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Boland, Peter J., and Neil R. Parker. "Q fever in south west Queensland." Medical Journal of Australia 171, no. 8 (October 1999): 446. http://dx.doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1999.tb123737.x.
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Cosgrove, J. L. "SOUTH-WEST QUEENSLAND GAS — A RESOURCE FOR THE FUTURE." APPEA Journal 27, no. 1 (1987): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj86020.
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Natural gas has been discovered in 22 fields in the Central Eromanga and Cooper Basins of southwestern Queensland in the area comprised by ATP 259P. Proved, probable and possible reserves in excess of 36 × 109 m3 (1.27 TCF) are located in four discrete structural provinces. Fluvial sandstones of the Early Permian Patchawarra Formation and Late Permian Toolachee Formation contain the majority of the reserves. Minor amounts of gas are reservoired in the Early Permian Epsilon Formation, the Early-Middle Triassic Nappamerri Formation and the Early Jurassic Hutton Sandstone and Birkhead Formation. Considerable gas-liquids reserves are also found in these reservoirs.Existing reserves are located primarily in structural traps although lithofacies variations are widely recognised, particularly in the Patchawarra Formation, indicating both new play opportunities and difficulties in assessing the undiscovered gas potential of the permit. Additional gas potential is identified in flank areas of the more prominent structural axes such as the Jackson-Wackett-Innamincka Trend in fault-bounded, pinchout and sub-unconformity trapping configurations.More than 200 prospects and leads are identified with the potential to entrap approximately 51 × 109 m3 (1.80 TCF) of gas on an unrisked basis. When combined with reserves from established fields, the ultimate potential of the ATP is assessed as 87 × 109 m3 (8.10 TCF).Despite the very high success rate of previous exploration and appraisal programs, the ultimate gas potential of the Queensland portion of both the Cooper and Eromanga Basins has been only partially addressed. Exploration and appraisal programs providing future additions to proved and probable reserves are considered low risk and are dependent upon an agreement with the Queensland government that would enable the ATP holders to produce and sell gas interstate.
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Robinson, Richard G. "SURFACE FACILITIES FOR THE SOUTH WEST QUEENSLAND GAS PROJECT." APPEA Journal 34, no. 1 (1994): 55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj93004.
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The South West Queensland Gas Project is the first greenfield gas development in the Cooper Basin for around 10 years. This has allowed a decade of operating experience from wet gas fields in the region to be applied in the design of the new facility. The design also took into consideration potential future expansion of the facility for increased throughput and the production of sales gas to service markets to the east and north.A greenfield hydrocarbon development in such a remote location is much more than just a gathering system and processing facility. A full range of infrastructure was also developed including telecommunications, roads, airstrip, accommodation and utilities.The project offered opportunities for a wide variety of Australian vendors and construction contractors. Many demonstrated a high level of capability to meet the cost, schedule and quality demands of a hydrocarbon development in the 1990s. Unfortunately, a number failed to demonstrate that capability.
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Lis, Jerzy A. "A revision of Australian species of the genus Macroscytus Fieber (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Cydnidae)." Insect Systematics & Evolution 29, no. 4 (1998): 459–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631298x00078.
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AbstractA revision of Australian species of the genus Macroscytus Fieber is presented, including descriptions of eight new species: M. annulipoides (Queensland), M. arnhemicus (Queensland, Northern Territory), M. australoides (South Australia), M. bisetosus (Queensland), M. glaberrimus (Queensland), M. minimus (Queensland), M. monteithi (Queensland), and M. pseudaustralis (Western Australia). M. dilatatus (Signoret, 1881) is synonymized with M. piceus (West-wood, 1837). A key for the determination of all Australian species of the genus is provided.
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Orr, DM, CJ Evenson, DJ Jordan, PS Bowly, KJ Lehane, and DC Cowan. "Sheep productivity in an Astrebla grassland of south-west Queensland." Rangeland Journal 10, no. 1 (1988): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9880039.
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A grazing study conducted between 1979 and 1983 assessed the seasonal trends of ewe productivity in Astrebla grassland in south- western Queensland. This study was designed originally to compare productivity on two pastures with different compositions, however, these differences in pastures composition were not achieved. Large differences in liveweight, wool growth and reproductive performance occurred between years in response to differences in pasture growth resulting from large variation in the seasonal incidence of rainfall. Rainfall effective for plant growth, both forbs and grasses, resulted in a high quality diet which resulted, in turn, in increased sheep productivity. Reproductive performance was particularly sensitive to the quality of the ewes diet around the time of lambing through the effect of diet quality on lamb survival and growth rate. It is suggested that the effect of rainfall on reproductive performance is pasture.
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Waudby, H. P., and T. How. "An additional record of the dusky hopping mouse Notomys fuscus in South Australia." Australian Mammalogy 30, no. 1 (2008): 47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am08006.
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The dusky hopping mouse (Notomys fuscus) is present in the arid areas of South Australian, north-west New South Wales and south-west Queensland. In October-November 2007 during the seventh year of annual fauna monitoring on the Beverley mine lease, north of Lake Frome, 4 animals were detected. The closest known population is 70 km north-east. Heavy rainfall earlier in the year may have contributed to their presence.
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Bennett, D. G., R. S. Heath, and S. Taylor. "THE STOKES GAS FIELD, SOUTHWEST QUEENSLAND." APPEA Journal 35, no. 1 (1995): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj94001.
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The Stokes gas field is located in South West Queensland permit ATP 259P, close to the South Australia/Queensland state border. It was discovered and successfully appraised by the Stokes-1,-2 and -3 wells drilled during 1993 and early 1994. Productive zones, with DST flow rates of up to 237 x 103m3/d, are present in the Early Permian Epsilon and Patchawarra formations with moderate gas liquids contents present in the higher reservoirs. A total net pay thickness of 63 m occurs in Stokes-2. Generally, reservoir quality is moderate to good with core permeabilities occasionally exceeding one darcy. Some low deliverability Patchawarra Formation reservoirs are present which contain greater than 20 per cent kaolin. These microporous reservoirs are characterised by low resistivity responses similar to that of water saturated reservoirs.The field's discovery coincided with the onset of renewed South West Queensland gas exploration. Seismic data were recorded in 1990 and 1992 to mature the Stokes prospect to drillable status. The structure had been recognised as being highly prospective due to its regional setting. Proved and probable gas-in-place exceeds 5.7 x 109 m3 which approximates the highside case estimated from pre-drill probabilistic reserves distributions.Comprehensive reservoir pressure data were obtained from each well and were instrumental in locating appraisal wells and demonstrating that reservoirs are filled to the structural spill point. The Stokes-3 results indicate that some fault compartmentalisation may occur suggesting a more complex structure than originally mapped. Isolation of other reservoirs may also occur between Stokes-1 and -2.
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John, B. H., and C. S. Almond. "LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY OF THE LOWER EROMANGA BASIN SEQUENCE IN SOUTH WEST QUEENSLAND." APPEA Journal 27, no. 1 (1987): 196. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj86017.
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Five fully-cored and wire-line logged stratigraphic bores have been drilled by the Queensland Department of Mines, relatively close to producing oil fields in the Eromanga Basin, south-west Queensland. Correlations between the stratigraphic bores and petroleum wells have established lithologic control in an area where lithostratigraphy is interpreted mainly from wire-line logs. The Eromanga Basin sequence below the Wallumbilla Formation has been investigated, and a uniform lithostratigraphic nomenclature has been applied; in the past, an inconsistent nomenclature system was applied in different petroleum wells.Accumulation of the Eromanga Basin sequence was initiated in the early Jurassic by major epeirogenic downwarping; in the investigation area the pre-Eromanga Basin surface consists mainly of rocks comprising the Thargomindah Shelf and the Cooper Basin. The lower Eromanga Basin sequence in the area onlaps the Thargomindah Shelf and thickens relatively uniformly to the north-west. The sequence comprises mainly Jurassic/Cretaceous terrestrial units in which vertical and lateral distribution is predominantly facies-controlled. These are uniformly overlain by the mainly paralic Cadna-owie Formation, signalling the initiation of a major Cretaceous transgression over the basin.The terrestrial sequence over most of the area comprises alternating coarser and finer-grained sedimentary rocks, reflecting major cyclical changes in the energy of the depositional environment. The Hutton Sandstone, Adori Sandstone and 'Namur Sandstone Member' of the Hooray Sandstone comprise mainly sandstone, and reflect high energy fluvial depositional environments. Lower energy fluvial and lacustrine conditions are reflected by the finer-grained sandstone, siltstone and mudstone of the Birkhead and Westbourne Formations, and 'Murta Member' of the Hooray Sandstone. Similar minor cycles are represented in the 'basal Jurassic' unit. The Algebuckina Sandstone, recognised only in the far south-west of the investigation area, comprises mainly fluvial sandstones.
