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    Australia’s innovation, science and technology environment: Providing a rationale for universities’ contributions to AUKUS Advanced Capabilities
    (United States Studies Centre, 2026-02-03) Dean, Peter; Soulard, Esther; Williams, Adeline
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    The function and authority of practice-based experts in an era of biodiversity crisis
    (2026-06-09) Montana, Jasper
    Introduction: In an era of intersecting planetary crises, demand for environmental expertise is at a high point. Environment agencies, universities, consultants and global environmental assessments combined with a range of new technological tools offer views on the planet that are unprecedented in human history. In this paper, I will examine the role of practice-based experts that work at the physical interface of people and nature as a feature of this rapid accumulation of expert insights. Methods: The paper will be based on a combination of prior ethnographic fieldwork with conservation projects and a desk-based review of the literature. Results: I will examine - through examples - the institutional conditions that shape the function and authority of practice-based experts for nature. These experts do not predominantly deal with numbers and words, rather they dig, plant, cut, kill or care for the non-human (or more-than-human) worlds that they inhabit. They span from conservation practitioners to recreational hunters, Indigenous peoples to domestic gardeners, and they rely on a combination of written and tacit knowledge that is acquired through experience of careful observation, informal experimentation and socialisation. Yet, given the high stakes of the biodiversity crisis and the boom of information and communication technologies, there are also moves to further formalise and standardise practice-based expertise around nature through textbooks, training and agendas such as ‘evidence-based conservation’. Conclusions: I will conclude with an assessment of the extent to which practice-based experts physically working in and with nature are recognized (when and where) as legitimate experts in an era of biodiversity crisis and what might need to change in order to offer them an enhanced role in identifying and implementing more transformative responses to the continuing loss of nature worldwide.
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    For green cities to become mainstream, we need to learn from local success stories and scale up: https://theconversation.com/for-green-cities-to-become-mainstream-we-need-to-learn-from-local-success-stories-and-scale-up-119933
    (2019-07-09) Alexandra, Jason
    Greening our cities has become one of the great global imperatives of the 21st century including to tackle climate change. And Australia’s sprawling car-based cities are gradually changing to embrace green or living infrastructure. Green cities bring together elements of architectural design and urban planning, often combining plants and built infrastructure to meet the needs of humans, such as our love of nature.
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    Interview with Merline Muldoon, recorded 23 September 1985
    Queensland Teachers' Union (1889-); Interviewer: Roberta Harriet Bonnin (1954-); Interviewee: Merline Agnes Muldoon (1935-2021)
    Tapes of Roberta Bonnin's interview with Merline Muldoon for the QTU publication "Dazzling Prospects". -- Transcript from publication's annotated index: Principal, Royal Children's Hospital School; Teenagers; Effect of parental influence; Teacher attitudes; Decision making/interaction; Union involvement; Branch member Mackay 1954-1958; Council representation; Original Union branches (Qld Assistants and East Moreton); Branch meetings; Principal One-Teacher School, Orkabie; Abolition of Slates 1960s; The teacher bonding system; Les Nash; Factions in Council - Masons and Catholics; Executive elections - 1960s compared to 1980s; Carmen Smith; Mary Kelly; Prac teaching inspections; Eight week wonders - emergency teacher scheme; Dress code for women teachers; ATF; Women's lobby groups; Marian Parry; Women and superannuation; Women's Co-ordinator position; Teacher Accommodation issue; Female Inspectors in country towns; Career vs marriage - supporting dependents.

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