Journal articles: 'Toowoomba'

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Lee, Christopher. "Spirit of Place: The European Fashioning of Toowoomba." Queensland Review 3, no. 1 (April 1996): 24–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600000659.

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No other town in Queensland is so well favoured by nature for combining these rare advantages. We have the healthiness of climate, the coolness of a fine English summer, the pure and rarefied air of a moderate elevation, which dwellers along the hot and humid coast so much desire. We have beauty of scenery in picturesque variety, with a panorama of rolling Downs and far-reaching plain … ours is the first town on the elevated Downs after rising from the close and exhausting atmosphere of the ‘littoral’ country.So rhapsodised the editorial in the Toowoomba Chronicle on 14 June, 1890. From the nineteenth century the drop in temperature which greeted the traveller's ascent to the elevated tablelands of the Darling Downs was greeted as a sign of a more vitalising and health-giving climate than the sub-tropical humidity of the Brisbane coastal plain. Katie Hume in 1866 felt Toowoomba's air 'cool and English like … after the heat of Brisbane’, while the consumptive Walter Coote argued in 1887 that the Downs possessed ‘a climate as healthful and even invigorating as that of any place in the World’ (Hume 160, Coote 201). The Social-Darwinist connection between the moral character of a people and the temperature of their climate was a frequent theme of nineteenth century culture. The imperial triumphs of European civilisation were often explained by Europe's temperate climate, for the cooler the climate the more ‘civil’ the people are deemed to be (Spurr); and Europe's temperate climate was also an acknowledged cause of the reasoned moral restraint of the civilised colonial settler. Thus the celebration of Toowoomba's ‘European’ climate served to familiarise an alien Australian space as a place which would support European settlement.

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Breen, Deborah. ""When Horsepower Moved the Nation." Transfers 2, no. 2 (June 1, 2012): 133–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/trans.2012.020210.

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McWilliam, Kelly. "‘My Teacher Told me “Toowoomba will Never Flood”’: Regional Community Uses of Facebook During the 2011 Queensland Floods." Queensland Review 20, no. 1 (May 3, 2013): 86–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2013.7.

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Regional Queensland and social media are not standard bedfellows in studies of Australian media use. Yet regional community responses to recent natural disasters on Facebook in particular warrant further investigation. Indeed, while the increasing use of social media by government organisations during disasters and other crises is by now well documented, the comparative surge in community uses — and particularly regional community uses — has received considerably less attention. This article is broadly interested in regional Queensland uses of Facebook during the 2011 Queensland floods, specifically the ‘Toowoomba & Darling Downs Flood Photos & Info Page’ (https://www.facebook.com/TmbaLockyerFloods?fref=ts 10 January 2011). Drawing on an interview with the page's creator, I consider both the speed and apparent efficacy of the page as a tool of grassroots (or unofficial) crisis communication, partly compared with its most obvious official counterpart, the Toowoomba Regional Council's Facebook page. Ultimately, I argue that the ‘Toowoomba & Darling Downs Flood Photos & Info Page’ offers an emphatically more useful model of social media-based crisis communication from which others might draw.

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Bui, Elisabeth N., Andrew Loughhead, and Robert Corner. "Extracting soil-landscape rules from previous soil surveys." Soil Research 37, no. 3 (1999): 495. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/s98047.

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Where map legends and map unit definitions reflect the mental models used by soil surveyors to map soils in the past, the association between soil map units and other environmental spatial data can be re-modelled to infer formal survey rules. These rules then can be used to guide subsequent re-interpretations of spatial information for the same area or for another area judged to be similar. Classification trees and Bayesian statistical modelling were used to extract soil mapping rules from an existing map using the Toowoomba area in south-eastern Queensland, Australia, as a case study. In the Toowoomba map area, regional soil-landscape rules could be extracted by combining geology and DEM-derived attributes. The two approaches achieved comparable success.

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Dickman, Vicki, Lawrie Kavanagh, and Judy Kennedy. "Beyond the Brisbane Line." Queensland Review 2, no. 1 (April 1995): 76–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600000337.

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‘Beyond the Brisbane Line’ was the theme of the second Public Address of an annual series organised by the Queensland Studies Centre. Held in conjunction with the Centre's annual conference, the Public Address was presented in Toowoomba on 25 November 1994.

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Woods, Megan, Rajendra P. Adhikari, Laurie Bonney, Andrew Harwood, Sophie Ross, Lea Coates, and Robyn Eversole. "Regional development and the Toowoomba Surat Basin Enterprise organization." Small Enterprise Research 25, no. 3 (September 2, 2018): 290–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13215906.2018.1522273.

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Willey, E. C. "Urban geology of the Toowoomba conurbation, SE Queensland, Australia." Quaternary International 103, no. 1 (January 2003): 57–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1040-6182(02)00141-6.

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Brodie, Ian M. "SSUIS – a research model for predicting suspended solids loads in stormwater runoff from urban impervious surfaces." Water Science and Technology 65, no. 12 (June 1, 2012): 2140–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2012.131.

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Suspended solids from urban impervious surfaces (SSUIS) is a spreadsheet-based model that predicts the mass loading of suspended solids (SS) in stormwater runoff generated from impervious urban surfaces. The model is intended to be a research tool and incorporates several particle accumulation and washoff processes. Development of SSUIS is based on interpretation of storm event data obtained from a galvanised iron roof, a concrete car park and a bitumen road located in Toowoomba, Australia. SSUIS is a source area model that tracks the particle mass balance on the impervious surface and within its lateral drain to a point of discharge. Particles are separated into two groups: free and detained, depending on the rainfall energy required for surface washoff. Calibration and verification of SSUIS against the Toowoomba SS data yielded R2 values ranging from 0.60 to 0.98. Parameter sensitivity analysis and an example of how SSUIS can be applied to predict the treatment efficiency of a grass swale are also provided.