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Winters, T. A. "CASE STUDY OF ABORIGINAL INVOLVEMENT AND ISSUES—SOUTH WEST QUEENSLAND PIPELINE." APPEA Journal 37, no. 1 (1997): 626. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj96043.
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The South West Queensland Pipeline project has set a new benchmark for Aboriginal involvement in corridor project planning and construction in Australia.Before the final pipeline alignment was decided, Tenneco Energy Australia (now Epic Energy), the Queensland Government and the Goolburri Aboriginal Corporation Land Council arranged for Aboriginal Researchers to conduct a foot survey along a 200 in wide corridor for the full 756 km of the pipeline route. The final alignment was selected to avoid all cultural heritage sites identified by the Aboriginal Researchers.At the commencement of the construction phase, a Cultural Heritage Management Plan (CHMP) covering construction activities was developed. Key components were as follows:Goolburri Aboriginal Corporation Land Council engaged as a service provider to provide Aboriginal Researchers, a Cultural Heritage Management Officer (CHMO), and an auditor for the project;Four Aboriginal monitors to be present on the project during clear, grade and trenching activities;An archaeologist to be present on the project to coordinate Aboriginal monitoring and cultural heritage management activities;A cultural heritage management audit to be conducted at the end of each four-week work cycle to identify non-conformances with the CHMP and recommend improvements;Cultural awareness training to be undertaken by the workforce and presented by Aboriginal representatives; andInstant dismissal provisions for serious infringements of the CHMP.The cultural heritage clearance process and the CHMP were probably the most extensive ever implemented for a pipeline project in Australia in terms of the extent and nature of Aboriginal involvement. Despite this, there was ongoing concern about whether the appropriate Aboriginal groups were being involved in the project. Cultural heritage management of the project became linked to the question of traditional association with the land and native title rights. Disparate views about the rights of different Aboriginal groups continually emerged.Of particular note was a tribal boundary dispute which resulted in prematurely closing down the first cycle of construction and leapfrogging the 108 km stretch under dispute to provide Aboriginal groups with time to resolve the issue. This action directly resulted in additional project costs (construction rescheduling and backtracking crews) in the order of $5 million.This case study will look particularly at:the process of cultural clearance and cultural heritage management which evolved for the project;issues associated with establishing appropriate Aboriginal representation for involvement in the project;native title claims; andsuggestions for improving management of native title, cultural heritage and Aboriginal involvement issues for future projects.
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Dixon, William, and Barry Chiswell. "Isotopic study of alluvial groundwaters, south-west lockyer valley, queensland, australia." Hydrological Processes 8, no. 4 (July 1994): 359–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp.3360080408.
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Bradd Witt, G., Jon Luly, and Russell J. Fairfax. "How the west was once: vegetation change in south-west Queensland from 1930 to 1995." Journal of Biogeography 33, no. 9 (September 2006): 1585–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2006.01531.x.
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McKay, Belinda. "Imagining the Hinterland: Literary Representations of Southeast Queensland Beyond the Brisbane Line." Queensland Review 12, no. 1 (January 2005): 59–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600003913.
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Southeast Queensland — the region encompassing Coolangatta and the McPherson Range to the south, Cooloola and the Blackall Range to the north, and the Great Dividing Range to the west — represents one of Queensland's most significant literary landscapes. For millennia, this area — defined by mountains and waterways — contained important gathering places for ceremonies and trade, and its inhabitants elaborated the meaning of the landscape in a rich complex of stories and other cultural practices such as the bunya festivals. Colonisation disrupted but did not obliterate these cultural associations, which remain alive in the oral traditions of local Aboriginal people and, in more recent times, have surfaced in the work of writers like Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Sam Watson.
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Hoyle, G. L., K. J. Steadman, M. I. Daws, and S. W. Adkins. "Physiological dormancy in forbs native to south–west Queensland: Diagnosis and classification." South African Journal of Botany 74, no. 2 (April 2008): 208–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2007.11.005.
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Morwood, M. J., and L. Godwin. "Archaeology of the Gyranda region, Dawson River, central Queensland." Queensland Archaeological Research 4 (January 1, 1987): 96–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/qar.4.1987.174.
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This paper presents the results of survey and excavation in the upper Dawson area of the Central Queensland Sandstone Belt, a sandstone-dominated environment bounded by the townships of Banana in the east, Blackall in the west, Springsure in the north and Injune in the south, and which includes the Central Queensland Highlands (Walsh 1984:1). The work was undertaken as part of the environmental impact study for the Gyranda Weir commissioned by Cameron McNamara for the Queensland Water Resources Commission (Morwood 1985, 1986; Godwin 1985). However, the results of the study, and the potential of the area for future research, have a wider interest.
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PERKINS, PHILIP D. "A revision of the Australian humicolous and hygropetric water beetle genus Tympanogaster Perkins, and comparative morphology of the Meropathina (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)." Zootaxa 1346, no. 1 (October 30, 2006): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1346.1.1.
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The Australian endemic humicolous and hygropetric water beetle genus Tympanogaster Perkins, 1979, is revised, based on the study of 7,280 specimens. The genus is redescribed, and redescriptions are provided for T. cornuta (Janssens), T. costata (Deane), T. deanei Perkins, T. macrognatha (Lea), T. novicia (Blackburn), T. obcordata (Deane), T. schizolabra (Deane), and T. subcostata (Deane). Lectotypes are designated for Ochthebius labratus Deane, 1933, and Ochthebius macrognathus Lea, 1926. Ochthebius labratus Deane, 1933, is synonymized with Ochthebius novicius Blackburn, 1896. Three new subgenera are described: Hygrotympanogaster new subgenus (type species Tympanogaster (Hygrotympanogaster) maureenae new species; Topotympanogaster new subgenus (type species Tympanogaster (Topotympanogaster) crista new species; and Plesiotympanogaster new genus (type species Tympanogaster (Plesiotympanogaster) thayerae new species. Seventy-six new species are described, and keys to the subgenera, species groups, and species are given. High resolution digital images of all primary types are presented (online version in color), and geographic distributions are mapped. Male genitalia, representative spermathecae and representative mouthparts are illustrated. Scanning electron micrographs of external morphological characters of adults and larvae are presented. Selected morphological features of the other members of the subtribe Meropathina, Meropathus Enderlein and Tympallopatrum Perkins, are illustrated and compared with those of Tympanogaster. Species of Tympanogaster are typically found in the relict rainforest patches in eastern Australia. Most species have very limited distributions, and relict rainforest patches often have more than one endemic species. The only species currently known from the arid center of Australia, T. novicia, has the widest distribution pattern, ranging into eastern rainforest patches. There is a fairly close correspondence between subgenera and microhabitat preferences. Members of Tympanogaster (s. str.) live in the splash zone, usually on stream boulders, or on bedrock stream margins. The majority of T. (Hygrotympanogaster) species live in the hygropetric zone at the margins of waterfalls, or on steep rockfaces where water is continually trickling; a few rare species have been collected from moss in Nothofagus rainforests. Species of T. (Plesiotympanogaster) have been found in both hygropetric microhabitats and in streamside moss. The exact microhabitats of T. (Topotympanogaster) are unknown, but the morphology of most species suggests non-aquatic habits; most specimens have been collected in humicolous microhabitats, by sifting rainforest debris, or were taken in flight intercept traps. Larvae of hygropetric species are often collected with adults. These larvae have tube-like, dorsally positioned, mesothoracic spiracles that allow the