • Author(s): Allen, D.E., Pringle, M.J., Page, K.L., Dalal, R.C.
  • Published: 2010

The accurate measurement of the soil organic carbon (SOC) stock in Australian grazing lands is important due to the major role that SOC plays in soil productivity and the potential influence of soil C cycling on Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. However, the current sampling methodologies for SOC stock are varied and potentially conflicting. It was…

Climate Change in the Northern Territory

  • Author(s): Hennessy, K., C. Page, K. McInnes, K. Walsh, B. Pittock, J. Bathols, R. Suppiah
  • Published: 2004
  • Publisher: CSIRO

This report presents results of a project undertaken by CSIRO for the Northern Territory Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment to assess observed and projected climate change over the Territory, as well as potential impacts and knowledge gaps. This assessment draws upon the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published in…

Indigenous/Traditional Knowledge & Intellectual Property

  • Author(s): Anderson, Jane E.
  • Published: 2010
  • Publisher: Centre for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University School of Law

The relationship between indigenous/traditional knowledge and intellectual property law is a complicated contemporary legal problem. Questions around indigenous knowledge protection present issues unlike any other that intellectual property law has had to consider. Indigenous peoples’ concerns include legal questions involving copyright, patents, trademarks, designs and/or confidential information. They also raise issues that are not always…

Ability of global climate models at a regional scale over Australia

  • Author(s): Perkins, S.E., Pitman, A.J., Holbrook, N.J., McAneney, J.
  • Published: 2007
  • Publisher: DKCRC

We evaluate the coupled climate models used in the fourth assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Our evaluation is focused on twelve regions of Australia for the daily simulation of precipitation, minimum temperature and maximum temperature. We base our evaluation on Probability Density Functions (PDFs). We introduce a simple quantitative measure…

Climate change impacts

  • Author(s): Hennessy, Kevin
  • Published: 2011
  • Publisher: CSIRO Publishing

The impacts of climate change are already clearly visible in Australia. Further impacts predicted to occur in the future will be experienced across all sectors of the economy and in all ecosystems. Southern and eastern Australia’s water supply reliability is expected to decline as a result of reduced rainfall and increased evaporation, affecting irrigation, domestic…

The Cultural Interface

  • Author(s): Nakata, M
  • Published: 2007

For a while now I have been researching and writing about Australian Indigenous education issues. Like you all, I have seen much good work and learnt much from what is going on across the country and internationally to improve outcomes for Indigenous learners in formal education processes. And still we go on with the struggle…

Land management for emissions offsets on Indigenous lands

  • Author(s): Heckbert, S. , Davies, J. , Cook, G. , McIvor, J. , Bastin, G. , Liedloff, A.
  • Published: 2008
  • Publisher: CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems

This report describes research on the possible generation of greenhouse gas offsets derived from Indigenous land management. Land management practices can sequester carbon or change emissions regimes, and with access to markets, a change in carbon stocks or emissions may be sold as an offset. Biophysical, economic, and institutional conditions set limits to these possibilities….

Social research methods : qualitative and quantitative approaches

  • Author(s): Neuman, WL.
  • Published: 2011
  • Publisher: Pearson

Social Research Methods: Qualitative and Quantitative Methods 7e is a highly regarded text that presents a comprehensive and balanced introduction to both qualitative and quantitative approaches to social research with an emphasis on the benefits of combining various approaches. Contents Pt. One. Foundations 1. Why do research? 2. What are the major types of social…

The Aboriginal Practitioner as Communication Mediator in Intercultural Bureaucratic Encounters

  • Author(s): Firkins, Arthur S
  • Published: 2011
  • Publisher: Ninti One Limited

Governments in Australia have deployed Aboriginal specific positions within government departments which focus on health, education and welfare services. This small-scale study uses a qualitative interpretive interview approach to explore the relative value of these targeted positions to service provision. The paper reveals that Aboriginal practitioners use a range of communication strategies that enable them…

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