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Anderson, David. "Queensland Regional Radio." Queensland Review 2, no. 2 (September 1995): 39–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600000830.

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This is a transcript of the key-note address delivered by David Anderson at the ‘Beyond the Brisbane Line Conference’, Queensland Studies Centre, Griffith University, in collaboration with the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, November 1994. David Anderson is the presenter of ABC Radio's Queensland Sunday program.

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Teakle, DS, S. Hicks, M. Karan, JB Hacker, RS Greber, and JF Donaldson. "Host range and geographic distribution of pangola stunt virus and its planthopper vectors in Australia." Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 42, no. 5 (1991): 819. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ar9910819.

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Natural hosts of pangola stunt virus (PaSV) in eastern Austalia were found to be Digitaria eriantha ssp. pentzii (pangola grass), D. ciliaris (summer grass) and D. milanjiana. Transmission tests using the planthopper vector, Sogatella kolophon, showed that D. polevansii, D. eriantha ssp. eriantha, D. swazilandensis and the Australian native, D. divaricatissima were also susceptible, whereas D. didactyla was not infected. In tests of 22 species in 15 other genera, only Urochloa panicoides (annual urochloa grass) was infected. In field surveys, PaSV was commonly found in pangola grass in near-coastal districts from Grafton, N.S.W. to Walkamin, N. Qld and was detected up to 100 km inland at Toowoomba. The virus was not detected in either pangola grass or D. eriantha ssp. eriantha in subhumid areas west of Toowoomba or at Gayndah. Sogatella kolophon was collected from Bamaga, N. Qld to Murwillumbah, N.S.W. It was commonly associated with both PaSV-infected and PaSV-free digitgrass pastures. It is concluded that PaSV poses a threat to many digitgrasses in near-coastal districts of Qld and subtropical N.S.W., but so far is unknown in inland Australia.

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Lloyd, DL, D. Gramshaw, TB Hilder, DH Ludke, and JW Turner. "Performance of North American and Australian lucernes in the Queensland subtropics. 3. Yield, plant survival and aphid populations in raingrown stands." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 25, no. 1 (1985): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea9850091.

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Twenty-three North American and up to five Australian lucerne lines were evaluated for dry matter yield, plant persistence and aphid resistance at three sites under raingrown conditions in southern Queensland. The experiment at Toowoomba was conducted over 3 years, but those at Mitchell and Biloela were terminated after 1 and 2 years, respectively, because of poor plant survival caused partly by dry conditions. In the subhumid environments at Toowoomba and Biloela, lucerne yield was strongly associated with lucerne population decline. At Toowomba, where there was least confounding with nonordered variation, yield was also positively associated with decreasing winter dormancy. There, persistence (and therefore yield) was associated with resistance to both anthracnose and Phytophthora root rot. No line possessed high levels of combined resistance to these diseases. In the semi-arid environment at Mitchell, the highest yields were obtained from non-dormant lines. Root canker reduced lucerne yield at this site. Large populations of spotted alfalfa aphid developed on susceptible lines and of blue-green aphid on all lines. However, no effects on the dry matter yield or persistence of any lines were measured.

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Hegney, Desley, Elizabeth Buikstra, Chris Chamberlain, Judy March, Michelle McKay, Gail Cope, and Tony Fallon. "Nurse discharge planning in the emergency department: a Toowoomba, Australia, study." Journal of Clinical Nursing 15, no. 8 (August 2006): 1033–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01405.x.

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Shabbir, Asad, Michael Widderick, and Michael J. Walsh. "An Evaluation of Growth Characteristics of Faba Bean Cultivars." Agronomy 11, no. 6 (June 7, 2021): 1166. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy11061166.

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Resistance to herbicides and the lack of new herbicide options have led researchers to explore alternate methods to manage weed populations in large-scale cropping systems. Crop competition is an effective weed management approach that can reduce the pressure on herbicides. Faba bean (Vicia faba L.) is an important winter legume crop in Australia. Crop traits such as, height, biomass, growth rate, tillering capacity, leaf area, and root growth have been suggested as indicators of the competitive ability of crops against weeds. Based on pot studies at Narrabri and Toowoomba, we assessed the growth traits (biomass, height, leaf area, relative growth rate, and branch number) of six faba bean cultivars and ranked them for their potential ability to compete with weeds. PBA Marne and PBA Zahra were identified as highly competitive faba bean cultivars based on their higher overall ranking score achieved at both locations. PBA Nasma and PBA Samira were ranked highly and moderately competitive at Narrabri and Toowoomba sites, respectively. At Narrabri, PBA Nanu was ranked poorly competitive based on its lower biomass, height, and leaf area than the other cultivars. The weed suppressive ability of these cultivars needs to be assessed in the presence of weeds under field conditions.

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Hurlimann, Anna, and Sara Dolnicar. "When public opposition defeats alternative water projects – The case of Toowoomba Australia." Water Research 44, no. 1 (January 2010): 287–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2009.09.020.

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Ginn, Geoffrey A. C. "Holy Ground and Mortal Promises: the campaigns for the Mothers' Memorial, Toowoomba." Journal of Australian Studies 34, no. 3 (September 2010): 331–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2010.498332.

