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Dickman, Christopher R., Daniel Lunney, and Alison Matthews. "Ecological attributes and conservation of native rodents in New South Wales." Wildlife Research 27, no. 4 (2000): 347. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr97133.

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In New South Wales, at least 28 species of native rodents have been recorded since European settlement. Four of these are extinct nationally, six are extinct in the State, six are vulnerable and four are endangered; only eight remain non-threatened. Declines and losses have been greatest in central and western New South Wales and least in the State’s north-east. Neither body weight nor habit are associated with status, but taxa such as Rattus species with broad diets and habitat preferences remain generally less threatened than ecological specialists. Threatening processes affect all vulnerable and endangered species, with predation from introduced carnivores, grazing from livestock, clearance of vegetation and changed fire regimes being among the most severe. No species occur entirely on reserved land, while two endangered species have no secure land tenure. A program of survey, research, management and education is proposed to help achieve recovery.
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Kercher, Bruce. "Commerce and the Development of Contract Law in Early New South Wales." Law and History Review 9, no. 2 (1991): 269–325. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/743650.

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The penal colony of New South Wales was founded in January, 1788, with a population of convicts, military people, and a few civil officers. The settlement displaced one of the oldest cultures on earth, as English law failed to recognize that the Aborigines had any right to the land they had occupied for 40,000 years. On their first night ashore the women convicts were greeted by mass debauchery that deserved to be recorded by Hogarth, all under a heavy thunderstorm.
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Butterworth, Lee. "Investigating death in Moreton Bay: Coronial inquests and magisterial inquiries." Queensland Review 26, no. 01 (June 2019): 53–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.2.

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AbstractEnglish common law was applied in the New South Wales penal colony when it was founded by Governor Arthur Phillip in 1788. Phillip’s second commission granted him sole authority to appoint coroners and justices of the peace within the colony. The first paid city coroner was appointed in 1810 and only five coroners served the expanding territory of New South Wales by 1821. To relieve the burden on coroners, justices of the peace were authorised to conduct magisterial inquiries as an alternative to inquests. When the Moreton Bay settlement was established, and land was opened up to free settlers, justices were relocated from New South Wales to the far northern colony. Nonetheless, the administration of justice, along with the function of the coroner, was hindered by issues of isolation, geography and poor administration by a government far removed from the evolving settlement. This article is about death investigation and the role of the coroner in Moreton Bay. By examining a number of case studies, it looks at the constraints faced by coroners, deaths due to interracial violence and deaths not investigated. It concludes that not all violent and unexplained deaths were investigated in accordance with coronial law due to a paucity of legally qualified magistrates, the physical limitations of local conditions and the denial of justice to Aborigines as subjects of the Crown.
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Knott, Tiffany, Daniel Lunney, Dionne Coburn, and John Callaghan. "An ecological history of Koala habitat in Port Stephens Shire and the Lower Hunter on the Central Coast of New South Wales, 1801-1998." Pacific Conservation Biology 4, no. 4 (1998): 354. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc980354.

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This paper describes the vegetation of Port Stephens Shire and environs at the time of European settlement, defines the sequence of vegetation clearance since that time, and estimates the extent to which the pre-European vegetation represented Koala habitat. A study of historical records, newspapers, documents and reports was undertaken in conjunction with interviews with long-standing Port Stephens residents. The historical records show that Koalas were widespread and common during early settlement. Reconstruction of the original vegetation was based on descriptions by early explorers and settlers from the early 1800s, when settlement commenced. Most of the land on either side of the Hunter River was vegetated by Shrubby Tall Open Forest intermingling with either Open Swamp Forest, or VineFern Closed Forest, or cedar brush. The first area to be settled was the alluvial land on the banks of the rivers where the soil was fertile and well watered. Settlement proceeded rapidly in the western part of the Shire from the early 1800s, concentrating on the Lower Hunter and Williams Rivers, but not progressing to the east until much later (mid to late 1800s). The historical record was sufficiently detailed to allow reconstruction of Koala habitat distribution at the time of settlement. Ecological history is now emerging as a discipline that has far more than curiosity value. It can provide the essential framework for conserving and restoring those landscapes exploited in the first century of European settlement.
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R. Dickman, Christopher, Daniel Lunney, and Alison Matthews. "Ecological attributes and conservation of dasyurid marsupials in New South Wales, Australia." Pacific Conservation Biology 7, no. 2 (2001): 124. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc010124.