larvae to breathe while under a thin film of water. The key morphological differences between larvae of Tympanogaster (s. str.) and those of Tympanogaster (Hygrotympanogaster) are illustrated. New species of Tympanogaster are: T. (s. str.) aldinga (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek), T. (s. str.) amaroo (New South Wales, Back Creek, downstream of Moffatt Falls), T. (s. str.) ambigua (Queensland, Cairns), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) arcuata (New South Wales, Kara Creek, 13 km NEbyE of Jindabyne), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) atroargenta (Victoria, Possum Hollow falls, West branch Tarwin River, 5.6 km SSW Allambee), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) barronensis (Queensland, Barron Falls, Kuranda), T. (s. str.) bluensis (New South Wales, Blue Mountains), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) bondi (New South Wales, Bondi Heights), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) bryosa (New South Wales, New England National Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) buffalo (Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) canobolas (New South Wales, Mount Canobolas Park), T. (s. str.) cardwellensis (Queensland, Cardwell Range, Goddard Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) cascadensis (New South Wales, Cascades Campsite, on Tuross River), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) clandestina (Victoria, Grampians National Park, Golton Gorge, 7.0 km W Dadswells Bridge), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) clypeata (Victoria, Grampians National Park, Golton Gorge, 7.0 km W Dadswells Bridge), T. (s. str.) cooloogatta (New South Wales, New England National Park, Five Day Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) coopacambra (Victoria, Beehive Falls, ~2 km E of Cann Valley Highway on 'WB Line'), T. (Topotympanogaster) crista (Queensland, Mount Cleveland summit), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) cudgee (New South Wales, New England National Park, 0.8 km S of Pk. Gate), T. (s. str.) cunninghamensis (Queensland, Main Range National Park, Cunningham's Gap, Gap Creek), T. (s. str.) darlingtoni (New South Wales, Barrington Tops), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) decepta (Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park), T. (s. str.) dingabledinga (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek, upstream from Coachwood Falls), T. (s. str.) dorrigoensis (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek, upstream from Coachwood Falls), T. (Topotympanogaster) dorsa (Queensland, Windin Falls, NW Mount Bartle-Frere), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) duobifida (Victoria, 0.25 km E Binns, Hill Junction, adjacent to Jeeralang West Road, 4.0 km S Jeerelang), T. (s. str.) eungella (Queensland, Finch Hatton Gorge), T. (Topotympanogaster) finniganensis (Queensland, Mount Finnigan summit), T. (s. str.) foveova (New South Wales, Border Ranges National Park, Brindle Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) grampians (Victoria, Grampians National Park, Epacris Falls, 2.5 km WNW Halls Gap), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) gushi (New South Wales, Mount Canobolas Park), T. (s. str.) hypipamee (Queensland, Mount Hypipamee National Park, Barron River headwaters below Dinner Falls), T. (s. str.) illawarra (New South Wales, Macquarie Rivulet Falls, near Wollongong), T. (Topotympanogaster) intricata (Queensland, Mossman Bluff Track, 5–10 km W Mossman), T. (s. str.) jaechi (Queensland, Running Creek, along road between Mount Chinghee National Park and Border Ranges National Park), T. (Topotympanogaster) juga (Queensland, Mount Lewis summit), T. kuranda (Queensland, Barron Falls, Kuranda), T. (s. str.) lamingtonensis (Queensland, Lamington National Park, Lightening Creek), T. (s. str.) magarra (New South Wales, Border Ranges National Park, Brindle Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) maureenae (New South Wales, Back Creek, Moffatt Falls, ca. 5 km W New England National Park boundary), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) megamorpha (Victoria, Possum Hollow falls, W br. Tarwin River, 5.6 km SSW Allambee), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) merrijig (Victoria, Merrijig), T. (s. str.) millaamillaa (Queensland, Millaa Millaa), T. modulatrix (Victoria, Talbot Creek at Thomson Valley Road, 4.25 km WSW Beardmore), T. (Topotympanogaster) monteithi (Queensland, Mount Bartle Frere), T. moondarra (New South Wales, Border Ranges National Park, Brindle Creek), T. (s. str.) mysteriosa (Queensland), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) nargun (Victoria, Deadcock Den, on Den of Nargun Creek, Mitchell River National Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) newtoni (Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park), T. (s. str.) ovipennis (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek, upstream from Coachwood Falls), T. (s. str.) pagetae (New South Wales, Back Creek, downstream of Moffatt Falls), T. (Topotympanogaster) parallela (Queensland, Mossman Bluff Track, 5–10 km W Mossman), T. (s. str.) perpendicula (Queensland, Mossman Bluff Track, 5–10 km W Mossman), T. plana (Queensland, Cape Tribulation), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) porchi (Victoria, Tarra-Bulga National Park, Tarra Valley Road, 1.5 km SE Tarra Falls), T. (s. str.) precariosa (New South Wales, Leycester Creek, 4 km. S of Border Ranges National Park), T. (s. str.) protecta (New South Wales, Leycester Creek, 4 km. S of Border Ranges National Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) punctata (Victoria, Mount Buffalo National Park, Eurobin Creek), T. (s. str.) ravenshoensis (Queensland, Ravenshoe State Forest, Charmillan Creek, 12 km SE Ravenshoe), T. (s. str.) robinae (New South Wales, Back Creek, downstream of Moffatt Falls), T. (s. str.) serrata (Queensland, Natural Bridge National Park, Cave Creek), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) spicerensis (Queensland, Spicer’s Peak summit), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) storeyi (Queensland, Windsor Tableland), T. (Topotympanogaster) summa (Queensland, Mount Elliott summit), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) tabula (New South Wales, Mount Canobolas Park), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) tallawarra (New South Wales, Dorrigo National Park, Rosewood Creek, Cedar Falls), T. (s. str.) tenax (New South Wales, Salisbury), T. (Plesiotympanogaster) thayerae (Tasmania, Liffey Forest Reserve at Liffey River), T. (s. str.) tora (Queensland, Palmerston National Park), T. trilineata (New South Wales, Sydney), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) truncata (Queensland, Tambourine Mountain), T. (s. str.) volata (Queensland, Palmerston National Park, Learmouth Creek, ca. 14 km SE Millaa Millaa), T. (Hygrotympanogaster) wahroonga (New South Wales, Wahroonga), T. (s. str.) wattsi (New South Wales, Blicks River near Dundurrabin), T. (s. str.) weiri (New South Wales, Allyn River, Chichester State Forest), T. (s. str.) wooloomgabba (New South Wales, New England National Park, Five Day Creek).
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Brooker, MIH, and AR Bean. "Two new Ironbarks and a new Bloodwood (Eucalyptus, Myrtaceae) from Queensland." Brunonia 10, no. 2 (1987): 189. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/bru9870189.
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Two new ironbarks of the informal Eucalyptus series Crebrae Brooker, E. exilipes and E. xanthoclada, and a new bloodwood of the informal E. section Rufaria Pryor & Johnson, E. lamprophylla, are described. The three species occur in north Queensland, centred on the Pentland area south-west of Townsville.
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Beveridge, I., T. H. Cribb, and S. C. Cutmore. "Larval trypanorhynch cestodes in teleost fish from Moreton Bay, Queensland." Marine and Freshwater Research 68, no. 11 (2017): 2123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/mf17010.
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During a helminthological examination of teleost fish of Moreton Bay (Qld, Australia), 976 fish from 13 orders, 57 families and 133 species were examined and nine species of trypanorhynch metacestodes were identified. Callitetrarhynchus gracilis (Rudolphi, 1819) was the most frequently encountered species, found in 16 species of fish, with Callitetrarhynchus speciosus (Linton, 1897), Pterobothrium pearsoni (Southwell, 1929), Otobothrium alexanderi Palm, 2004, Otobothrium mugilis Hiscock, 1954, Otobothrium parvum Beveridge & Justine, 2007, Proemotobothrium southwelli Beveridge & Campbell, 2001, Pseudotobothrium dipsacum (Linton, 1897) and Heteronybelinia cf. heteromorphi Palm, 1999 occurring in fewer host species and at lower prevalences. Comparisons are made with studies elsewhere in the world and specifically within the South-west Pacific. Of the best studied regions in the South-west Pacific (Heron Island, Lizard Island, New Caledonia and now Moreton Bay), the fauna from Moreton Bay was found to be the most distinctive, with fauna from the three reef locations sharing 35–48% of species between sites and just 12–24% with Moreton Bay. The fauna of trypanorhynch cestodes from Lizard Island and New Caledonia was found to be the most similar.