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Brodie, Ian M., and Peter K. Dunn. "Suspended particle characteristics in storm runoff from urban impervious surfaces in Toowoomba, Australia." Urban Water Journal 6, no. 2 (June 2009): 137–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15730620802541607.

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Melissa, Kaltner. "The incidence of childhood injury following an ‘Inland Tsunami’: the experience of Toowoomba." Injury Prevention 18, Suppl 1 (October 2012): A104.3—A105. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/injuryprev-2012-040590d.27.

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Parisi, A. V., J. Sabburg, J. Turner, and P. K. Dunn. "Cloud observations for the statistical evaluation of the UV index at Toowoomba, Australia." International Journal of Biometeorology 52, no. 3 (May 25, 2007): 159–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00484-007-0106-7.

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Al-Musaylh, Mohanad S., Ravinesh C. Deo, and Yan Li. "Electrical Energy Demand Forecasting Model Development and Evaluation with Maximum Overlap Discrete Wavelet Transform-Online Sequential Extreme Learning Machines Algorithms." Energies 13, no. 9 (May 6, 2020): 2307. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13092307.

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To support regional electricity markets, accurate and reliable energy demand (G) forecast models are vital stratagems for stakeholders in this sector. An online sequential extreme learning machine (OS-ELM) model integrated with a maximum overlap discrete wavelet transform (MODWT) algorithm was developed using daily G data obtained from three regional campuses (i.e., Toowoomba, Ipswich, and Springfield) at the University of Southern Queensland, Australia. In training the objective and benchmark models, the partial autocorrelation function (PACF) was first employed to select the most significant lagged input variables that captured historical fluctuations in the G time-series data. To address the challenges of non-stationarities associated with the model development datasets, a MODWT technique was adopted to decompose the potential model inputs into their wavelet and scaling coefficients before executing the OS-ELM model. The MODWT-PACF-OS-ELM (MPOE) performance was tested and compared with the non-wavelet equivalent based on the PACF-OS-ELM (POE) model using a range of statistical metrics, including, but not limited to, the mean absolute percentage error (MAPE%). For all of the three datasets, a significantly greater accuracy was achieved with the MPOE model relative to the POE model resulting in an MAPE = 4.31% vs. MAPE = 11.31%, respectively, for the case of the Toowoomba dataset, and a similarly high performance for the other two campuses. Therefore, considering the high efficacy of the proposed methodology, the study claims that the OS-ELM model performance can be improved quite significantly by integrating the model with the MODWT algorithm.

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Hatoss, Anikó, Donna Starks, and Henriette Janse van Rensburg. "Afrikaans language maintenance in Australia." Australian Review of Applied Linguistics 34, no. 1 (January 1, 2011): 4–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/aral.34.1.01hat.

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Changes in the political climate in the home country have resulted in the emigration of South Africans to English speaking countries such as Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Despite the scale of movement of the South African population, language maintenance in these diasporic contexts has received little consideration. This paper presents a description of an Australian Afrikaans-speaking community in the small Queensland city of Toowoomba. The study shows a high degree of bilingualism amongst the first generation Afrikaans community but also shows incipient signs of language shift within the home and a weak connection between language and identity.

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Price, Jennifer, Kelly Fielding, and Zoe Leviston. "Supporters and Opponents of Potable Recycled Water: Culture and Cognition in the Toowoomba Referendum." Society & Natural Resources 25, no. 10 (October 2012): 980–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2012.656185.

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Wollaston, Anthony, Paul Fahey, Michelle McKay, Desley Hegney, Peter Miller, and James Wollaston. "Reliability and validity of the Toowoomba adult trauma triage tool: a Queensland, Australia study." Accident and Emergency Nursing 12, no. 4 (October 2004): 230–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aaen.2004.07.003.

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Mason, Andrew, and Rebecca Scollen. "Grassroots festival keeps city alive during severe drought." Journal of Place Management and Development 11, no. 3 (August 13, 2018): 266–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpmd-06-2017-0059.

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Purpose This paper aims to discuss the role of a grassroots initiative in engaging local people in an innovative place-making fringe festival. Festivals such as the Carnival of Flowers are a major tourism event for regional cities like Toowoomba and contribute to place-making through marketing and engagement. Within the professional management of such events, there exists space for innovation and genuine community involvement, which can assist in authentically reflecting place identity. Avant Garden (2007-2008) models a successful grassroots fringe festival, initiated by community members in response to the challenge of long-term drought. Avant Garden engaged locals and tourists in a positive re-imagining of place via site-specific public artworks generated by the community. Design/methodology/approach A survey of 504 visitors to Toowoomba’s public gardens during the first weekend of the 2007 Carnival of Flowers examined how Avant Garden was received by the community. Findings The paper suggests that fringe festivals can provide place-making capacity in broadening festivals as an expression of local identity. Fringe festivals can allow authentic community engagement within a mainstream festival and can indicate longer-term innovations to place branding. Practical implications The paper includes implications for festival managers about effective ways to engage community in grassroots initiatives which reflect innovation, authenticity and greater diversity. Originality/value The paper provides a study of a visual arts fringe festival in the context of place management. The project described allows a “bottom up” approach to engaging the local community which provides authenticity and broadens the scope of an existing mainstream garden festival.

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McQuillan, Peter B., Catherine J. Young, and Alastair M. M. Richardson. "A Revision of the Australian Moth Genus Paralaea Guest (Lepidoptera : Geometridae : Ennominae)." Invertebrate Systematics 15, no. 3 (2001): 277. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/it99025.