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This paper outlines the status of dasyurid marsupials in New South Wales, Australia, and then compares the ecological attributes of threatened and non-threatened species. Of the 21 species recorded in the state since European settlement, eight are protected but not threatened, 10 are listed or proposed for listing as vulnerable or endangered, and three are presumed extinct. Status was not related to diet, habit or habitat. However, species weighing <35 g are less likely to be threatened than heavier species, while species occupying a single region are more likely to be threatened than species occurring in two or more regions. All vulnerable and endangered species occur at least partly in reserves and other areas of protected land, but are likely to be affected by one or more threatening processes. These processes differ regionally, with larger species (=175 g) being affected by a greater range of threats than very small species (<15 g). We propose a programme of survey, research, management and education to promote and sustain recoveries.
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Shield, Margaret. "Crown Lands Commissioners – Moreton Bay and Darling Downs, 1842–56." Queensland Review 26, no. 01 (June 2019): 71–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2019.7.

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AbstractCommissioners of Crown Lands were the first government officials appointed to the newly declared pastoral districts surrounding Moreton Bay after it was opened to free settlement in 1842. These officers had a significant impact on the formation of regional communities, the administration of justice and the treatment of the Indigenous people but their primary responsibility was the implementation and enforcement of government policies relating to Crown Lands. Commissioners were required to oversee pastoral leases, ensure payment of fees for pastoral and other licences and undertake expeditions to provide the New South Wales government with information regarding the nature of the land and its resources. Extracts from the original correspondence between the Commissioners and the Colonial Secretary indicate that, despite enormous challenges, early Crown Lands Commissioners were largely successful in ensuring the orderly settlement of pastoral districts. Their success however, came at the expense of the Indigenous people, who were systematically driven from their lands without compensation and with scant consideration for their welfare.
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Lunney, Daniel. "Causes of the extinction of native mammals of the Western Division of New South Wales: an ecological interpretation of the nineteenth century historical record." Rangeland Journal 23, no. 1 (2001): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj01014.

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Twenty-four mammal species – predominantly the medium-sized, ground-dwelling mammals with a dependence on grass/herbs and seeds – disappeared forever from the landscape of the Western Division of New South Wales in a period of 60 years from first settlement in 1841. The present study examines the causes of this extinction episode by constructing a picture of the changing landscape from the historical record and interpreting the findings ecologically. The conclusions point to an extinction process that can be largely attributed to the impact of sheep, an impact that was exacerbated in the scarce and fragile refuges of the flat landscape in times of intense and frequent drought. This conclusion differs from those of many others, particularly Kerin in the Western Lands Review, who pointed to "the impact of feral animals, rather than overgrazing" as the cause of mammal extinctions, and Morton, who considered that the rabbit was "principally (although not entirely)" responsible for mammal extinctions in the rangelands. The rabbit plague in the Western Division from the early 1880s and the influx of foxes in the last years of the 19th century expedited the local demise of some species and even delivered the final blow to surviving remnant populations of a few species of native mammals but they were not the primary agent of extinction. Historical accounts give prominence to the rapidly growing wool industry in the 19th century. From its dominant position as an export commodity, wool became the chief means of the successful spread of colonial settlement. By 1853 there were about 300,000 sheep based at the southern end of the Darling on the watered frontages, which were all taken up by 1858. The west of the Darling was largely occupied by sheep farmers between 1859 and 1876. The history of settlement around Menindee from 1841 can be read as a devastating critique of the failure to realise that the west could not sustain a pattern of land use imposed on it from another world. The deterioration of the pastoral landscape was such that by the late 1880s the "walls of the pastoral fortresses... were beginning to crumble of their own accord, as the foundations on which they were built — the physical environment — altered under stresses...". The sequence of occupation and land use in the Western Division and the timing of the loss of native mammal species allows the conclusion to be drawn that it was sheep, and the way the land was managed for the export wool industry, that drove so many of the mammal species to extinction. The impact of ever-increasing millions of sheep on all frontages, through all the refuges, and across all the landscape by the mid 1880s is the primary cause of the greatest period of mammal extinction in Australia in modern times.
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Henry, B. K., D. Butler, and S. G. Wiedemann. "Quantifying carbon sequestration on sheep grazing land in Australia for life cycle assessment studies." Rangeland Journal 37, no. 4 (2015): 379. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj14109.