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Lambkin, KJ. "Revision of the Australian scorpion-fly genus Harpobittacus (Mecoptera : Bittacidae)." Invertebrate Systematics 8, no. 4 (1994): 767. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/it9940767.
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Harpobittacus Gerstaecker is the largest of the six genera of Australian Bittacidae. Adults occur in eastern, south-eastern and south-western Australian eucalypt woodland and coastal heathland during spring and summer and sometimes autumn. The genus contains 11 species, which are diagnosed in the present revision: H. australis (Klug) [= australis rubripes Riek, syn. nov., = corethrarius (Rambur), = intermedius (Selys-Longchamps)] (south-east Australia, including Tasmania); H. albatus Riek, stat. nov. (= limnaeus Smithers, syn. nov.) (coastal eastern Australia); H. christine, sp. nov. (inland south-east Queensland); H. tillyardi Esben-Petersen ( = nigratus Navás) (coastal eastern Australia); H. rubricatus Riek (inland south-east Australia); H. scheibeli Esben-Petersen (= brewerae Smithers, syn. nov.) (inland and coastal eastern Australia); H. septentrionis, sp. nov. (coastal north Queensland); H. nigriceps (Selys-Longchamps) (mainland south-east Australia); H. similis Esben-Petersen, H. quasisimilis, sp. nov., and H. phaeoscius Riek (all south-west Western Australia). Cladistic analysis has produced the following hypothesis of relationships: (((australis (albatus christine)) (tillyardi rubricatus)) ((similis quasisimilis) ((scheibeli septentrionis) (nigriceps phaeoscius))). Immediate sister-species show little or no overlap in their geographic distributions.
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Wilson, Gary W., Fanie Venter, Robyn F. Wilson, and Darren Crayn. "Chasing Nepenthes on Cape York, Queensland." Carnivorous Plant Newsletter 40, no. 4 (December 1, 2011): 122–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.55360/cpn404.gw751.
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Little is known of the distribution, status and systematics of Nepenthes in the Austro-Papuan region and there is some confusion about the number of species present (Clarke & Kruger 2006). A project currently being conducted by staff and students of the Australian Tropical Herbarium and James Cook University in Cairns, Queensland and Monash University, Sunway Campus, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is seeking to redress the situation. The study area extends from northern Queensland across the lowlands of the Trans-Fly Ecoregion in Papua New Guinea and West Papua, Indonesia, in the area south of Young’s Line. This line delineates the northern margin of the Australia plate and the area is often contiguous when sea levels are lower, most recently c. 8000 years BP (see Figure 1).
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Cockfield, Geoff, Linda Courtenay Botterill, and Simon Kelly. "A prospective evaluation of contingent loans as a means of financing wild dog exclusion fences." Rangeland Journal 40, no. 6 (2018): 591. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj18054.
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Invasive species, such as wild dogs can be considered an externality arising from the activities of pastoral enterprises, with producers having limited responsibility for the problem and limited capacity to mitigate it. There are therefore arguments for government intervention through encouraging both individual and collective control measures. Governments are however increasingly inclined to ensure recipients of support make some contribution where there are private benefits. An example of this, in Australia, is the requirement that students repay some of the cost of their tertiary education. Using the issue of wild dog exclusion fencing in south-west Queensland as a case study, this paper considers if and how a policy instrument adopted for higher education (HECS-HELP), contingent loans, could be adapted to address problems of externalities in rural Australia. Central to the issue of exclusion fences are high upfront costs and highly variable incomes that limit the ability to recoup those costs according to a predictable timeline. Considering a range of incomes and a variety of private/government shares of the cost of the fences, we examine the effects of revenue contingent loans for the construction of these fences, using model farms developed from survey data for farm businesses in south-west Queensland. We find that contingent loans could mitigate the hardship effects of additional debt and variable incomes. Businesses with smaller properties and relatively lower incomes may however struggle to pay back larger loans. Using south-west Queensland as a case study, we show how different shares of contributions change the time to pay back loans, outline how a contingent loan scheme might be administered and note some issues with integrating personal contingent loans into a collective fence arrangement.
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Westaway, Michael C., Douglas Williams, Kelsey Lowe, Nathan J. Wright, Ray Kerkhove, Jennifer Silcock, Joshua Gorringe, et al. "Hidden in plain sight: the archaeological landscape of Mithaka Country, south-west Queensland." Antiquity 95, no. 382 (June 16, 2021): 1043–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.31.
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Pegler, Lachlan, Renée Moore, and Delphine Bentley. "Bore drain replacement in south-west Queensland: benefits and costs for land managers." Rangeland Journal 24, no. 2 (2002): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj02010.
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The Bore Drain Replacement Project (BDRP) in south-west Queensland provided government subsidies to land managers to convert water distribution systems from open earth bore drains to piped water systems, thereby addressing Great Artesian Basin (GAB) sustainability issues. To fully evaluate the benefits and costs of the project for land managers, both a financial benefit-cost analysis and a study of land managers' perceptions were conducted. The main benefit for land managers from bore drain replacement, was a substantial decrease in operating costs (mean decrease of 87%). Results of the financial benefit-cost analysis showed that the mean private benefit to total cost ratio (BP:CT) (0.86, at a real discount rate of 6%, over 10 years) was less than the break-even value of unity . The mean BP:CT (0.6) for land managers with less than 50% of bore drains on mulga (Acacia aneura F. Muell ex. Benth) land systems was also less than unity, while those land managers with bore drains predominately on mulga land systems had a mean BP:CT that only marginally exceeded unity (1.1). With a government subsidy (study mean 72%), the private benefits to private cost ratio (BP:CP), averaged across all land managers in the study, was 2.25. The break-even subsidy level for land managers was calculated as 17% of the total capital cost. Land managers perceived a number of important benefits from bore drain replacement that were not included in the financial benefit-cost analysis, due to difficulty quantifying values. These included benefits from changes in grazing management, increased time-savings and an improved quality of life. In general, there were no changes documented in animal productivity, native and feral animal populations, or carrying capacity in the 18 months since piping, although potential changes for the future were identified. Some land managers noted improvements to natural resource condition near bore drains after closure, while most expected little deterioration in natural resource condition near the new water points. Recommendations are made for ongoing funding support for bore drain replacement, including further monitoring and evaluation, with emphasis on conducting an economic public and private benefit-cost analysis. Land managers' capacity to pay, willingness to adopt change and public benefits of the project should be considered in cost sharing arrangements and determination of future government subsidy levels.
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Johnston, PW, PR Tannock, and IF Beale. "Objective `Safe' Grazing Capacities for South-West Queensland Australia: Model Application and Evaluation." Rangeland Journal 18, no. 2 (1996): 259. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9960259.
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This paper describes the employment of two experienced graziers as consultants to apply and evaluate a model for calculating 'safe' long-term grazing capacities of individual properties. The model was based on ecological principles and entailed estimates of average annual forage grown (kglha) on the different land systems on each property and the calculation of the number of livestock (dry sheep equivalents, DSE) required to 'safely' utilise this forage. The grazier consultants applied and evaluated the 'safe' grazing capacity model on 20 properties of their choosing. For evaluation, model results were compared with; (a) the Department of Lands rated carrying capacities for those properties and (b) the grazing capacity assessed independently by the owners of those properties. For the 20 properties, the average 'safe' grazing capacity calculated by the model (21.0 DSE/kmZ) was 8% lighter than the average of the owner assessed capacities (22.7 DSE/kmZ), which in tum was 37% lighter than the average of the pre-1989 Department of Lands rated carrying capacity (31.0 DSE/kmZ). The grazing land management and administrative implications of these results and the role graziers played as consultants are discussed.
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Parker, Neil, Jennifer Robson, and Morton Bell. "A serosurvey ofCoxiella burnetiiinfection in children and young adults in South West Queensland." Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 34, no. 1 (February 2010): 79–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1753-6405.2010.00478.x.
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POPPLE, LINDSAY W., and DAVID L. EMERY. "Five new species of Yoyetta Moulds (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae) from south-eastern Australia." Zootaxa 5141, no. 5 (May 30, 2022): 401–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5141.5.1.