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The genus Paralaea Guest is reviewed and includes fourpreviously described species, P. porphyrinaria (Gueée, 1857), P. beggaria (Guenée,1857), P. ochrosoma (R. Felder & Rogenhofer,1875) and P. polysticha (Goldfinch, 1944), and nine newspecies: P. atralba, sp. nov., P. chionopasta, sp. nov., P. jarrah, sp. nov., P. karri , sp. nov., P. maranoa, sp. nov., P. sarcodes, sp. nov., P. taggorum, sp. nov., P. tasmanica, sp. nov. and P. toowoomba, sp. nov. The genus has a Bassiandistribution with some extension into the woodlands of the semi-arid zone. Most species occur in south-eastern Australia with six species in Tasmania. Known larvae feed on Eucalyptus, especially trees of the subgenus Monocalyptus, and one species is an occasionalforest pest.

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Lee, Christopher. "Metropolitan Policy and Regional Politics: Reconciliation and Racism in the Redevelopment of Toowoomba's Quarry." Queensland Review 5, no. 2 (December 1998): 20–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1321816600001021.

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AbstractThe increasing inability of State and Federal governments to develop policy which articulates with the lived experiences of the many different regional communities has been a significant factor in electoral disenchantment with the political system and the subsequent rise of One Nation. The situation has not been helped by metropolitan intellectuals' penchant for resorting to patronising provincial stereotypes of the regional cultures so as to fashion themselves as an ethical, because multicultural, site of modernity. This article explores the tensions between local, State and Federal decision making processes and their reception in a regional community by examining the racially inflected controversy over the redevelopment of the Bridge street quarry in the ‘conservative’ garden city of Toowoomba.

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Mason, Robert, and Dianne Jones. "‘Life in one colour’: Indian Australian perceptions of social inclusion in regional Queensland." Queensland Review 21, no. 2 (November 12, 2014): 203–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2014.26.

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In April 2010, an Indian university student was robbed while leaving the campus of his university in regional Queensland. Soon afterwards, the local newspaper described how a ‘gunman’ had accosted the student and ‘forced [him] to lay [sic] face-down on the ground’. The event was not isolated in the national context; there had been a sharp rise in media reports of violence against Indian students in Australia during the preceding six months. The attack in the regional city of Toowoomba appeared to echo these other incidents, given that the victim was an Indian student and the alleged perpetrators were young white Australian males. The case called our attention to how reports of violent racism in metropolitan centres might affect perceptions of social inclusion in regional communities.

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Herring, M. R., and L. O'Brien. "A regional adaptation analysis of oats in New South Wales and southern Queensland for grain yield and dry matter production." Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 51, no. 8 (2000): 961. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ar00016.

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A regional adaptation analysis was conducted to identify oat genotypes with potential for release as varieties or use as parents in breeding programs for New South Wales (NSW) and southern Queensland. This analysis used 5 trial sites (Toowoomba, Moree, Narrabri, Armidale, Temora) and was conducted over 3 years using 71 oat (Avena sp.) genotypes. Genotypes were selected to represent various phenology types from early to late maturing as well as being representative of a variety of end uses including grain, grazing, dual purpose, and naked oats. Australian breeding lines and varieties composed most of the genotypes in the analysis; however, overseas material was also included. Multivariate analysis indicated that the area studied could be divided into 2 subregions. The northern sites of Toowoomba, Moree, and Narrabri were in one cluster, whereas Temora and Armidale formed another. Genotypes formed groups which were largely related to their phenology. Results indicated that there was a group of genotypes which produced above average grain yields over the entire region. Oats in this group were primarily of mid-season phenology and were all from the existing Australian oat breeding programs. Oats of mid- and late-season phenology were better suited to the Armidale and Temora region where conditions are cooler and the growing season longer. Early maturing oats were identified as types suitable for high yielding grain oats for the northern region. However, it is recognised that improvement in rust resistance of these genotypes would be necessary for reliable and profitable grain production in this area. Breeding oats for northern NSW and southern Queensland would be possible using genotypes from the existing Australian oat breeding programs. The quick maturing oats from Agriculture Western Australia seemed especially well suited to this purpose. From the genotypes used in this study there seemed to be a shortage of late maturing oat types. If oats for hay or forage production were required, evaluation of late maturing genetic material from overseas may be required.

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Eley, Diann, Desley Hegney, Anthony Wollaston, Paul Fahey, Peter Miller, Michelle McKay, and James Wollaston. "Triage nurse perceptions of the use, reliability and acceptability of the Toowoomba Adult Triage Trauma Tool (TATTT)." Accident and Emergency Nursing 13, no. 1 (January 2005): 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aaen.2004.10.009.

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Poulsen, M., M. Middleton, S. McQuitty, J. Ramsay, K. Gogna, J. Martin, E. Khoo, W. Wong, R. Fairweather, and E. Walpole. "ORIGINAL ARTICLE: Comparison of a Commonwealth-initiated regional radiation oncology facility in Toowoomba with a Queensland Health facility." Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology 54, no. 4 (August 18, 2010): 368–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9485.2010.02166.x.

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Brodie, Ian M., and Prasanna Egodawatta. "Relationships between rainfall intensity, duration and suspended particle washoff from an urban road surface." Hydrology Research 42, no. 4 (August 1, 2011): 239–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/nh.2011.117.