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The sheep industry has played an important role in Australia’s development and economy over the 220 years since European settlement and remains an important land use in Australia, occupying an estimated 85 million ha of continental land mass. Historically, deforestation was carried out in many sheep-rearing regions to promote pasture growth but this has not occurred within recent decades and many wool producers have invested in planting trees as well as preserving patches of remnant vegetation. Although the limitations of single environmental impact studies are recognised, this paper focuses on the contribution of carbon sequestration in trees and shrubs on sheep farms to the global warming potential impact category in life cycle assessment of wool. The analysis represents three major wool-producing zones of Australia. Based on default regional yields as applied in Australia’s National Inventory model, FullCAM, CO2 removals in planted exotic pines and mixed native species were estimated to be 5.0 and 3.0 t CO2 ha–1 year–1, respectively, for the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales in the ‘high-rainfall zone’ and 1.4 t CO2 ha–1 year–1 for mixed native species in the ‘sheep-wheat zone’ of Western Australia. Applying modified factors allowing for the higher measured growth rates in regions with rainfall >300 mm, gave values for native species reforestation of 4.4 and 2.0 t CO2 ha–1 year–1 for New South Wales and Western Australia, respectively. Sequestration was estimated to be 0.07 t CO2 ha–1 year–1 over 100 years for chenopod shrublands of the ‘pastoral zone’ of South Australia but this low rate is significant because of the extent of regeneration. Sequestration of soil organic carbon in improved permanent pastures in the New South Wales Northern Tablelands was evaluated to be highly uncertain but potentially significant over large areas of management. Improved data and consistent methodologies are needed for quantification of these benefits in life cycle assessment studies for wool and sheep meat, and additional impact categories, such as biodiversity, need to be included if the public and private benefits provided by good management of vegetation resources on farms are to be more fully recognised.
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F. Braby, Michael, and Ted D. Edwards. "The butterfly fauna of the Griffith district, a fragmented semi-arid landscape in inland southern New South Wales." Pacific Conservation Biology 12, no. 2 (2006): 140. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pc060140.

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Thirty-three species of butterflies are recorded from the Griffith district in the semi-arid zone of inland southern New South Wales. The butterfly community comprises the following structure: 19 species (58%) are resident; 7 (21 %) are regular immigrants; 2 (6%) are irregular immigrants; 5 (15%) are vagrants. Except for a few migratory species, most occur in relatively low abundance. Lack of similar studies elsewhere in western New South Wales precludes generalizations regarding the species richness, composition and structure of semi-arid butterfly communities. Comparison of the butterfly fauna with that from five other inland regions on the slopes and foothills of the Great Diving Range, revealed that the Griffith district is most similar in species richness and composition to that of Deniliquin and to a lesser extent Wagga Wagga and Cowra in the south, than with two regions in the higher summer rainfall area of the north of the State (Coonabarabran-Mendooran, Narrabri-Bellata). Overall, the butterfly fauna of inland New South Wales (total of 73 species, of which 49 occur in the southern regions) is depauperate compared with that recorded from the coastal/subcoastal areas east of the Great Dividing Range. Attention is drawn to the conservation significance of several vegetation types and habitat remnants in the Griffith district. Much of the native vegetation in the district has been extensively modified since European settlement due to excessive clearing for agriculture, resulting in a highly fragmented landscape for the conservation of native flora and fauna. With the exception of the lycaenid Candalides hyacinthinus Simplex, which is considered threatened locally, there is a general absence of narrow range endemic butterflies associated with mallee-heathland or mallee-woodland, possibly as a result of widespread land clearing practices of mallee vegetation in the past.
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LUNNEY, DANIEL, and TANYA LEARY. "The impact on native mammals of land-use changes and exotic species in the Bega district, New South Wales, since settlement." Austral Ecology 13, no. 1 (March 1988): 67–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.1988.tb01417.x.

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Scott, Jennifer (Jennifer E. )., University of Western Sydney, of Science Technology and Environment College, and School of Environment and Agriculture. "Integrating sustainability provisions into contemporary decision making." THESIS_CSTE_EAG_Scott_J.xml, 2004. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/500.

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Sustainable development is a multi-faceted and complex proposition, investigating such a goal required a grounded study capable of analysing real world issues. Managing such a highly diverse region as Western Sydney with its multiple demands is complicated by the plethora of government administration agencies. Contemporary land use planning policies and decisions appear frequently at odds with community values and aspirations for the region. Evidence presented in this research suggests a declining natural resource base that manifests itself in an insidious cost impost to the public sector while the benefits accrue to the private sector.Eventual developments in the resolution and maintenance of the functional integrity of the natural systems in Western Sydney may demand a major paradigm shift in economic and social policy. This research suggests that a precautionary based approach to thresholds of harm in the Western Sydney region is long overdue. Tools developed in this study appear capable of clarifying the evident land use planning paradoxes and may assist in negotiating sustainable outcomes by fostering a collaborative learning process between decision makers, experts and the community.
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Pudasaini, Madhu S., University of Western Sydney, of Science Technology and Environment College, and School of Engineering and Industrial Design. "Erosion modelling under different land use management practices." THESIS_CSTE_EID_Pudasaini_M.xml, 2003. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/721.

