Livelihoods in desert Australia

CITES & Livelihoods

Endemic Melioidosis in Residents of Desert Region after Atypically Intense Rainfall in Central Australia, 2011

After heavy rains and flooding during early 2011 in the normally arid interior of Australia, melioidosis was diagnosed in 6 persons over a 4-month period. Although the precise global distribution of the causal bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei remains to be determined, this organism can clearly survive in harsh and even desert environments outside the wet tropics.

“Outside the Institute there is a Desert”: The Tenuous Trajectories of Medical Research in Interwar Australia

Throughout the fin de siècle, medical research institutes increasingly hallmarked “modernity” across industrialized nations and their colonies. While the reification of these “veritable laboratory Xanadus” as insular centres for pure science has recently been questioned, the absence of such facilities in Australia prior to the First World War had enduring ramifications for public, political and...

Governance and Sustainable Livelihoods

Promoting Adolescent Livelihoods