61. The Native Tribes of South-East Australia.

South East Australia Wind Power Study

Managing health impacts of heat in South East Queensland, Australia.

Heatwaves kill more people than any other natural hazard in Australia. Current literature on managing health risks of heatwaves highlights the importance of implementing urban planning measures, and engaging with vulnerable groups on a local level to better understand perceptions of risk and tailor health protection measures. This paper reviews arrangements to reduce heatwave health risks in So...

Diatoms as indicators of wetland salinity in the Upper South East of South Australia

Wetland degradation in the Upper South East of South Australia is an urgent management concern. Scant recent environmental data is available for the region and long term monitoring data is lacking. Usually a palaeoecological analysis is able to reveal environmental change in the medium to long term past. However, the region is not conducive to palaeoecological investigation due to a fluctuating...

Rural Landownership in South East Australia since European Occupation

This paper provides historical context for contemporary discourses on landownership, notably the changing scale of absentee landownership and foreign ownership since 1849. Trends in landownership since European occupation of one of the most agriculturally productive regions in south east Australia, the Lachlan River catchment, are examined at regional, shire and district scales. Evolution of te...

Adapting to climate change in South East Queensland, Australia

There is growing recognition that regionally scaled responses will be pivotal in adapting to climate change (e.g. Kirshen et al. 2008; Reyer et al. 2012). This recognition is echoed in South East Queensland (SEQ), where rapid population growth and coastal urban centres have made it one of Australia’s most vulnerable regions and a focus for climate adaptation research. As a collection of papers,...