Grazing Land Management : Sustainable and productive natural resource management

One of the key activities of Meat and Livestock Australia (MLA) is to ensure that beef producers are able to access and implement the latest research results and management recommendations for their enterprise. A basic understanding of ‘why’ and ‘how’ things happen is fundamental to adoption of any new technology. Northern graziers have identified a need for better grazing land management information, and this booklet has been written with this in mind. Leading researchers and extension officers in various specialty fields have developed a series of educational workshops and comprehensive training manuals, combined into a package called the EDGEnetwork. Much of the information contained in this booklet is extracted from the Grazing Land Management (GLM) manual, which was specifically designed to introduce producers to the principles and concepts that apply to the grazing lands of northern Australia. Planning is important for businesses and individuals; it provides a clearer focus on the goals and outcomes and enables recognition of achievements. This booklet encourages producers to consider the information presented in terms of their own overall businesses or property objectives

A pricing policy for fisheries agencies

The intent of this paper is to inform members of Standing Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture (SCFA) and the members of the Ministerial Council for Fisheries, Forestry and Aquaculture of the methods of fee setting that are currently applied by fisheries agencies in Australia, and alternative pricing policies for fisheries agencies

A pricing policy for fisheries agencies

The intent of this paper is to inform members of Standing Committee for Fisheries and Aquaculture (SCFA) and the members of the Ministerial Council for Fisheries, Forestry and Aquaculture of the methods of fee setting that are currently applied by fisheries agencies in Australia, and alternative pricing policies for fisheries agencies

The symbolic politics of belonging and community in peri-urban environmental disputes: the Traveston Crossing Dam in Queensland, Australia

This paper examines a recent dispute generated by the Queensland State Government proposal to build the Traveston Crossing Dam on the Mary River in southeast Queensland, Australia. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which interrelated issues of belonging, community identity, and social diversity were negotiated during the anti-dam campaign. As an unusual alliance of farmers, environmentalists, urban retirees, some Aboriginal people and others, it takes a view of the anti-Traveston Crossing Dam campaign as a fluid network of people and approaches the notion of community identity as the symbolic construction of similarity. Locally specific, the paper describes pertinent aspects of community politics in the context of rural socioeconomic change, and the mobilisation of heritage. With regard to local senses of belonging, it also discusses the involvement of Aboriginal people during the campaign. More broadly then, this paper attempts to make an ethnographic contribution to the study of environmental disputes and the politics of alliance in peri-urban areas of settler-descendant societies such as Australia