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Soil erosion has been recognised as a global threat against the sustainability of natural ecosystem. The work in this thesis has been undertaken to assist in combating this threat, and addresses the soil erosion issues associated with urban construction activities. The Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) was employed in this research work and the parameters associated with the model were calibrated. This model was chosen for calibration, as it has been proven to be an easy to use tool yet providing reasonable results. Large scale rainfall simulators developed at UWS were used for rainfall simulation at two sites with diverse soil types: dispersive clayey soils at Penrith and highly permeable sandy soil at Somersby (Both in New South Wales, Australia). It is concluded that RUSLE can be successfully used in single storms for erosion prediction. Calibrated values of RUSLE parameters are useful in predicting soil erosion from the construction sites in NSW. It is also identified that in rolled smooth land condition, clayey soils are more erodible than sandy soil. Specific support practices such as short grass strips, gravel bags and silt fences are identified as very effective erosion control measures in reducing soil erosion from 45% to 85%. These results will be very useful in soil erosion prediction planning and conservation management in NSW.
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Fourie, Clarissa Dorothy. "A new approach to the Zulu land tenure system: an historical anthropological explanation of the development of an informal settlement." Thesis, Rhodes University, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002661.

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Mgaga, an informal settlement in KwaZulu, south of Durban, on Cele-Zulu polity land, had an indigenous, albeit urban, system of Zulu land tenure in 1980. Mgaga's transformation, from an area with scattered homesteads in 1959 to an informal settlement, was linked to local and external factors. The external factors were, regional industrialisation, urbanisation and apartheid policies which involved, the division of South Africa into ethnically based 'homelands'; controlled Black access to 'White' cities; an urban management system for 'homeland' townships, like Umlazi township which abutted Mgaga. Umlazi's development and urban management system involved, the resettlement of members of the polity; the removal of their office bearers from their posts; and the phased building of the township; which caused cumulative effects in Mgaga. I link these external factors to the behaviour of Mgaga's residents, who transformed the area's land tenure system, by using Comaroff's dialectical model (1982), where the internal dialectic interacts with external factors to shape behaviour at the local level. I analyze the Zulu ethnography to show that the internal dialectic in Zulu social organisation, and in Mgaga, is centred around fission and integration; and that the integrating hierarchy associated with Zulu social organisation and the Zulu land tenure system is composed of groups with opposed interests in the same land. Within this hierarchy entrepreneurship and coalition formation influence the transfer of land rights. Also, rather than rules determining the transfer of land in the land tenure system, processes associated with the interaction of external factors with the internal dialectic, within terms of the cultural repertoire associated with the system, shape local behaviour; and the system's rules are manipulated within this cultural repertoire by individuals striving for gain. This results in different manifestations of the internal dialectic in the Zulu land tenure system, i.e. a range of variations in the Zulu land tenure system, including different local level kinship groups; a variety of terminology and rights held by office bearers; and communal and individualised land rights. The external factor of urbanisation interacted with the internal dialectic in Mgaga, manifested in terms of an ongoing izigodi (wards) dispute -including its boundaries, to shape residents' behaviour, so that some introduced an informal settlement and others resisted its geographical spread. This informal settlement development, where eventually purely residential land rights were transferred for cash to strangers by strangers, with no role for polity officials, was an urban variation of the Zulu land tenure system, because of the continued existence of the internal dialectic in Zulu social organisation in the local system, with the integration side being expressed by the community overrights. Characteristics found in Mgaga, such as kinship diminution; the individualisation and sale of land rights; and the ongoing influence of polities; are found elsewhere in Africa where informal settlements have developed on indigenous land tenure systems. Therefore the transformation of Mgaga's land tenure system to urban forms is not an isolated phenomenon, and my dialectical ransactional approach may have an applicability beyond the context of the Zulu land tenure system.
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Scotford, Eloise A. K. "The role of environmental principles in the decisions of the European Union courts and New South Wales Land and Environment Court." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:23d02748-1197-4f33-a6c6-b98fdbf7c5d1.

