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Indigenous Interests in Tropical Rivers: Research & Management Issues

The report was requested by Land and Water Australia (LWA) as a scoping study to provide information for their new Tropical Rivers Program.

Pathways to Good Practice in Regional NRM governance

The role of agriculture in natural resource management, economic growth and community life

About the Audit

The National Land & Water Resources Audit (the Audit) collates data and information on the status of Australia’s natural resources and contextual social and economic information. The information is used to assist in identifying Australia’s natural resource management priorities and will be used to support the evaluation of current and future natural resource management (NRM) investments. The Audit is working with all (more)...

How Woolgrowers Manage native vegetation & biodiversity on New England wool properties

In 2003, the Land, Water & Wool Northern Tablelands Project (NSW) conducted a survey of woolgrowers in southern New England.

The survey aimed to find out what woolgrowers thought about biodiversity in relation to wool production, how woolgrowers manage their farms in ways that affect biodiversity, and what it would take for them to adopt management practices that would enhance biodiversity.

National Program for Sustainable Irrigation Projects 2007-2010

An overview of NPSI Phase 2 Goals and research and development projects.

Land Water and Wool Case Study: Rick Robertson, Bairnsdale

An East Gippsland farm three kilometers inland from the coast isn’t a place one would normally expect to find a paddock of Old Man saltbush, but that doesn’t worry Rick Robertson. Rick is just pleased to have found the solution to a perennial shortage of summer and autumn feed for his 7000 Merino sheep. Eight years of tough seasons meant things had to change on the 1000 hectare fine wool Merino stud, ‘Gracemere’, that Rick and Jenny Robertson and their three daughters (more)...

Land & Water Australia Senior Research Fellowship 2008

This is a promotional item that informs people about the Senior Research Fellowship. It also gives a short biography of the current Fellows.

Vital role for Australian irrigation

Discusses irrigation in Australia in the context of global food security, decreasing water resources and the contribution of research and development to innovation.

Climag Magazine 16

With climate change predictions pointing to Australia’s climate becoming even more variable, farmers are looking for more accurate seasonal forecasts that can be interpreted to help them better make decisions about planting, sowing, harvesting and stockin