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Five new species are described in the genus Yoyetta Moulds, each belonging to the Yoyetta tristrigata (Goding and Froggatt) species group. Yoyetta australicta n. sp. occurs in southern eucalypt woodlands in two separate populations, one extending from the foothills of the Mt Lofty Ranges and southern fringes of Adelaide north to the Flinders Ranges, and the other from Warrumbungle National Park and from Clandulla, near Orange and near Grenfell in New South Wales south to Mt Taylor in the Australian Capital Territory. Yoyetta corindi n. sp. has a restricted, coastal and subcoastal warm temperate distribution in north-eastern New South Wales open forest communities between Trustums Hill and Arrawarra, extending inland from south-west of Grafton to Tyringham. Yoyetta delicata n. sp. has an inland warm temperate distribution in eucalypt woodland and open forest from near Killarney and west of Warwick in south-east Queensland south to Cassilis and near Wyong in central New South Wales. Yoyetta ignita n. sp. is found from Flinders Peak and Mt Tamborine in south-east Queensland, south along the Great Dividing Range (and inland to Mt Kaputar) in New South Wales, with a disjunct population on the eastern slopes of Mt Ainslie in the Australian Capital Territory. Yoyetta robusta n. sp. is found from the Granite Belt in south-east Queensland south to the Glenn Innes area in northern New South Wales. The new species are all small–medium sized cicadas (15–25 mm body length) with male calling songs that are distinguishable from one another and from other species in the genus. In three of the new species (Y. australicta n. sp., Y. corindi n. sp. and Y. robusta n. sp.), the songs are characterised by sharp, high energy ticks or clicks, produced mainly in flight. Each of these species also produces ticks or clicks, sometimes in combination with a short buzz, while stationary. Of the remaining two species, one (Y. delicata n. sp.) produces a soft, coarse buzzing song while stationary and the other (Y. ignita n. sp.) produces a combination of buzzes and clicks while stationary. A key to species in the Y. tristrigata species group is provided.
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Cartmel, Jennifer, Kerry Smith, and Debbie Miller. "Empowered with Wings: Professional Development for Supporting Children's Social and Emotional Wellbeing in South-West Queensland." Children Australia 41, no. 4 (October 20, 2016): 292–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2016.35.
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Wings: Social and emotional wellbeing in the early years is a professional development programme designed to assist educators in early years services to improve outcomes for children. It uses a strengths-based approach and supports educators to understand the impact of their interactions with children and to use communication strategies, such as descriptive feedback, to develop children's capacities. These strategies are used to help children recognise their strengths and build their ability to self-regulate and manage their own social and emotional wellbeing. This paper reports on the outcomes of the Wings programme introduced into early childhood services in rural and remote south-west Queensland, Australia, through the Community Wellbeing Project run by the Pathways to Resilience Trust in partnership with Anglicare Southern Queensland. Preliminary findings indicate the Wings programme successfully enhanced the confidence and knowledge of early years educators engaged in promoting children's social and emotional wellbeing.
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GILL, ANTHONY C., JOHN J. POGONOSKI, GLENN I. MOORE, and JEFFREY W. JOHNSON. "Review of Australian species of Plectranthias Bleeker and Selenanthias Tanaka (Teleostei: Serranidae: Anthiadinae), with descriptions of four new species." Zootaxa 4918, no. 1 (January 26, 2021): 1–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4918.1.1.
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Australian species of the anthiadine genera Plectranthias and Selenanthias are reviewed. Twenty-two species of Plectranthias and two species of Selenanthias are recorded from Australian waters: Plectranthias sp. 1 from a seamount north of Middleton Reef and Norfolk Ridge, Tasman Sea; P. alleni Randall from off southwest Western Australia; P. azumanus (Jordan & Richardson) from off southwest Western Australia; P. bennetti Allen & Walsh from Holmes Reef, Coral Sea; P. cruentus Gill & Roberts from Lord Howe Island, and possibly off Stradbroke Island, Queensland; P. ferrugineus n. sp. from the North West Shelf and Arafura Sea; P. fourmanoiri Randall from Christmas Island and Holmes Reef, Coral Sea; P. grahami n. sp. from off central New South Wales, Tasman Sea; P. inermis Randall from Christmas Island; P. japonicus (Steindachner) from the Arafura Sea and North West Shelf; P. kamii Randall from the Coral Sea, Lord Howe Island and Christmas Island; P. lasti Randall & Hoese from the North West Shelf and off Marion Reef, Queensland; P. longimanus (Weber) from the Timor Sea, Great Barrier Reef, Coral Sea and southern Queensland; P. maculicauda (Regan) from southeastern Australia; P. mcgroutheri n. sp. from the North West Shelf; P. megalophthalmus Fourmanoir & Randall from northeast of the Whitsunday Islands, Queensland; P. melanesius Randall from southeastern Queensland and a seamount north of Middleton Reef; P. moretonensis n. sp. from off Stradbroke Island, Queensland; P. nanus Randall from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Christmas Island, Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea; P. retrofasciatus Fourmanoir & Randall from the Great Barrier Reef; P. robertsi Randall & Hoese from off Queensland, Coral Sea; P. winniensis (Tyler) from the Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea; Selenanthias analis Tanaka from the North West Shelf and Arafura Sea; and S. barroi (Fourmanoir) from west of Lihou Reef, Coral Sea. Five of the species represent new records for Australia: P. azumanus, P. kamii, P. megalophthalmus, P. melanesius and S. barroi. Previous records of P. megalophthalmus from the North West Shelf are based on misidentified specimens of P. lasti. Records of P. wheeleri from the North West Shelf are based on specimens here identified as P. mcgroutheri n. sp. A record of P. yamakawai Yoshino from Christmas Island is based on a misidentified specimen of P. kamii. Plectranthias retrofasciatus was previously recorded from the Great Barrier Reef as P. pallidus Randall & Hoese, here shown to be a junior synonym of P. retrofasciatus. Video-based records of P. kelloggi from the Great Barrier Reef appear to be based on P. retrofasciatus. Identification keys, diagnoses, character summaries, photographs and Australian distribution information are presented for all species. Full descriptions are provided for the new species and for those newly recorded from Australia.
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Adams, Peter. "A review of Dendrobium kingianum Bidwill ex Lindl. (Orchidaceae) with morphological and molecularphylogenetic analyses." Telopea 24 (May 19, 2021): 203–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.7751/telopea14806.
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Populations of Dendrobium kingianum Bidwill ex Lindl. from near Newcastle, New South Wales to southern and central west Queensland and encompassing all regions of the distribution were studied using field observations, morphometric analysis and nrITS sequences. A total of 281 individuals were used to construct regional descriptions of D. kingianum and 139 individuals were measured for 19 morphological characters, and similarities and differences among specimens summarised using multivariate statistical methods. Patterns of morphological variation within D. kingianum are consistent with a single variable species that expresses clinal variation, with short-growing plants in the south and taller plants in the northern part of the distribution. The nrITS gene tree suggests two subgroups within D. kingianum subsp. kingianum, one comprising northern, the other southern individuals, which may overlap in the vicinity of Dorrigo, New South Wales. The disjunct D. kingianum subsp. carnarvonense Peter B. Adams in central west Queensland, which can be distinguished by a predominately subterranean habit and a narrower labellum midlobe, was resolved sister to D. moorei F.Muell., which renders D. kingianum paraphyletic in the nrITS gene tree, but this position was not supported. Regional descriptions documenting clinal variation are provided. All previously described varieties, including D. kingianum var. pulcherrimum Rupp, are colour and growth forms of D. kingianum subsp. kingianum.
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Clarke, MR, and JR Wythes. "Effect of short- and long-acting growth promotants on grazing beef cattle in south-west Queensland." Rangeland Journal 10, no. 1 (1988): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9880030.