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A basic understanding of the relationships between rainfall intensity, duration of rainfall and the amount of suspended particles in stormwater runoff generated from road surfaces has been gained mainly from past washoff experiments using rainfall simulators. Simulated rainfall was generally applied at constant intensities, whereas rainfall temporal patterns during actual storms are typically highly variable. This paper discusses a rationale for the application of the constant-intensity washoff concepts to actual storm event runoff. The rationale is tested using suspended particle load data collected at a road site located in Toowoomba, Australia. Agreement between the washoff concepts and measured data is most consistent for intermediate-duration storms (duration <5 h and >1 h). Particle loads resulting from these storm events increase linearly with average rainfall intensity. Above a threshold intensity, there is evidence to suggest a constant or plateau particle load is reached. The inclusion of a peak discharge factor (maximum 6 min rainfall intensity) enhances the ability to predict particle loads.

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Taylor, B. A. "Predicting normalised monthly patterns of domestic external water demand using rainfall and temperature data." Water Supply 12, no. 2 (March 1, 2012): 168–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/ws.2012.125.

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An Australian national approach is presented to predict monthly patterns of local domestic external water demand from climatic indices of daily rainfall and maximum temperature. The model, which can be rapidly applied to potentially any location in Australia, has been verified by measured monthly external water demand at Adelaide, Bundaberg, Emerald, Fraser Coast, Gold Coast, Mackay, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth and Toowoomba. The survey data represents demands in periods prior to, during and after the millennium drought of 2001–2005 by discontinuously spanning 25 years from 1985 to 2010. The model avoids local calibration through a national regression of parameters. A demand index is produced that predicts daily proportions of annual demand. Results show that the model is capable of identifying 90% of the spatial and temporal variability in water demand, based on daily index summations by month. This research is useful for reliability estimates of intermittent water supplies, such as rainwater harvesting.

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Lawrence, Jill. "Living comfortably with diversity: International students’ transition practices." Queensland Review 21, no. 2 (November 12, 2014): 217–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2014.27.

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Every year, over 30,000 international students study in regional Australia, in urban centres that lack the intercultural resources and cross-cultural literacies of metropolitan cities. The University of Southern Queensland (USQ) supports and brings together over 26,000 students studying both on campus and online, including a diverse international student population of 7,000 students. The university's enrolment of international on-campus students is the second highest in the Regional Universities Network, of which USQ is a member. This article analyses the experiences of international students as they encounter an unfamiliar Australian culture in the context of studying in Toowoomba, the regional city where USQ has its main campus. These students’ experiences of engaging, becoming familiar with and mastering new and unfamiliar cultural practices and academic literacies provides insight into the processes of acculturation that students undergo as they make their transition to life in regional Australia, both at university and in Queensland communities.

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Boughton, WC, and DM Freebairn. "Hydrograph recession characteristics of some small agricultural catchments." Soil Research 23, no. 3 (1985): 373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr9850373.

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Five-min recession constants were calculated for surface runoff and interflow using hydrographs of runoff from five 1-ha catchments at Greenmount near Toowoomba in south-east Queensland. The recession constants were converted to half-flow periods, i.e. the time required for flow rate to halve during an exponential recession. The half-flow periods of surface runoff and interflow on the 1 ha catchment are compared with published data from catchments of much larger size in New South Wales, and it is shown that the ratio of interflow half-flow period to surface runoff half-flow period does not vary much over six orders of magnitude of catchment size. Calculations of maximum rates of interflow and volumes of interflow storage show that both rates and volumes are possible in the plough depth of surface soil. The results support the evidence of interflow obtained earlier in unit hydrograph studies of runoff on these same catchments.

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Cotterill, PJ, RG Rees, GJ Platz, and R. Dill-Macky. "Effects of leaf rust on selected Australian barleys." Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 32, no. 6 (1992): 747. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ea9920747.

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The effects of epidemics of leaf rust (Puccinia hordei Otth.) on grain size and yield of some commercial Australian barley cultivars were determined in 3 field experiments at or near Toowoomba in 1985, 1989 and 1990. Yield was reduced by 38% for the highly susceptible cultivar, Gus, in a mild to moderate epidemic in 1985; cvv. Prior, Schooner, Clipper, Lara and Stirling lost between 10 and 20% yield and cvv. Corvette and Grimmett were unaffected. In a mild to moderate epidemic in 1989, leaf rust reduced the yield of Gus by 40%, and of Grimmett and Clipper by 17 and 12%, respectively, while Prior and Corvette were unaffected. In a moderate to severe epidemic in 1990, yield losses were 62% in Gus, 26% in Grimmett, 31% in Skiff and 14% in the slow-rusting cultivar, Athos. No losses were detected for Corvette or the slow-rusting cultivar, Koru. Loss of yield was largely attributable to reduction in grain size.

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Humphries, A. W., D. M. Peck, S. S. Robinson, T. Rowe, and K. Oldach. "A new biotype of bluegreen aphid (Acyrthosiphon kondoi Shinji) found in south-eastern Australia overcomes resistance in a broad range of pasture legumes." Crop and Pasture Science 63, no. 9 (2012): 893. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/cp12137.

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A new bluegreen aphid biotype (BGA, Acyrthosiphon kondoi Shinji) has been found in south-eastern Australia that causes severe damage and mortality in seedlings of previously resistant pasture legume cultivars. Populations of BGA collected at Urrbrae and Binnum, SA in 2009 caused 100% mortality in 29 cultivars of annual and perennial Medicago spp. and annual Trifolium spp. Delaying inoculation from the first trifoliate to the 6–8 trifoliate stage and removing susceptible genotypes from experiments had no impact on reducing mortality from 100% in previously resistant barrel medics. A half-sib family of lucerne from the SARDI breeding program has maintained resistance to the Urrbrae 2009 BGA. A detailed study of the virulence of BGA populations collected from Toowoomba (Qld), Tamworth, Howlong (NSW), Launceston (Tas.), Colebatch, Kimba, Urrbrae and Vivonne Bay (SA) in 2010–11 on 33 pasture legumes provides evidence of new virulent BGA being widespread, despite these populations causing less severe damage and mortality than the two populations collected in 2009.