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The thesis is a comparative legal analysis of environmental principles in environmental law. Environmental principles are novel concepts in environmental law and they have a high profile in environmental law scholarship. This high profile is promoted by two factors – the high hopes that environmental law scholars have for environmental principles, and the increasing prevalence of environmental principles in legal systems, particularly in case law. This thesis analyses the latter, mapping doctrinal developments involving environmental principles in two jurisdictions and court systems – the courts of the European Union and the New South Wales Land and Environment Court. This doctrinal mapping has both narrow and broad aims. Narrowly, it identifies the legal roles in fact taken on by environmental principles within legal systems. Broadly, and building on this assessment, it responds to scholarly hopes that environmental principles (can) perform a range of significant roles in environmental law, including solving both environmental problems and legal problems in environmental law scholarship. These hopes are based on assumptions about environmental principles that have methodological weaknesses, including that environmental principles are universal and that they fit pre-existing models of ‘legal principles’ drawn from other areas of legal scholarship. The thesis exposes these methodological problems and concludes that environmental principles are not panaceas for pressing and perceived problems in environmental law. It does this by showing that the legal roles of environmental principles, which are significant in environmental law and its current evolution, can only be understood by closely analysing the legal cultures in which they feature. This is a conclusion for environmental law scholarship generally – while environmental issues and problems may be urgent and often global, legal analysis of the law that applies to those problems requires close engagement with legal systems and cultures, as they are and as they develop.
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Brown, Peter Robert, and n/a. "Pasture response following rabbit control on grazing land." University of Canberra. Resource & Environmental Science, 1993. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20061113.144813.

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The experiments described in this thesis were designed to assess changes in pasture dynamics (biomass and species composition of pasture) of grazing land on the Southern Tablelands of ACT and NSW, after 16 combinations of rabbit control treatments had been applied. The rabbit control performed by CSIRO Division of Wildlife and Ecology consisted of all combinations of presence-absence of Poisoning (using sodium monofluoroacetate, 1080: POIS), Ripping (ripping warrens using a tractor fitted with ripping tynes: RIP), Fumigation (pressure fumigation using chloropicrin: FUM) and repeated follow-up fumigation (using phostoxin pellets one, six and eighteen months after completion of the initial treatment: ANN). The pasture was assessed before treatments were applied, and every six months after rabbit control treatments. Treatment combinations were assigned randomly in a 24 factorial design on a total of 32 sites. There was a significant increase of pasture biomass at the RIP+ANN treatment at post-treatment sample 5. The analysis of covariance did not detect any other significant increase or decrease of pasture biomass for any rabbit control treatment, at any posttreatment sample. A significant increase of grass species occurred for the treatments of POIS+RIP+FUM, POIS and RIP+ANN for the post-treatment samples of 1, 3 and 5 respectively. There was a significant increase of thistles at the rabbit control treatments of POIS+RIP+FUM+ANN (post-treatment sample 1), RIP, ANN, RIP+FUM, RIP+FUM+ANN and POIS+RIP+FUM+ANN (post-treatment sample 3) and RIP and FUM+ANN (post-treatment sample 5). A significant increase of weeds occurred at FUM (post-treatment sample 3) and at FUM+ANN (post-treatment sample 5). No significant changes in the amount of herbs or legumes was apparent for any rabbit control treatment or post-treatment sample. There were no significant decreases for any species group. Except for the significant results for post-treatment sample 1, all significant increases of biomass for any species group occurred during spring (post-treatment sample 3 and 5) which suggests a growth phase during spring then subsequent dieback (particularly for thistles and weeds), as any change was not detected in the following autumn sample. No strong trend is evident for any particular rabbit control treatments, or any combination of treatments. Analysis of covariance revealed that the rabbit control treatment of RIP+ANN showed significant increases in both total biomass of pasture and grass biomass during post-treatment sample 5. This treatment reduced the number of active entrances the most. Significant positive correlations were found between pasture biomass (total) with grass, herb, legume, thistle and weed species groups. Significant negative correlations between grass biomass and the number of active entrances were found when the rabbit control had been highly effective in reducing the number of active entrances. When rabbit control had not been very successful, there was a significant positive but low correlation with the number of active entrances. There was no significant relationship between the number of active entrances with the weight of rabbit dung pellets. It is reasoned that they are different measures of rabbit abundance. More rabbit dung pellets were found closer to the warren than further away from the warren, but there was no correlation between rabbit dung and pasture biomass. Rainfall was above average for most of the experiment, biomass increased accordingly, and rabbit control was highly successful. The resulting changes in the pasture were difficult to detect, although some increases in species composition groups occurred. It is reasoned that the changes observed are partly attributable to seasonal conditions, and to high rainfall. Grazing by domestic animals, sheep and cattle, had been found to be consistent throughout the experiment.
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Cooper, Janice Elizabeth. "When fully improved : closer pastoral settlement in the western division of New South Wales." Phd thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/149737.