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The effects of a single implantation of a short-acting (< 120 days) growth promotant - 36 mg zeranol (Ralgro) - were studied with one, two and three year old steers grazing Mitchell (Astrebla spp.) grasslands from March to June 1981 (107 days) in south-west Queensland. Implantation increased (P<0.05) mean final liveweight by 9.7, 18.1 and 11.0 kg for the one, two and three year old steers, respectively (control groups 317.6 kg, 432.3 kg and 519.1 kg). Tn a second experiment, the effects of a single implantation of a long-acting (400 days) growth promotant - 45 mg oestradiol 17 beta (Compudose 400) - were studied with steers grazing Channel pastures from October 1983 to April 1985 (540 days) in far south-west Queensland. Implantation increased (P<0.01) both mean final liveweight by 30.7 kg (control group 577.1 kg) and carcass weight by 14.2 kg (control 306.4 kg). Daily liveweight gains for implanted and control steers were 0.48 kg and 0.43 kg per day respectively @<0.01). There was no significant difference between the implanted and control steers in dressing percentage (52.7 cf. 53.2%) and fat ;hicknes.s at the P8 rump sGe (20.2 cf. 18.9 mm).
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Gordon, Gregory, Peter McRae, Leong Lim, Darryl Reimer, and Gary Porter. "The conservation status of the yellow-footed rock-wallaby in Queensland." Oryx 27, no. 3 (July 1993): 159–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0030605300027964.
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A survey of the distribution of the yellow-footed rock-wallaby Petrogale xanthopus was carried out in Queensland from 1984 to 1987. The species was found at 44 sites to the north and north-west of Adavale in south-western Queensland, mainly in the rugged country along the edges of low sandstone tablelands and hills. The size of the rock-wallaby population could not be estimated with accuracy, but is considered to be of the order of 5000–10,000 animals. The species is vulnerable because of property development in the area and possibly because of competition from other herbivores. The authors recommend regular monitoring of the population size.
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Johnston, PW, GM Mckeon, and KA Day. "Objective `Safe' Grazing Capacities for South-West Queensland Australia: Development of a Model for Individual Properties." Rangeland Journal 18, no. 2 (1996): 244. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9960244.
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Few tools are available to assist graziers, land administrators and financiers in making objective grazing capacity decisions on Australian rangelands, despite existing knowledge regarding stocking rate theory and the impact of stocking rates on land condition. To address this issue a model for objectively estimating 'safe' grazing capacities on individual grazing properties in south-west Queensland was developed. The method is based on 'safe' levels of utilisation (15%-20%) by domestic livestock of average annual forage grown for each land system on a property. Average annual forage grown (kglha) was calculated as the product of the rainfall use efficiency (kglhdmm) and average annual rainfall (mm) for a land system. This estimate included the impact of tree and shrub cover on forage production. The 'safe' levels of forage utilisation for south- west Queensland pastures were derived from the combined experience of (1) re-analysis of the results of grazing trials, (2) reaching a consensus on local knowledge and (3) examination of existing grazing practice on 'benchmark' grazing properties. We recognise the problems in defining, determining and using grazing capacity values, but consider that the model offers decision makers a tool that can be used to assess the grazing capacity of individual properties.
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Singh, D. K., N. McGuckian, R. A. Routley, G. A. Thomas, R. C. Dalal, Y. P. Dang, T. J. Hall, et al. "Poor adoption of ley-pastures in south-west Queensland: biophysical, economic and social constraints." Animal Production Science 49, no. 10 (2009): 894. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/an09015.
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The present review identifies various constraints relating to poor adoption of ley-pastures in south-west Queensland, and suggests changes in research, development and extension efforts for improved adoption. The constraints include biophysical, economic and social constraints. In terms of biophysical constraints, first, shallower soil profiles with subsoil constraints (salt and sodicity), unpredictable rainfall, drier conditions with higher soil temperature and evaporative demand in summer, and frost and subzero temperature in winter, frequently result in a failure of established, or establishing, pastures. Second, there are limited options for legumes in a ley-pasture, with the legumes currently being mostly winter-active legumes such as lucerne and medics. Winter-active legumes are ineffective in improving soil conditions in a region with summer-dominant rainfall. Third, most grain growers are reluctant to include grasses in their ley-pasture mix, which can be uneconomical for various reasons, including nitrogen immobilisation, carryover of cereal diseases and depressed yields of the following cereal crops. Fourth, a severe depletion of soil water following perennial ley-pastures (grass + legumes or lucerne) can reduce the yields of subsequent crops for several seasons, and the practice of longer fallows to increase soil water storage may be uneconomical and damaging to the environment. Economic assessments of integrating medium- to long-term ley-pastures into cropping regions are generally less attractive because of reduced capital flow, increased capital investment, economic loss associated with establishment and termination phases of ley-pastures, and lost opportunities for cropping in a favourable season. Income from livestock on ley-pastures and soil productivity gains to subsequent crops in rotation may not be comparable to cropping when grain prices are high. However, the economic benefits of ley-pastures may be underestimated, because of unaccounted environmental benefits such as enhanced water use, and reduced soil erosion from summer-dominant rainfall, and therefore, this requires further investigation. In terms of social constraints, the risk of poor and unreliable establishment and persistence, uncertainties in economic and environmental benefits, the complicated process of changing from crop to ley-pastures and vice versa, and the additional labour and management requirements of livestock, present growers socially unattractive and complex decision-making processes for considering adoption of an existing medium- to long-term ley-pasture technology. It is essential that research, development and extension efforts should consider that new ley-pasture options, such as incorporation of a short-term summer forage legume, need to be less risky in establishment, productive in a region with prevailing biophysical constraints, economically viable, less complex and highly flexible in the change-over processes, and socially attractive to growers for adoption in south-west Queensland.
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Moseby, K. E., R. Brandle, and M. Adams. "Distribution, habitat and conservation status of the rare dusky hopping-mouse, Notomys fuscus (Rodentia : Muridae)." Wildlife Research 26, no. 4 (1999): 479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr97061.
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The distribution, habitat and conservation status of Notomys fuscus were determined by collating past records of the species and conducting field investigations covering areas of historical distribution and similar habitats. Detailed population sampling was carried out in two geographically distinct locations where populations appeared to be extant. Evidence of N. fuscus was found throughout the Strzelecki Desert east and south of the Strzelecki Creek in South Australia and in an isolated group of dunes south-east of the Diamantina River in south-west Queensland. Populations were located in a variety of sand dune habitats (excepting those dominated by Triodia) throughout these areas, implying that the species is a habitat-generalist with a preference for a sandy substrate. Eight floristic groups were identified from the 66 sites sampled, three of which supported N. fuscus populations. These ranged from extremely degraded dune and sand plain systems in the southern Strzelecki Desert, supporting mostly ephemeral plants, to well-vegetated dunes covered by sandhill canegrass,Zygochloa paradoxa, in south-west Queensland. However, the results suggest that the presence of consolidated dunes and perennial vegetation are important for the maintenance of stable populations. Relatively dense populations of N. fuscus were recorded only in the vicinity of major drainage systems. It is hypothesised that the higher nutrient status of the soils surrounding such systems may be an important factor affecting the distribution of N. fuscus. The study reaffirmed the species’ decline since European settlement of Australia, and recommends that the present vulnerable status of the species (IUCN Species Survival Commission (SSC) Rodent Specialist Group) be maintained.
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Chapman, KR, B. Paxton, and DH Maggs. "Growth and yield of clonal guavas in south-eastern Queensland." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 26, no. 5 (1986): 619. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea9860619.
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Five processing guava clones (GA6- 1, GA7- 12, GA8-30, GA9-35, GA11-56) were tested over 3 cropping years at Nambour, in coastal south-eastern Queensland. Mean marketable yield for the first crop at 2 years of age was 45 kg/tree or 36.23 t/ha at a density of 805 trees/ha. GA11-56, the most acceptable clone for processing, also gave the highest marketable yields of 627, 71.65 and 72.53 t/ha for the first 3 crops. Yield per unit cross sectional area of trunk was a more simple and useful index of yield efficiency than more complex parameters including a fruitfulness index and multiple regressions with yield of north-south canopy spread, number of primary branches and combinations of these and trunk girth. Similarly, trunk - - girth provided at least as good an estimate of tree size as the vigour index. Tree dimension measurements which included east-west canopy spread, north-south canopy spread, tree height, stem height, number of primary branches, crown height, crown radius, tree canopy volume, canopy surface area and an index of crown weight provided no consistent indication of tree size. They were not highly correlated with either accumulated or final yield of the guava. The GA11-56 clone because of its yield, fruit size and other desirable processing characteristics was the only clone that could be recommended for commercial plantings.
