White Australia

Creating White Australia: new perspectives on race, whiteness and history

Elizabeth Rudd FutureNous Australia Robyn White Australia . 191 Alfred Deakin Lectures 2010 : Brave New World ? The Climate Change Challenge

Climate change is a familiar issue. It is an issue where we can observe the ways societies and their leaders frame and respond to wicked problems. If we believe the predictions of the vast majority of qualified scientists the climate problem has the potential to devastate life on the planet and civilisation as we know it. The Alfred Deakin Lecture Series – held in Melbourne and Bendigo, Austral...

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Vitamin D3 and 25-Hydroxyvitamin D3 Content of Retail White Fish and Eggs in Australia

Dietary vitamin D may compensate for inadequate sun exposure; however, there have been few investigations into the vitamin D content of Australian foods. We measured vitamin D₃ and 25-hydroxyvitamin D₃ (25(OH)D₃) in four species of white fish (barramundi, basa, hoki and king dory), and chicken eggs (cage and free-range), purchased from five Australian cities. Samples included local, imported an...

Genetic relatedness reveals total population size of white sharks in eastern Australia and New Zealand

Conservation concerns exist for many sharks but robust estimates of abundance are often lacking. Improving population status is a performance measure for species under conservation or recovery plans, yet the lack of data permitting estimation of population size means the efficacy of management actions can be difficult to assess, and achieving the goal of removing species from conservation listi...