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This is a study of government sponsored closer settlement in the semi-arid and arid far west of New South Wales (NSW) since 1884. That year, the region was named the 'Western Division' for NSW land administration purposes. The study was inspired by disjuncture. First, disjuncture between the little that has been written about closer settlement in NSW and what I felt was its reality in the Division, in particular its acceptance of closer settlement without freeholding and commercial agriculture, hence my phrase 'closer pastoral settlement'. This was redistribution of land from one white person to another without expectation of a 'higher use'. Second, disjuncture between popular beliefs about the unpredictability of the western natural resource and the tough independence of landholders on the one hand, and evidence of bureaucratic controls and equity concepts, rural socialism, on the other. Third, between what varying government historical accounts of closer settlement there said, and what I knew to be the case, and finally, between what landholders and a Western Lands Commissioner in the 1980s argued to be the case and what I argue here. I trace the actions and motivations of political, legislative and bureaucratic actors prominent in the process from 1884 to 1985 and argue that closer settlement in the Division developed and displayed the characteristics of a 'policy paradigm', a deeply shared and accepted collection of concepts and tools wielded by politicians, bureaucrats, landholders, and courts, and particularly bureaucrats. All shared a vocabulary peculiar to it, each seeking benefit from it, hence its strength and persistence. Given the frequency with which land was redistributed to those already with land, the study suggests ways general descriptions of closer settlement in Australia warrant elaboration. The last two chapters examine the problems of what would replace the paradigm once the irrelevance of these controls and concepts became obvious when there was no more land to redistribute, and when there were wide concerns about over-allocation of land and loss of the natural resource. Concerns about the natural resource were raised throughout the period and though usually overwhelmed by the power of the closer settlement paradigm and the politics surrounding it, it is important to trace them. I argue that when bureaucrats and politicians finally responded, they simply tried to convert the tools of closer settlement into tools of conservation. These attempts to give old tools a green tinge were a failure. A completely new paradigm had to be created before landholders could drop old images and vocabulary and speak in new ways that encompassed grazing management for conservation. I identify the factors bringing about the change and show that they share features of policy paradigm change identified in political science theory. Necessary to it was the overturning of the 'research-extension' model of dissemination of scientific knowledge and technique to landholders, a model closely associated with colonialism. Necessary also was the creation of new ways for scientific personnel both inside and outside bureaucracy to engage with landholders, daring even to enter and influence day to day management. In clarifying the history, the study may assist in showing ways forward for rehabilitation and further encouragement of grazing management for conservation of pastures.
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Mulvaney, Mary. "Relationships with land : managing cultural landscapes in NSW national parks." Master's thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145269.

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Fitzhardinge, Guy, University of Western Sydney, College of Health and Science, and School of Natural Sciences. "Attitudes, values and behaviour : pastoralists, land use and landscape art in western New South Wales." 2008. http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/11678.

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The proximate causes of many of the environmental issues facing residents of the Western Division are well known. Inappropriate land use practices (intensity, duration and timing of grazing), total grazing pressure, poor knowledge of ecosystem fragility and seasonal variation are some of the issues that contribute to an actual or perceived degradation of the landscape. Many of the current practices are seemingly at odds with the attitudes and values of the wider community and also those of the pastoralists who carry out these practices. This thesis seeks to explain this apparent contradiction. The thesis is composed of four elements. The first element reviews historical (mostly European) thinking about nature and the relationship between nature and society and traces how this thinking has changed through time. The second element is a review of the history of land settlement and land use in the division, and shows how the development of the division followed contemporary societal attitudes and values. The third element is an examination of the portrayal of landscape in a western visual art tradition and how this has the potential to be used to reflect contemporary social attitudes and values. The fourth element involves the use of three projects that used art and text as a basis for investigating the attitudes and values of people in the Western Division. The findings of the research indicate that visual landscape has the potential to become an aid in the identification of community attitudes and values about the landscape in which they live. Further, this technique allows for the emergence of other factors such as individual identity and its accommodation within the behavioural framework. In accommodating such factors as individual identity, individual and social attitudes and values toward the environment in any discussion of behaviour in relation to the landscape and its use, a better understanding of the motives underlying behaviour will be gained. In so doing better decisions can be made by both pastoralists and land administrators. Further research is needed to verify the usefulness of these findings in both opening up a positive dialogue with landholders and administrators and in aligning pastoralists’ behaviour towards a more sustainable land use ethic.
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Farnill, Paul. "Possession, planning and control: Imperial and early Australian land policies as a cornerstone of New South Wales history, 1788-1855." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1310284.