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Meiklejohn, Kelly, and Elizabeth Barrett. "Isolated Schools Project." Australian and International Journal of Rural Education 4, no. 2 (July 1, 1994): 31–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.47381/aijre.v4i2.390.
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In January of this year ten University of Southern Queensland student teachers, each with their own preconceived idea of the West, were ready to confront the unknown experience of teaching in a rural area in North or South West Queensland, For the next three weeks we would live and breathe the role of a teacher within a rural community and have an unforgettable experience. Through the Isolated Schools Project we would be provided with many advantageous experiences including multi-level planning and timetabling; pupil free days; enrolment and administration procedures. The project would present us with an extremely beneficial teaching experience and an opportunity to discover life within a rural community. After such enjoyable experiences, we would have no hesitation in accepting a teaching position within a small rural community, You have more to gain than to lose through participating in the Isolated Schools Project therefore, we highly recommend other prospective teachers to take up the challenge.
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Johnson, PM, MDB Eldridge, V. Kiernan, and RJ Cupitt. "A Significant Range Extension Of The Purple-Necked Petrogale Purpureicollis Rockwallaby." Australian Mammalogy 23, no. 1 (2001): 71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/am01071.
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IN 1982, the Queensland subspecies of the blackfooted rock-wallaby Petrogale lateralis purpureicollis was reported to occur around Mt Isa and south to around Dajarra (Briscoe et al. 1982). During 1991, the known range of this taxon was extended 300 km to the north-west when an adult female P. l. purpureicollis was collected from ?Ridgepole Waterhole? in the Musselbrook Resource Reserve near Lawn Hill National Park (Eldridge et al. 1993). In 1994 the range was further extended when P. l. purpureicollis was recorded from the Constance Ranges and the upper reaches of Stockyard and Elizabeth Creeks; around the town of Cloncurry and the following distances from the town: 85 km north west; 60 and 87 km west; 4, 23, 28 and 35 km south and 15 km east (Bell et al. 1995). Approaches by the Cannington Mining operation to the southwest of McKinley in October 1999 to confirm the presence of rock-wallabies on nearby Glenholme Station established the presence of P. l. purpureicollis; a 75 km range extension to the south-east.
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Gibson, G., BJ Radford, and RGH Nielsen. "Fallow management, soil water, plant-available soil nitrogen and grain sorghum production in south west Queensland." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 32, no. 4 (1992): 473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea9920473.
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The effects of tillage frequency (conventional, reduced and zero), primary tillage implement (disc, blade and chisel plough), stubble management (retention and removal), gypsum application, and paraplowing were examined with respect to soil water storage, soil nitrate accumulation, crop establishment, crop growth, grain yield and grain nitrogen content for 4 successive sorghum crops on a sodic, texture-contrast soil in south west Queensland. Retention of sorghum stubble (v. removal) produced an increase in mean yield of sorghum grain of 393 kg/ha, due to increased soil water extraction and increased water use efficiency by the following crop. The highest mean yield occurred after reduced blade tillage with stubble retained. Zero tillage with stubble removed gave the lowest mean grain yield. Zero tillage always had the lowest quantity of soil nitrate-nitrogen at sowing. In one fallow, increased aggressiveness of primary tillage (disc v. blade plough) increased the quantity of nitrate-nitrogen in the top 60 cm of soil at sowing. These effects on available soil nitrogen did not result in corresponding differences in grain nitrogen content. Results indicate that for optimum fallow management on this texture-contrast soil in south west Queensland, sorghum residues should be retained, tillage frequency should be reduced, but not to zero, blade ploughing should be preferred to discing, and gypsum application should not be practised.
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Seabrook, Leonie, Clive McAlpine, Greg Baxter, Jonathan Rhodes, Adrian Bradley, and Daniel Lunney. "Drought-driven change in wildlife distribution and numbers: a case study of koalas in south west Queensland." Wildlife Research 38, no. 6 (2011): 509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr11064.
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Context Global climate change will lead to increased climate variability, including more frequent drought and heatwaves, in many areas of the world. This will affect the distribution and numbers of wildlife populations. In south-west Queensland, anecdotal reports indicated that a low density but significant koala population had been impacted by drought from 2001–2009, in accord with the predicted effects of climate change. Aims The study aimed to compare koala distribution and numbers in south-west Queensland in 2009 with pre-drought estimates from 1995–1997. Methods Community surveys and faecal pellet surveys were used to assess koala distribution. Population densities were estimated using the Faecal Standing Crop Method. From these densities, koala abundance in 10 habitat units was interpolated across the study region. Bootstrapping was used to estimate standard error. Climate data and land clearing were examined as possible explanations for changes in koala distribution and numbers between the two time periods. Key results Although there was only a minor change in distribution, there was an 80% decline in koala numbers across the study region, from a mean population of 59 000 in 1995 to 11 600 in 2009. Most summers between 2002 and 2007 were hotter and drier than average. Vegetation clearance was greatest in the eastern third of the study region, with the majority of clearing being in mixed eucalypt/acacia ecosystems and vegetation on elevated residuals. Conclusions Changes in the area of occupancy and numbers of koalas allowed us to conclude that drought significantly reduced koala populations and that they contracted to critical riparian habitats. Land clearing in the eastern part of the region may reduce the ability of koalas to move between habitats. Implications The increase in hotter and drier conditions expected with climate change will adversely affect koala populations in south-west Queensland and may be similar in other wildlife species in arid and semiarid regions. The effect of climate change on trailing edge populations may interact with habitat loss and fragmentation to increase extinction risks. Monitoring wildlife population dynamics at the margins of their geographic ranges will help to manage the impacts of climate change.
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Troup, Alison, and Sally Edwards. "Old basins, new seismic data – architecture of Proterozoic basins in Northwest Queensland." APPEA Journal 62, no. 2 (May 13, 2022): S502—S507. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj21167.
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As part of the Strategic Resources Exploration Program and to complement surveys acquired under Geoscience Australia’s Exploring for the Future (EFTF) initiative, the Geological Survey of Queensland acquired the Camooweal 2D seismic survey in 2019. This survey was designed to support exploration for hydrocarbons in the Georgina and South Nicholson Basins and Isa Superbasin in Northwest Queensland (NWQ) by providing precompetitive sub-surface data to enable interpretation of basin and basement architecture and to examine structures interpreted in the 2018 North West Queensland SEEBASE Study. The Camooweal 2D seismic survey extends Geoscience Australia’s L210 South Nicholson Seismic Survey into an underexplored region of NWQ. It also ties into and complements the 1994 and 2004 Mount Isa seismic surveys, and the 2019 L212 Barkly Seismic Survey in the Northern Territory. The South Nicholson survey highlighted a significant thickness of sedimentary strata and identified a new depocenter of probable Proterozoic age, now referred to as the Carrara Sub-basin. The Camooweal and Barkly surveys extended the seismic coverage in this region and possibly increase the Carrara Sub-basin’s extent underneath the Georgina Basin. This work will present an interpretation of the basin architecture of the Camooweal 2D seismic in light of the recent drilling at NDI Cararra 1 and tie into interpretation of the Barkly Seismic Survey to provide a regional interpretation of NWQ’s Proterozoic basins in the region.
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Rowland, Michael J., and Sean Ulm. "Indigenous fish traps and weirs of Queensland." Queensland Archaeological Research 14 (June 1, 2011): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.25120/qar.14.2011.219.
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<p>A Queensland state-wide review of coastal and inland fish traps and weirs is undertaken. More than 179 sites are described. For coastal Queensland, it is demonstrated that traps with multiple pens are common in the Torres Strait and at a limited number of locations in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. Most traps and weirs south of Torres Strait and the Gulf are isolated structures, with traps in most cases having a single pen. Walls of traps are most often in the shape of an arc and found at points and estuaries and only occasionally on open beaches. Some traps and weirs on the coast were built or used by non-Indigenous people, including South Sea Islanders. Less information could be located on traps and weirs of inland Queensland, which appear to have included many organic traps and weirs. It was found that weirs are common east of the Great Dividing Range, while traps were common to the west. The review draws heavily on unpublished data and reports held by the Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management. The use of this information along with published sources, theses, explorer's diaries and ethnographic accounts allows a comprehensive overview of available information. Fish traps in particular are often found in coastal zones subject to development pressure and this work provides a baseline resource to generate discussion about research and management of this significant site type in these zones.</p>
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Baker, DE, RL Miles, and VJ Eldershaw. "Vegetation Cover Classes and Soil Nutrient Status of the Mulga Lands of South-West Queensland." Rangeland Journal 14, no. 1 (1992): 40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj9920040.
