Hidden Queensland

Edited by Julianne Schultz

Queensland is the new centre of political gravity in Australia. Twenty years ago it was a repressive and corrupt place out of step with the rest of the nation. Hidden Queensland explores the most remarkable transition in Australian political history: in the people, the politics and the policies - and also exposes the lingering impact of secrets. The election of Kevin Rudd as prime minister signalled a momentous change in Australia - political power moved north for the first time. As he said, ’You can take the boy out of Nambour, but you can’t take Nambour out of the boy.’ This edition explains how this happened and what it means for Australia.

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Water Management

Issued by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.

This handbook provides guidance on the processes required to identify the risks (both technical and management) relevant to a particular mining operation, how these might be mitigated, and how this can be supported by the necessary monitoring and audit systems that provide confidence in reporting of activities and outcomes.


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Cyanide Management

Issued by the Department of Resources, Energy and Tourism.

This handbook addresses cyanide management from a sustainable development perspective and updates the principles and procedures of cyanide use outlined in the Best Practice Environmental Management Cyanide Management booklet (Environment Australia,2003). It also relates to sustainable development issues as discussed in the Mineral Council of Australia's Enduring Value (MCA2004).. - Introduction

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The New Taxonomy

Edited by Quentin D. Wheeler.

"The book examines the efforts of several international groups to catalog the world's biodiversity and make it accessible. An answer to Julian Huxley's "The New Sytematics", the book signals the beginning of an upward trajectory of taxonomy to meet the unprecedented challenges of the biodiversity crisis" - Cover


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Water quality of the Great Barrier Reef

by Glenn De’ath and Katharina Fabricius.

This report to the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority provides technical background information and statistical data analysis for defining improved water quality guidelines trigger values for the Breat Barrier Reef Water Quality Guidelines. - Executive summary.


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Land for Wildlife Queensland

Issued by Land for Wildlife.

"This publication celebrates the people and achievements of Land for Wildlife and other more formal covenants. It demonstrates a great diversity both in the properties involved and of those who participate.

Land for Wildlife is about people as much as habitat." - Forward


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The limits to travel

by David Metz

[This book]examines the inadequacies inherent in the current thinking [about travel], along with the resulting problems, such as pollution, congestion and noise. He highlights the impact of the rapid increase in car use in China and India, and explores the general travel experinece, public vs private transport, and transport technology. In considering to what extent travel could be avoided, he arrives at a new paradigm to underpin sustainable transport policies..."- back cover

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