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Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
The possession of land, its settlement and the means by which it was occupied, has been a vital determinant in the unfolding of NSW history and yet, in recent times, its importance has been neglected. Rather than a backdrop to a wider historical narrative, land policy in the years of the early governors was crucial to the way in which the colony grew and to the socio-economic and political structures that emerged. The possession of land and its regulation therefore formed a cornerstone on which the history of NSW was founded. This thesis revisits the early history of NSW and presents land use and ownership as a major theme. Britain’s imperial aspirations were instrumental in James Cook’s taking possession, on behalf of the British Crown, of the land along the continent’s eastern coastline in 1770. Cook’s claim intrinsically carried with it the associated dispossession of the indigenous population from that date. Land and its possession was prominent among the objectives of Arthur Phillip’s 1787 expedition to Botany Bay and is regarded by many historians as the prime reason for the colony’s existence. The selection of the site at Sydney Cove, the colonisation of Norfolk Island, Tasmania, New Zealand and the expansion across the entire continent were processes that unfolded at the confluence of British policies and the exigencies of colonial government. It was land that seeded the power of the NSW Corps officers and enabled them to achieve a monopoly on trade. It was their fear of losing land that ignited a rebellion by the same officers against a sitting governor. Land policy explains the colony’s original slow expansion and, once the confining barriers and restraining policies were breached, the rapid expansion of pastoral pursuits. Finally, land policy was a major cause of tension between the governors and the governed. It was a source of disquiet that tainted colonial politics and led to demands for, and the eventual achievement of, representative government. An examination of the land policies of both the British government and the early colonial governors Phillip to FitzRoy and the means by which different groups responded to those policies will shed fresh light on the physical, social and political growth of colonial New South Wales.
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Main, George Vindin. "Industrial earth : an ecology of rural place." Phd thesis, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/148564.

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Condon, Dick. Out of the west: Historical perspectives on the Western Division of New South Wales. [Mildura]: Rangeland Management Action Plan, 2002.

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Office, Great Britain Colonial. Emigration: Copies of reports made to the governors and councils of Canada, New Brunswick, and New South Wales. [London: HMSO, 2001.

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Place as occupational histories: An investigation of the deflated surface archaeological record of Pine Point and Langwell Stations, Western New South Wales, Australia. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, 2008.

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Great Britain. Colonial Office. Emigration: Return to an address of the Honourable the House of Commons, dated 23 March 1835, for, no. 1. Copies or extracts of any correspondence between the secretary of state and the governors of the British colonies, respecting emigration, not already presented to this House; no. 2. Return of the number of persons who have emigrated from Great Britain and Ireland, to the British colonies, and to the United States of America, during the years 1833 and 1834; distinguishing the ports from which they have sailed, and the countries to which emigration took place; no. 3. Relation of the number of agricultural labourers, who, with their families, have emigrated to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land; specifying the number of persons in each family, and the amount of assistance granted; no. 4. Return of the number of young unmarried females who have been assisted by government to emigrate to New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land ... [London: s.n., 2003.

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Mackay, David. A place of exile: The European settlement of New South Wales. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985.

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A place of exile: The European settlement of New South Wales. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1985.

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Strata title management practice in New South Wales. 4th ed. North Ryde, N.S.W: CCH Australia, 1985.

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Young, P. W. Contract for sale of land in New South Wales: A guide to the contract for sale of land in New South Wales including the 1982 standard form of contract approved by the Law Society of New South Wales and the Real Estate Institute of New South Wales. 2nd ed. Sydney: Butterworths, 1985.

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Butt, Peter. The standard contract for sale of land in New South Wales. 2nd ed. North Ryde, N.S.W: LBC Information Services, 1998.

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Butt, Peter. The standard contract for sale of land in New South Wales. North Ryde, N.S.W: Law Book Co., 1985.

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Matandirotya, Newton R., Dirk P. Cilliers, Roelof P. Burger, Christian Pauw, and Stuart J. Piketh. "Risks of Indoor Overheating in Low-Cost Dwellings on the South African Lowveld." In African Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, 1583–600. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-45106-6_123.