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The soils of the semi-arid mulga lands of south-west Queensland are subject to degradation from both erosion and woody weeds. Limited quantification of the nutrient changes in the red earths under these forms of degradation indicates that eroded land has a lower phosphorus level in the surface soil, a lower pH at depth and an inverse electrical conductivity profile, compared with land vegetated by mulga or grassland. Land invaded by turkey bush did not differ in nutrient characteristics from mulga or grassland. It is concluded that phosphorus will play a critical role in any regeneration programme for eroded land.
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Andersen, Nils Møller, and Tom A. Weir. "The Gerrine Water Striders of Australia (Hemiptera: Gerridae): Taxonomy, Distribution and Ecology." Invertebrate Systematics 11, no. 2 (1997): 203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/it95047.
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Water striders or pond skaters belonging to the subfamily Gerrinae are common inhabitants of various types of fresh water throughout eastern and northern Australia. The present paper deals with the 13 species (in 5 genera) known from Australia. Redescriptions or descriptive notes, illustrations, and keys to adults and nymphs of all species are provided and their distributions recorded and mapped.Tenagogerris pallidusand T. femoratus (both from Northern Territory and Western Australia), Tenagogonus australiensis (Queensland), Limnometra ciliodes (Queensland, Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya), and Limnogonus fossarum gilguy (Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Indo-Malayan Archipelago, and West Pacific to Samoa and Tonga) are described as new. Limnometra poliakanthinaNieser & Chen is synonymised with L. cursitans (Fabricius) and Hydrometra australis Skuse (= Limnometra skusei Torre-Bueno) with Limnogonus luctuosus (Montrouzier). The evolution and zoogeography of Australian water striders are discussed. Finally, we discuss the ecology of the gerrine water striders of Australia in relation to our present knowledge about habitats, phenology, wing polymorphism, and association between species.
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Berman, D., P. J. Kerr, R. Stagg, B. H. van Leeuwen, and T. Gonzalez. "Should the 40-year-old practice of releasing virulent myxoma virus to control rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus) be continued?" Wildlife Research 33, no. 7 (2006): 549. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/wr05004.
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Release of virulent myxoma virus has been a key component of rabbit-control operations in Queensland, Australia, since the 1960s but its use rests on anecdotal reports. During a routine operation to release virulent myxoma virus we found no evidence to support the continued regular use of the technique in south-west Queensland. Radio-tagged rabbits inoculated with virulent myxoma virus contracted the disease but failed to pass enough virus to other rabbits to spread the disease. Rabbits with clinical signs of myxomatosis that were shot were infected with field strain derived from the original laboratory strain released in 1950 rather than the virulent strain that has been released annually. There was no change in rabbit survival or abundance caused by the release. Nevertheless, the release of virulent virus may be useful against isolated pockets of rabbits mainly because field strains are less likely to be present. Such pockets are more common now that rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus is established in Queensland.
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Hammer, Timothy A., H. R. Toelken, and Kevin Thiele. "Hibbertia advena (Dilleniaceae), a new and rare species from Queensland with transcontinental affinities." Australian Journal of Taxonomy 9 (November 16, 2022): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.54102/ajt.ai521.
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The new species Hibbertia advena T.Hammer & Toelken is described. It occurs in north-east Queensland but shares a strong morphological affinity with members of the H. exasperata (Steud.) Briq. species group, which are widespread in south-west Western Australia. This may be an example of a very wide transcontinental disjunction in Australian Hibbertia. The biogeographic significance of such disjunctions is briefly discussed, pending further insights when a more complete molecular phylogeny of the genus is generated.
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LAST, PETER R., GORDON K. YEARSLEY, and HIROYUKI MOTOMURA. "Lioscorpius trifasciatus, a new scorpionfish (Scorpaeniformes: Setarchidae) from the South-West Pacific Ocean." Zootaxa 1038, no. 1 (August 19, 2005): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1038.1.2.
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A new scorpionfish, Lioscorpius trifasciatus sp. nov., is described from material collected from the eastern Australian continental slope between Hinchinbrook Island (central Queensland) and Port Jackson (New South Wales) in 250–400 m depth. It differs from the only other member of the genus, the widely distributed Indo–West Pacific congener, L. longiceps Günther, in having the following combination of characters: 3 anal-fin spines (rather than 2), smaller head dimensions (i.e. length 38.7–42.3% SL, orbit 7.4–8.2% SL, upper jaw 19.1–20.7% SL, and maxilla depth 5.3–6.1% SL), shorter predorsal distance (36.2–38.8% SL), some relatively long fin elements (i.e. longest pelvic-fin ray 18.6–19.8% SL, first anal-fin spine 5.0–6.6% SL, and second anal-fin spine 10.4–12.7% SL), 3 diagonal red bands across the pectoral fin, and a red caudal-fin margin.
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Chapman, Margaret. "Kangaroos and feral goats as economic resources for graziers: some views from south-west Queensland." Rangeland Journal 25, no. 1 (2003): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/rj03003.
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Fifteen years ago it was proposed that the conversion of kangaroos from a pest to an economically valuable resource would allow graziers to reduce the numbers of domestic stock and thereby lower total grazing pressure. Since then, little progress towards this goal has been achieved. This is believed to be due mainly to the low prices obtained for kangaroo products. A survey of graziers in south-west Queensland was carried out to discover their opinions on kangaroos as a potential economic resource. Questions on the harvesting of feral goats were also included in the survey because of the contrast this industry provides to kangaroo harvesting in terms of grazier involvement. The results of the survey are discussed in relation to resource ownership rights; kangaroo product prices and marketing; and competition within the kangaroo harvesting industry. They show that while low kangaroo product prices do act as a disincentive to graziers, other administrative, legal and institutional factors are also important impediments to their entry to the industry. It is concluded that until the focus of attention widens to include consideration of these as well as just market factors, little progress will be made towards integrating graziers into the kangaroo harvesting industry.
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Squire, Warwick, and Julie-Anne Braithwaite. "Ahead of the game: working with local communities in frontier resource basins." APPEA Journal 59, no. 2 (2019): 728. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj18097.
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From frontier gas basins in North West Queensland to potential unconventional gas reserves in the far south-west, several areas in Queensland have potential for new or expanded resource activity over the coming decade. Lessons of the past have highlighted the importance of early engagement, by industry and government, in building and maintaining constructive relationships with local communities and achieving successful coexistence. The way in which local communities are introduced to new resource activity, and their first impressions, contribute to future attitudes and expectations. In some cases, the Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy (DNRME) is taking a lead on early activities to facilitate resource exploration and development, such as pre-competitive exploration and release of tender areas for potential exploration. DNRME’s approach for engaging with resource communities involves developing robust relationships with local stakeholders, namely local government, landholders, Traditional Owners and local organisations, and a deep understanding of their interests and the local context. Second, it focuses on providing information to local communities about resource activity and ensuring that they have a channel for raising questions and concerns.
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"96/04731 DME south-west Queensland petroleum land release — 1996." Fuel and Energy Abstracts 37, no. 5 (September 1996): 337. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0140-6701(96)89484-7.
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Buikstra, Elizabeth, Tony Fallon, and Rob Eley. "Psychological services in five South-west Queensland communities - supply and demand." Rural and Remote Health, March 20, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.22605/rrh543.
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"Mycosphaerella citri. [Distribution map]." Distribution Maps of Plant Diseases, no. 3) (August 1, 1990). http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/dmpd/20046500524.
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Abstract A new distribution map is provided for Mycosphaerella citri Whiteside. Hosts: Citrus. Information is given on the geographical distribution in Asia, Japan, Australasia, Australia, Queensland, North America, USA, Florida, Central America & West Indies, Belize, Cuba, Dominica, South America, Argentina, Bolivia, Suriname.