Managing Motorways and Urban Arterials in Australia: Country Report for Australia

Urban wildlife issues in Australia

Wildlife is common in urban areas of Australia. Human residents welcome most species of wildlife, and frequently design gardens or provide food to attract wildlife. A diverse range of problems caused by wildlife often creates controversy and calls for action to be taken by government wildlife agencies. Problems may threaten human health and safety or be expensive to rectify. Resolution of these...

Cross-Country Studies of Unemployment in Australia

*This paper is the result of work being undertaken as part of a collaborative research program entitled ‘Unemployment: Economic Analysis and Policy Modelling’. The project is generously supported by the Australian Research Council and the following collaborative partners: Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services, Commonwealth Department of Employment, Workplace Relations and Sma...

The Australia urban research gateway

The $20m Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network (AURIN) project (www.aurin.org.au) began in July 2010. AURIN has been tasked with developing a secure, Web-based virtual environment (e-Infrastructure) offering seamless, secure access to diverse, distributed and extremely heterogeneous data sets from numerous agencies with an extensive portfolio of targeted analytical and visualization ...

Australia: the healthiest country by 2020.

In April 2008, the Australian Government established the National Preventative Health Taskforce to develop a National Preventative Health Strategy by June 2009. The Strategy will provide a blueprint for tackling the burden of chronic disease currently caused by obesity, tobacco and excessive consumption of alcohol. The Taskforce has produced a discussion paper, Australia: the healthiest country...

Biological and Fisheries Data for Managing Deep Sea Crabs in Western Australia Final FRDC Report