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AbstractThe South African Lowveld is a region of land that lies between 150 and 2000 m above sea level. In summer the region is characterized by the maximum mean daily ambient temperature of 32 °C. The purpose of the study was to characterize indoor thermal environments in low-cost residential dwellings during summer seasons as climate is changing. Indoor and ambient air temperature measurements were performed at a 30-min temporal resolution using Thermochron iButtons in the settlement of Agincourt. 58 free running low-cost residential dwellings were sampled over the summer seasons of 2016 and 2017. Complementary ambient air temperature data were sourced from the South African Weather Service (SAWS). Data were transformed into hourly means for further analysis. It was found that hourly maximum mean indoor temperatures ranged between 27 °C (daytime) and 23 °C (nighttime) for both living rooms and bedrooms in summer 2016 while in 2017, maximum mean indoor temperatures ranged between 29 °C (daytime) and 26 °C (nighttime) in living rooms and bedrooms. Pearson correlations showed a positive association between indoor and ambient temperatures ranging between r = 0.40 (daytime) and r = 0.90 (nighttime). The association is weak to moderate during daytime because occupants apply other ventilation practices that reduce the relationship between indoor and ambient temperatures. The close association between nighttime ambient and indoor temperature can also be attributed to the effect of urban heat island as nighttime ambient temperature remain elevated; thus, influencing indoor temperatures also remain high. These findings highlight the potential threat posed by a rise in temperatures for low-cost residential dwellings occupants due to climate change. Furthermore, the high level of sensitiveness of dwellings to ambient temperature changes also indicates housing envelopes that have poor thermal resistance to withstand the Lowveld region’s harsh extreme heat conditions, especially during summer. The study findings suggest that a potential risk of indoor overheating exists in low-cost dwellings on the South African Lowveld as the frequency and intensity of heat waves rise. There is therefore a need to develop immediate housing adaptation interventions that mitigate against the projected ambient temperature rise for example through thermal insulation retrofits on the existing housing stock and passive housing designs for new housing stock.
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Pickard, John. "Land management in semi-arid environments of New South Wales." In Vegetation and climate interactions in semi-arid regions, 191–208. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3264-0_15.

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Burkett, Melanie. "Land, Labour, and the Economic Development of New South Wales." In Opposing Australia’s First Assisted Immigrants, 1832-42, 91–125. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84920-7_4.

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Pressey, R. L. "Land classifications are necessary for conservation planning but what do they tell us about fauna?" In Future of the Fauna of Western New South Wales, 31–41. P.O. Box 20, Mosman NSW 2088, Australia: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/rzsnsw.1994.003.

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Dunkerley, David L. "Vegetation Mosaics of Arid Western New South Wales, Australia: Considerations of Their Origin and Persistence." In Patterns of Land Degradation in Drylands, 315–45. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5727-1_12.

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Pearlman, M. L. "The Land and Environment Court of New South Wales a Model for Environmental Protection." In Environmental Challenges, 395–407. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4369-1_31.

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Alimardanian, Mahnaz. "Burnt Woman of the Mission: Gender and Horror in an Aboriginal Settlement in Northern New South Wales." In Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond, 93–108. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137448651_6.

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Prest, James. "The forgotten forests: the regulation of forestry on private land in New South Wales 1997-2002." In Conservation of Australia's Forest Fauna, 297–330. P.O. Box 20, Mosman NSW 2088: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.7882/fs.2004.019.

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White, Rob. "Eco-Justice and Destructive Mining in Australia: Lessons from the New South Wales Land and Environmental Court." In Illegal Mining, 529–58. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46327-4_19.

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Johnston, H. "The Willandra Lakes Region World Heritage Area, New South Wales, Australia: Land Use Planning and Management of Aboriginal and Archaeological Heritage." In Archaeological Dimension of World Heritage, 39–55. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0283-5_4.

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Conference papers on the topic "Land settlement New South Wales"

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Radoll, Peter, Sebastian Fleissner, Duncan Stevenson, and Henry Gardner. "Improving ICT support for aboriginal land councils in New South Wales." In the Sixth International Conference. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2517899.2517916.

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Fogarty, Karin, Marit Kragt, and Benedict White. "Pre- and post-mine land-use trends across the New South Wales and Queensland coal industry." In 13th International Conference on Mine Closure. Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.36487/acg_rep/1915_74_fogarty.

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Savings Bank of New South Wales - Sydney (Head Office) - Mortgage (Investment) Department - Legal Documents - Land Release, John Austin to Thomas Wylde - 2 September 1824. Reserve Bank of Australia, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47688/rba_archives_2006/21213.

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Savings Bank of New South Wales - Sydney (Head Office) - Mortgage (Investment) Department - Legal Documents - Land Release, George John Rogers to Samuel Augustus Perry - 22 October 1835. Reserve Bank of Australia, March 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.47688/rba_archives_2007/10446.

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