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LOWRY, J. K., and H. E. STODDART. "The tryphosine genera Photosella gen. nov. and Tryphosella Bonnier, 1893 (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Lysianassoidea: Lysianassidae: Tryphosinae) in Australian waters." Zootaxa 2956, no. 1 (July 8, 2011): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2956.1.1.

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Within the lysianassid amphipod subfamily Tryphosinae the new genus Photosella is established with three included species: P. charlotteae (Lowry & Stoddart, 2009); P. miersi (Stebbing, 1888) and P. mucronata (Pirlot, 1936). The genus Tryphosella is rediagnosed and thirteen new Australian species are described: T. betka sp. nov.; T. bicheno sp. nov.; T. chinchilla sp. nov.; T. cooee sp. nov.; T. fortescue sp. nov.; T. freycinet sp. nov.; T. martrudan sp. nov.; T. rodondo sp. nov.; T. sorell sp. nov.; T. tathra sp. nov.; T. toowoomba sp. nov.; T. tuckanarra sp. nov. and T. wangaratta sp. nov. Tryphosella camela and T. orana are redescribed. There are now 19 species of Tryphosella known from Australian waters. The 79 species currently attributed to Tryphosella are carefully assessed: 40 species are confirmed as definitely Tryphosella; 24 species are considered as possibly in Tryphosella, but cannot be confirmed or denied because of insufficient evidence; and 15 species are excluded from the genus.

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Brodie, Ian M. "Stormwater reuse treatment requirements and screening-level risk assessment at two urban spatial scales." Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination 2, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 13–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wrd.2012.072.

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Monitoring was conducted at two urban spatial scales (lot-scale road surface and residential subdivision) to assess treatment requirements for non-potable stormwater reuse by irrigation. A screening-level risk assessment was also made focusing on metals, nutrients, cations and pesticides. Composite stormwater samples were taken at two locations in Toowoomba, Australia. Road runoff had higher treatment requirements for suspended solids but less for disinfection. No organic load or salinity reduction is generally needed, and pH adjustment is an occasional requirement for road runoff only. For both stormwaters, hardness was rated at very soft, which may potentially increase corrosion of irrigation equipment. Sodium adsorption ratios were also low indicating a limited risk of soil degradation under irrigation. Nutrient and metal concentrations also pose a low risk. High turbidity and low alkalinity of road runoff makes it easier to treat with coagulants compared to the subdivision runoff. Pesticide analysis of 121 compounds found road runoff concentrations below levels of detection, except for Simazine and Hexazinone. Although detectable, these pesticide concentrations were within Australian drinking water guidelines.

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Sim, Jean. "Queen's Parks in Queensland." Queensland Review 19, no. 1 (June 2012): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2012.3.

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Queen's Park in Maryborough is one of many public gardens established in the nineteenth century in Queensland: in Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba, Warwick, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville, Cairns and Cooktown. They were created primarily as places of horticultural experimentation, as well as for recreational purposes. They formed a local area network, with the Brisbane Botanic Garden and the Government Botanist, Walter Hill, at the centre – at least in the 1870s. From here, the links extended to other botanic gardens in Australia, and beyond Australia to the British colonial network managed through the Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG), Kew. It was an informal network, supplying a knowledge of basic economic botany that founded many tropical agricultural industries and also provided much-needed recreational, educational and inspirational opportunities for colonial newcomers and residents. The story of these parks, from the time when they were first set aside as public reserves by the government surveyors to the present day, is central to the history of urban planning in regional centres. This article provides a statewide overview together with a more in-depth examination of Maryborough's own historic Queen's Park.

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Brodie, I. M. "Prediction of stormwater particle loads from impervious urban surfaces based on a rainfall detachment index." Water Science and Technology 55, no. 4 (February 1, 2007): 49–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2007.094.

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This paper makes use of Non-Coarse Particle (NCP) data collected from three different impervious surfaces in Toowoomba, Australia. NCP is defined as suspended solids less than 500 μm in size. NCP loads (in mg/m2) were derived for 24 storms from a galvanized iron roof, a concrete car park and a bitumen road pavement. A scatter plot analysis was used to identify potential correlations between NCP loads and basic rainfall parameters such as rainfall depth and intensity. An exponential-type trend, consistent with many washoff models, was evident between load and average rainfall intensity for all surfaces. However, load data for some storms did not fit this general trend. Various indices, comprising different combinations of basic rainfall parameters, were evaluated as an alternative to rainfall intensity. A composite index, referred to as the Rainfall Detachment Index, was found to be better than average rainfall intensity in explaining a relationship between NCP load and storm rainfall characteristics. The selected rainfall index utilizes 6-minute rainfall intensities and is a variant of the well known Rainfall Erosivity Index (EI30) used for soil erosion estimation.

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MacKay, DA, and MA Whalen. "Geographic variation in ant defence of a widespread Australian euphorb." Australian Systematic Botany 9, no. 2 (1996): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sb9960235.

