Skip to Navigation

Land and Water Australia Corporate

Productive sustainability of land and water resources at risk

The decision to abolish Land & Water Australia placed the long-term productive sustainability of Australia’s land and water resources at risk at a time the nation faces the converging challenges of climate change, water availability, global food security and declining productivity growth, the Chairman of Land & Water Australia, Ms Bobbie Brazil, said today.

Return on Investment

Portfolio Return on Investment Case Studies 3rd Edition Portfolio Return on Investment Methodology Land & Water Australia has been developed a comprehensive approach to estimating the Return on Investment (ROI) from its research and development (R&D) portfolio. The key driving question was (more)...

Directors

Anthea Tinney Chair (non-executive) Ms Tinney is a former deputy secretary of the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, and prior to retiring in 2008, had a distinguished career in the Australian Public Service including a period as the head of the Cabinet Office in the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. She is an experienced Chair and Board member, and was recently appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs as the Chair of the Australian (more)...

Our Vision

Our Vision Australia’s landscapes, climate, soils and biota are unique. We are isolated on an ancient continent and have to develop our own solutions to our own problems. Our natural resources are invaluable and irreplaceable and Land & Water Australia is working to ensure that they are sustained for future generations of Australians. We are a national organisation dedicated solely to investing in and managing R&D (more)...

Privacy Statement and Disclaimer

Disclaimer The information contained on this site has been electronically published by Land & Water Australia to assist public knowledge and discussion and to help improve the sustainable management of land, water and vegetation. Where technical information has been prepared by or contributed by authors external to the Corporation, readers should contact the author(s), and conduct their own enquiries, before making use of that information. Information accessed by hyperlinks to sites (more)...
Thumbnail cover image

Land & Water Australia Annual Operational Plan 2008 - 2009

Knowledge for managing Australian landscapes

The Getting of Knowledge

a guide to funding and managing applied research

This document is the product of a two week ‘writing sabbatical’ undertaken in October 2006 by Andrew Campbell.

It attempts to capture, distil and make more accessible some of the knowledge we have gained in Land & Water Australia