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Consequences of ant visitation to plants with extra-floral nectaries (EFNs) in the endemic Australian genus Adriana (Euphorbiaceae) were studied at two locations near Broome, WA and Toowoomba in south-eastern Queensland. At both localities, the prevailing weather conditions were very dry during the study, and ant and herbivore densities were low. The ant and herbivore faunas on adrianas differed between the Western Australian and Queensland sites. At Broome, sap-sucking insects were the most common herbivores seen on plants. Densities of these insects tended to increase when ants were experimentally excluded. At the Queensland study sites, leaf-chewing beetles were the most common herbivores. Although numbers of these insects did not increase significantly when ants were experimentally excluded from treatment branches, behavioural assays showed that the presence or absence of ants could significantly affect the beetles' residence time on plants. Attendance by an assemblage of several ant species apparently provides adrianas with a defence that can function in seasonally dry conditions, that acts primarily to protect young and developing tissues and that acts against a variety of insect herbivores.

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Johns, Michael R., Michael L. Harrison, Philip H. Hutchinson, and Peter Beswick. "Sources of nutrients in wastewater from integrated cattle slaughterhouses." Water Science and Technology 32, no. 12 (December 1, 1995): 53–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1995.0457.

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The generation of the nutrients, nitrogen and phosphorus, by various process areas of two large, integrated cattle slaughterhouses was studied to assist the better management of wastewater production and treatment. The Dinmore slaughterhouse, located near Ipswich, processes predominantly grass-fed cattle, while the Beef City slaughterhouse west of Toowoomba processes grain-fed cattle. Nitrogen in the wastewater streams largely originated from the rendering plant (50% of the total daily generation at Dinmore and 62% at Beef City), the decreased cattle bone process at Dinmore (22%) and the cattle holding yards at Beef City (32%). Phosphorus was generated primarily in the offal, paunch and tripe processing area at Dinmore (49%) and the holding yards at Beef City (57%). Nitrogen was present mostly as organic or ammonium nitrogen, whereas ortho-phosphate was the main form of phosphorus present in wastewater streams. Significant differences were found in nutrient generation between the two slaughterhouses, with the Dinmore plant releasing almost twice the quantity of nitrogen, and four times more phosphorus, per animal processed compared to the Beef City plant. These results will assist management in allocating resources aimed at cleaner production by minimising and removing nutrients in the wastewater.

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Macphail, Mike, and Dave Gibson. "Testing the Gippsland Basin zonation in northern Australia: palynostratigraphical analysis of a 23 Ma40Ar/39Ar dated claystone from Toowoomba, southeast Queensland." Palynology 38, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01916122.2013.865002.

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Roskies, D. M. "Southeast Asia - Literary Perspectives on Southeast Asia: Collected Essays by Peter Wicks. By Peter Wicks. Toowoomba: USQ Press, 1991. Pp. 81. Notes." Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 24, no. 2 (September 1993): 398–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022463400002836.

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Calbó, Josep, and Jeff Sabburg. "Feature Extraction from Whole-Sky Ground-Based Images for Cloud-Type Recognition." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 25, no. 1 (January 1, 2008): 3–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/2007jtecha959.1.

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Abstract Several features that can be extracted from digital images of the sky and that can be useful for cloud-type classification of such images are presented. Some features are statistical measurements of image texture, some are based on the Fourier transform of the image and, finally, others are computed from the image where cloudy pixels are distinguished from clear-sky pixels. The use of the most suitable features in an automatic classification algorithm is also shown and discussed. Both the features and the classifier are developed over images taken by two different camera devices, namely, a total sky imager (TSI) and a whole sky imager (WSC), which are placed in two different areas of the world (Toowoomba, Australia; and Girona, Spain, respectively). The performance of the classifier is assessed by comparing its image classification with an a priori classification carried out by visual inspection of more than 200 images from each camera. The index of agreement is 76% when five different sky conditions are considered: clear, low cumuliform clouds, stratiform clouds (overcast), cirriform clouds, and mottled clouds (altocumulus, cirrocumulus). Discussion on the future directions of this research is also presented, regarding both the use of other features and the use of other classification techniques.

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Hossain, Delwar, Don Gorman, John Williams-Mozely, and Darlene Garvey. "Bridging the Gap: Identifying Needs and Aspirations of Indigenous Students to Facilitate their Entry into University." Australian Journal of Indigenous Education 37, no. 1 (2008): 9–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1326011100016045.

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AbstractThe negative trend of enrolment of Indigenous students into tertiary study indicates gaps between their current achievement and knowledge levels and university requirements for admission. This study was designed to determine the perceived needs, attitudes and knowledge of Indigenous secondary school students when considering admission to university; investigate remedial strategies in order to make university a more attractive choice for Indigenous students; and ascertain the types of assistance and support the Indigenous students would like to receive in order to meet the enrolment requirements as well as completion of study at university.Focus groups were conducted with 50 Indigenous students in Years 10 to 12 within the Toowoomba District and surveys conducted with 30 first year Indigenous undergraduate and Indigenous Higher Education Pathways Program (IHEPP) students at the University of Southern Queensland.The findings of the research illustrated that the school students were not aware of the IHEPP and university programs. Scholarships and bursaries need to be developed and publicised. Tutorial assistance and learning support (e.g., assignment preparation, multicultural activities, childcare facilities, group accommodation) needs to be promoted. Furthermore, there is a need for the university to establish and maintain relationships with local Indigenous communities and understand the “cultural dimension” impacting on Indigenous students and their families.

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Osborne, Ray. "The industrial and engineering heritage of the floor malting industry in Queensland:: The former William Jones & Son (Maltsters), 1907 Malt House, Toowoomba." Australian Journal of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering 3, no. 1 (January 2005): 43–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14488388.2005.11464732.

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Phelan, Tim. "Using technology and innovation to deliver a step change in CSG workover rig services." APPEA Journal 58, no. 2 (2018): 733. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj17142.

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The well servicing industry is demanding technology solutions that continually improve safety and productivity performance. Through in-field experience, the Advantage Light Rig (ALR) has been developed, specifically designed to service existing coal seam gas (CSG) wells and install infrastructure in newly drilled wells, to significantly improve the safety and productivity performance of workover operations by reducing the time taken to deliver a workover from 5.5 to 2.5 days. Designed and built in Toowoomba, the ALR ‘factory-style’ rig has allowed additional efficiencies to be applied across operations from the training and capability of the staff who operate these rigs to the support operations that enable the rigs to perform, such as warehousing, workshop maintenance, transport, aviation, training and camp operations. In addition to improved rig technology and innovation, further cost efficiencies can be achieved by collecting real-time operational data. Using intelligent analytics to improve logistics management (rig and vehicle movements, workforce planning, supply chain) and asset utilisation (electronic tour reporting, engineering and maintenance, camp capacities) will reduce costs and improve services. New enabling technologies and innovations like the ALR (and the Advantage Light Rig Extra) and the intelligent analysis of real-time operational data help improve business performance by reconfiguring products and processes. Through a deliberate investment in innovation and by leveraging operational data, the resources industry will benefit from improved safety and productivity performance.

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Chhetri, Prem, Jonathan Corcoran, Shafiq Ahmad, and Kiran KC. "Examining spatio-temporal patterns, drivers and trends of residential fires in South East Queensland, Australia." Disaster Prevention and Management: An International Journal 27, no. 5 (November 5, 2018): 586–603. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dpm-09-2017-0213.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first is to examine the changing spatio-temporal patterns and regional trends in residential fires; and second is to investigate the likely association of fire risk with seasons, calendar events and socio-economic disadvantage. Design/methodology/approach Using spatial analytic and predictive techniques, 11 years of fire incident data supplied by the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services are mapped and analysed. Findings The results show significant spatial and temporal variability in the distribution of residential fires. Residential fire incidents are more likely to occur in the inner city and across more disadvantaged areas. Mapped outputs show some areas in Brisbane at a higher risk of fire than others and that the risk of fire escalates at specific times of the year, in neighbourhoods with a higher disadvantage, during major sporting events and school holidays. The residential fires showed strong seasonal periodicity. There is a continuous yet gradual increase in the number of fire incidents recorded for all five sub-regions within SEQ. Sunshine Coast experienced the highest upward trend whereas Toowoomba and West Moreton show the lowest increase. Originality/value This study provides an empirical basis to guide future operational strategies through targeting high fire risk areas at particular times. This, in turn, will help utilise finite resources in areas where and when they need and thus enable minimise emergency management costs.

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Winter, Bruce, and Richard Uebergang. "Grain Oats—An Alternative Winter Cereal for the Australian Sub-Tropics?" Proceedings 36, no. 1 (April 3, 2020): 143. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2019036143.

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Current production of oats for grain in Queensland is minor due to unsuitable varieties bred for different climates, and high disease pressure from leaf and stem rust late in the growing season. A range of grain oat breeding lines developed by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, was screened for leaf rust resistance and subsequently identified as potential grain oat cultivars for sub-tropical Queensland. The evaluation of these grain oat lines from Brazil may provide an opportunity to re-establish oats as a winter grain crop in central and southern Qld and northern NSW. Two replicated trials were established near Toowoomba in Qld and Grafton in NSW to assess grain yield and agronomic characteristics. These trials showed significant differences in grain yield within the set of Brazilian grain oat lines, compared with the Australian cultivars, showing the potential for selection of higher yielding lines. The Brazilian line coded UFRGS037031-3 was the highest yielding line in both high yielding conditions at Grafton and moisture stressed conditions at Wellcamp, and should be the focus of any further evaluation. The Brazilian grain oat lines have very strong resistance to leaf rust compared with Australian cultivars. Further research is needed to determine the potential demand for grain oats as a feed grain in Queensland and to determine the profitability of grain oats to farmers as an alternative winter cereal.

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Alam, Khorshed, and Sophia Imran. "The digital divide and social inclusion among refugee migrants." Information Technology & People 28, no. 2 (June 1, 2015): 344–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/itp-04-2014-0083.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors which influence refugee migrants’ adoption of digital technology and its relevance to their social inclusion in Australia. Design/methodology/approach – This research developed a conceptual framework keeping the “use” of digital technology as the centre-piece of the digital divide. The empirical data were derived from a series of focus group discussions with refugee migrants in an Australian regional city, Toowoomba in Queensland. Findings – There is a digital divide among refugee migrant groups and it is based on inequalities in physical access to and use of digital technology, the skills necessary to use the different technologies effectively and the ability to pay for the services. The opportunities to use digital technology could support the social inclusion of refugee migrant groups in the broader Australian community. Research limitations/implications – Further research is required to examine whether this digital divide is unique in the regional context or common to Australian society and to confirm factors that might contribute significantly to refugee migrants’ social inclusion. Originality/value – This paper determined the role digital technology can play in building social capital and hence social inclusion among refugee migrant groups. Many of the factors identified as influencing refugee migrants’ use of digital technology can inform the Australian government and the information and communication technology industry in devising supportive policies and plans to reduce the risk of social exclusion, alienation and marginalisation among refugee migrant groups.

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